I liked the original book Cool Hand Luke better than the movie version. Author Donn Pearce was himself a prisoner in Florida correction system before he wrote the novel. In the book version Luke was arrested on Florida Avenue in Tampa for stealing the parking meters outside a bar he’d just gotten plastered in on pay day. The road prison Luke was in in the book was in rural Lake county Florida about 60 miles north of Tampa. Road prisons used to be big in Florida…I don’t think there are any left…if there are there can’t be many left.