http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/06/bbc-revisits-the-dark-world-of-the-old-arkansas-prison-system Comments On: BBC revisits the dark world of the old Arkansas prison system by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:39:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by clay pigeon]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:12:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:16:48 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012nt77
Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:03:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
"The Jan. 1, 1913, issue of the Arkansas Gazette informed Arkansans that the state prosecutors were up in arms over outgoing Gov. George W. Donaghey’s recent pardoning of 360 convicts. This wholesale emptying of the prisons was Donaghey’s final attempt to put an end to the state’s decades of leasing out convicts-which often resulted in horrible mistreatment, virtual peonage and rampant corruption. Donaghey’s actions are today seen as an act of courage, but at the time the Arkansas Prosecutors Association had no trouble condemning the governor’s actions as “an insult.”
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:45:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
For you too young to know about the Tucker telephone it was a torture device. A generator from an old wall-mounted crank phone had two wires coming from it. One wire was attached to prisoner's genitals, the other to his anus. When cranked the generator sent an excruciating current through those parts of his body.

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Only from the dark bowels of Ark's Baptist culture could something as evil as the Ark prison system emerge.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:23:48 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Murton

For you too young to recall the Tucker telephone it was a torture device. It used the hand crank generator from an early telephone. The two wires coming from the generator were attached to a prisoner's anus and genitals. When the generator was cranked an excruciating electric current passed thru the prisoner's body at those points of attachment.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:16:29 -0600 Arkansas Times