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- 1 2 "Alabama Department of Corrections". doc.state.al.us. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ↑ Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories, Hastings Hornell Hart, 1922, page 30
- ↑ "Alabama Department of Corrections". doc.state.al.us. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
