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Graffiti at the Jail

  • Writer: Lawrence Lore
    Lawrence Lore
  • Oct 15, 2024
  • 1 min read

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Albert Akers, an employee of Roy Bolles, seemed to be enjoying his work as he put the finishing touches on one of the door latches in the Lawrenceville City Jail January 1968.


If you look closely, you can see scratched into the cell wall in the background "Only Fools Go to Jail."

 
 

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