Word: brigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riots, racism and guard brutality used to be facts of life at U.S. military prisons from the Marine brig at Camp Pendleton, Calif., to the Army's Long Binh jail in Viet Nam. Last year a blue-ribbon panel of civilian penologists visited 23 Army lockups, found most of them dismal, and issued a critical 133-page report. Aware of the problems, the Pentagon urged sweeping reforms...
...CAMP PENDLETON, where Marine guards reportedly used to beat hog-tied inmates, the brig population has been halved to less than 500, and a new $2,500,000 facility will open in August. Captain Sam Saxton, an assistant warden, has helped improve the guards' caliber. "When we see a guard going sour," says Saxton, "he's out of here in 72 hours...
...Nghi, forward command post of the South Vietnamese 1st Corps and 1st Infantry Division near the Laotian border, Brig. Gen. Pham Van Phu, division commander, said the entire 1st Regiment of his outfit had been pulled out of operation and returned to Vietnam...
...existence of the pipeline was disclosed in Senate testimony before the Committee on November 18, 1970, by Brig. Gen. William John Evans, though the details of the diameter and length were not revealed. This pipeline would appear to have played an important part in the North Vietnamese troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, supplying an estimated 3,000 six-wheel heavy Russian trucks with fuel. The Air Force disclosed that within the last two and one-half years the portion of the trail open to trucks in the dry season has been extended from...
...Brig. Gen. Leroy J. Manor, one of the raiders' commanders, estimated that the camp had been evacuated as long as three weeks ago. He dismissed the possibility of a security leak...