The Entire Story of Cummins Farm — The Bodies Buried in Arkansas’s Prison Fields
On the morning of January 29, 1968, a 59-year-old lifer named Reuben Johnson stood in a treeless pasture at Cummins Farm in Lincoln County, Arkansas, and pointed at the ground. He told the men with shovels exactly where to dig. Watching him was Tom Merton, the newly appointed superintendent and the first professionally trained penologist … Read more