This photograph shows inmates, Asa Coleman, prisoner #7771 and George Shanklin, prisoner #8555. Asa Coleman was received at the Kansas State Penitentiary on May 5, 1896 from Oklahoma for forgery. Inmate George Shanklin was received at the penitentiary on May 13, 1898 from Wilson County, Kansas for rape.
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Asa Coleman and George Shanklin, prisoners 7771 and 8555