Alabama Correctional Camp (P) was set up in 1934 to deal with prison overcrowding in a number of Alabama city jails. After Jake Featherston was elected President in 1933, he had active Whig and Radical Liberal Party politicians arrested on trumped-up charges, quickly filling up the jails.[1] The camp was set up in the Black Belt near the town of Fort Deposit some 140 miles south of Birmingham. Jefferson Pinkard was appointed assistant warden and used his experiences running a POW camp during the Mexican Civil War to help with the camp layout and operations.[2]
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- ↑ Return Engagement, pgs. 44-45, hc.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 104.










