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From Chain Gangs to Chain Stores Sugar Land’s storied prison farm gives way to suburban sprawl. By PATSY SIMS Clockwise from left: Entrance gate to the old Imperial Cemetery, 1995; Central State Farm’s Two Camp building, circa 1980, before recent renovations; Dog Sgt. Gary Meduna and an unidentified “dog boy” accompany tracking dogs on a practice manhunt in the mid-1990s. it photos courtesy Patsy Sims unless otherwise noted 8 THE TEXAS OBSERVER JUNE 13, 2008