Kentucky Penitentiary Abandoned
Collection
Metadata
Title: Kentucky Penitentiary Abandoned
Description: Flood waters forced evacuation of the inmates of the Kentucky State Prison at Frankfort, but not before prisoners rioted. Here guards are patrolling the prison camp set up in tents outside the prison.
Source: Associated Press Photographs
Date: 1937-01
Format: photograph
Type: image
Identifier: 2012A021-002
Creator: unknown
Location: f.1
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Citation
unknown, “Kentucky Penitentiary Abandoned,” Digital Collections, accessed July 17, 2025, https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/items/show/3507.