Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mary Wilkins, deputy warden, urges self respect."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Getting acquainted with her new family in Kiowa is Tasha, an 11 month old Cambodian orphan, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Gary Miller and their sons, Darin 8, and Stacy, 4."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Barbara Looney passes time in sewing room. (Among 56 women incarcerated at McAlester, serving one-year sentence)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wind-whipped smoke and flames of a prison blaze that gutted the Oklahoma State Penitentiary trusty dormitory."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the states' narrowly misses a chance for freedom when the State P a r d o n and parole Board votes 3-2 to deny clemency for convicted slayer Gerald Pate."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Perhaps symbolic of prison life is a flower in a glass beside barred windows."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The maximum security unit at the State penitentiary, known as "Tge Rock," looks like this these days as inmates go about the task of cleaning up after the unit was burned out by convicts last October. A federal grand jury in Muskogee is currently investigating gassings and other incidents involved in the violence which was flared from time to time in these punishment cells."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "McAlester death row inmates gather around Corrections Department information officer Edward Benedict for a discussion during a recent visit."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Inmates are allowed time with television."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "dormitory room"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Looking into the clothing walkway from the electric chair walkway."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "sewing room"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The power generator which provides the charge to the elctric chair at Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester has not been turned on for eight years."