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My mother and me, 1969Sister of Charity on her bike in front of Carville's power plant. Photo by Terri Fensel.As featured in Entrepreneur magazine, 1991, © Bruce KeyesElla Bounds’ wheelchair © Paul Johansen/iguanaphoto.comPrison-side courtyard at Carville. Photo by Terri Fensel.Me, in Oxford, Mississippi, just after the fall that left scars on my forehead, circa 1961Ella Bounds meandering the corridor in her antique, hand-cranked wheelchair. Photo by Vern Evans.Ella Bound's hand on the crank of her wheelchair. Photo by Vern EvansStained glass window behind the leprosy patients’ pews in the Catholic Chruch © Ken MurphyOak tree that separates the colony from the Mississippi River Levee. Photo by Ken Murphy.Ella Bounds and me, Carville, 1996 © C. RiemannCarville's corridors. Over two miles of covered walks guard the perimeter of the colony. Photo by Vern Evans.Me and my grandfather Harry, who tried to teach me the value of a dollar, circa 1962My mother and me in Scotland, circa 1969. She told me amazing stories of our Scottish heritage to convince me to wear a kilt.
My high school senior portrait. Note bangs to cover forehead scarsCarville cemetery where some tombstones are marked with aliases. Photo by Terri Fensel.Magge, me, Little Neil and inmate Steve Read (in clown suit) at Kids' Day celebrationA garden lined with un-returnable Coke bottles (circa 1950). Photo Courtesy of Nat'l Hansen's Disease Museum.Carville resident Jimmy Harris on his three-wheeled bike. Photo by Terri Fensel.

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Rationale for the Bureau of Prisons leaving Carville Source: Baton Rouge AdvocateReport of lawsuit filed by Carville inmate re: exposure to leprosyA sketch of my room layout, as it appeared in a letter I wrote to my familyAn excerpt from my letters about Stan & Sarah (I had their hometown/nationality wrong)Story from The Baton Rouge Advocate where the BOP denied the stabbing was linked to John Gray's deathAn excerpt from one of my letters about DocAn excerpt from my journal about DocBrochure for the Kid's Day celebration--when inmates' children were allowed inside the colonyMarica Gaudet's description of the residents' Mardi Gras float celebrating the oust of the Bureau of Prisons. Source: Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America, Marcia GaudetHazard pay was still an issue for Carville employees as late as the 1990sCarville escapees argued in federal court that time shouldn't be added to their sentence for escape since Carville wasn't a real prison.From the Southern Medical Journal: Three recent cases of leprosy discovered in the Mississippi Delta. All had contact with ArmadilloThe Convict/Leprosy Patient experiment as described by Cassandra White in a scholarly paperWarden's response to my request to start an inmate Toastmaster's Club. God, I think Link may have been right.

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