Remember when... a prison break led to prison reform

Details: After waiting in line with "something like 4,000 folks," according to TIME Magazine, a woman whispered to the first lady that the men — identified in one report as Booker T. Cary, MacArthur Davis, Douglas May and Henry Lewis Jackson — were escaped convicts. And one of them was her son.

• The staunch segregationist governor invited the men, all of whom were Black, inside and heard accusations of broken toilets, overcrowded barracks and bored guards threatening to shoot inmates in the legs.

Maddox — best known for using an ax handle to run off Black people from his Home Park restaurant — called for "the most thorough investigation in the history of the state," per an April 17, 1967 article in the Macon News.

• "A [n-word] will tell a lie," R.T. Bridges, the warden of the county-run camp, told the newspaper. "Let 'em investigate. Send the governor. I'm ready for him."

Wilkinson weeks later opted to shut down the camp and transfer prisoners elsewhere rather than pay for upgrades. In the following months, state officials would order other county camps to make improvements.