Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 3, August 24, 1946 Page: 27
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Problem offenders on the Wynne Farm
are confined to unlighted solitary cells
which are piped for tear gas. The
Texas Week photographer was unable
to focus his camera in this department.
Wiping his chemical-made tears away,
he heard an inmate whisper: "We get
a dose of gas every few hours. It's not
ordinary gas. It's concentrated."
Inmates who are not being "punished"
with solitary confinement sleep in crowd-
ed, noisy dirty dormitories known as"tanks" (see picture).
In dramatic contrast to the filthy farm
units is The Walls, where cell blocks are
equipped with adequate heating, run-
ning water and lights ; shops and fac-
tories are being brought up to date;
there is a modern printing plant, shoe
factory, a plant which manufactures all
of Texas' automobile license plates, and
a modern psychopathic and general hos-
pital. Guards at the Wynne farm say
authorities do not try to give psycho-TEXAS WEEK 27
24 AUGUST 46
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Texas Week, Inc. Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 3, August 24, 1946, periodical, August 24, 1946; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth586553/m1/27/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Private Collection of the Raymond B. Holbrook Family.