to death and executed on January 6, 2004, for the murder of Mary Lou York. Eric Nance, sentenced to death and executed on November 28, 2005, for the murder of Julie Heath. Ledell Lee, sentenced to death and executed on April 20, 2017, for the murder of Debra Reese. He was the first person executed in Arkansas in 12 years. Jack Harold Jones, serial killer, and Marcel Wayne Williams, sentenced to death and executed on April 24, 2017. It was the first double execution in the United States since 2000. Kenneth Williams, serial killer, sentenced to death and executed on April 27, 2017. Non Death Row Kenneth Nicely, sentenced to life for the 1958 murder of a police officer and Arkansas longest-serving prisoner. Bruce Jackson's prison photography In the 1960s, ethnographer Bruce Jackson began taking photographs of prisoners in Texas for his research on African-American work songs in prison. Jackson had become friends with the assistant warden of Ramsey prison farm at the time, T. Don Hutto. When Hutto became Arkansas commissioner of corrections in 1971, their friendship provided Jackson with access to prisoners resulting in numerous publications. In 2010, Jackson's photo collection from the Cummins Unit was exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York and at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. See also Trusty system Gates v. Collier, 1974 court decision abolishing the trusty system List of law enforcement agencies in Arkansas List of United States state correction agencies List of U.S. state prisons References General "The Law: The Shame of the Prisons". Time. January 18, 1971. "New Chapter in Horror". The Nation. January 10, 1972. "One Year of Prison Reform". The Nation. "Prison History and Events 2011-1838" "Prisons: Hell in Arkansas". Time. February 9, 1968. Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, 2005 film Bruce Jackson, Killing Time: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary. Cornell University Press, 1977. Specific Further reading - PDF External links Cummins Unit. Arkansas Department of Corrections. "Cummins Unit". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. 1902 establishments in Arkansas Prisons in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Lincoln County, Arkansas Capital punishment in Arkansas Women's prisons in the United States Execution sites in the United States