Word: alcatraz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (334 pp.)-Thomas E. Gaddis-Random House...
...that proud and querulous Robert Stroud often got prison bureaucrats sorely annoyed at him by insisting on his right to carry on scientific work in his cell. In 1942, exasperated officials put a halt to his researches: they sent him, in handcuffs and leg irons, from Leavenworth to tougher Alcatraz. He is there now, aged 65, still in solitary confinement. He has spent more time in solitary-39 years-than any other federal prisoner in U.S. history...
...certain points of your Dec. 6 story on ... William Remington . . . The murder of Remington can be ascribed solely to the misadministration of the various correctional institutions and penitentiaries under the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Beatings, sluggings and murder are the order of the day in Danbury, Lewisburg, Atlanta, Chillicothe, Alcatraz, and wherever the prison system has an establishment. These crimes are hush-hushed . . . J. Parnell Thomas came closer to describing accurately the situation [in LIFE, Oct. 4] than anyone I know. It is a well-known axiom in prison that "nobody gives a damn about us" ... It is high time...
Died. James A. (for Aloysius) Johnston, 79, longtime (1934-48) warden of Alcatraz prison; of a liver infection; in San Francisco. Scholarly Penologist Johnston tamed riotous San Quentin during his 1913-25 tenure, had to abandon "reconstructive" penology when he took over in 1934 as first warden of Alcatraz, which had been deliberately established as a fortress to hold the meanest mobsters in gangdom (Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly...
...lean, sad-eyed son of a North Carolina Baptist preacher, Paul Crouch drifted away from the South at 21. He joined the U.S. Army, preached Communism to his buddies at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, was court-martialed and sent to Alcatraz. After serving three years there, he was dressed out in 1928 and turned to full-time work for Communism. In 1942 he broke with the party...