Oklahoma State Penitentiary
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The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on 1,556 acres. Opened in 1908 with 50 inmates in makeshift
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when
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…The prison was mentioned in: The Grapes of Wrath and in the Woody Guthrie song The Ballad Of Tom Joad, which was based on the book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, a nonfiction…
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