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Concord Reformatory

    Color photo highlights the wall-enclosed prison facility, shown in the left-to-right center of the image, in its woodland location, with a river flowing just beyond the rear wall. The rest of the photo shows some unidentifiable low buildings enclosed by woods.

    Contemporary aerial view of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) at Concord, on Route 2 in Concord, Massachusetts; before 1955 named the Massachusetts Reformatory at Concord, where Malcolm Little was incarcerated for 15 months between 1947 and 1948. Here, influenced by family members, Malcolm had the first inklings of his conversion to the version of Islam practiced by the Nation of Islam

    2015
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    Nick Allen, via “Massachusetts Correctional Institution–Concord,” Wikipedia,