On This Date in Minnesota History: August 10

August 10, 1887 – The first issue of the “Prison Mirror,” the newspaper of the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater, was published on this date. Bank robber Cole Younger was associate editor.¹

It was the first publication in America produced solely by inmates from inside a prison, and at 127 years and counting it is the oldest continuously published prison journal in America.<sup>2

1</sup>Minnesota History Center; Minnesota History Timeline

²http://www.thenation.com/article/180381/can-free-press-flourish-behind-bars#

Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain 2-21-2013, 

as long as acknowledgement included.  

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