“A Journey to the Other Side of the World”: Ohio State Penitentiary, 1899–1901.

The article describes how, in the early 1900s, offenders of federal crimes in Indian and Oklahoma Territories were often sent to Ohio State Penitentiary to serve their sentences of twelve months or more. It mentions about Alphonso "Al" Jennings, who was convicted in 1899 for a botched train robbery, and details Jennings' subsequent attempt to flee and his eventual capture.