One block from the courthouse is the former Fayette County Jail, whose most infamous inmates included Raymond Hamilton and Gene O'Dare, members of Bonnie and Clyde's gang captured after a robbery in nearby Carmine. The T-shaped, rough-faced limestone building with a crenellated tower over a classical pediment includes a jailer's quarters and cells. Jim Flournoy was sheriff at the time when the work of Houston's investigative reporter Marvin Zindler led to the closing of the infamous Chicken Ranch, a nearby brothel that operated from 1905 to 1973. When a modern justice center opened in 1985, the old jail sat empty for ten years and reopened as the Chamber of Commerce and includes memorabilia and artifacts from the old jail.