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...County Jail in Billerica, where they stayed until 7 p. m. Bond was posted for all three-$2500 for Olson, and $250 for Nies-but, before they left the jailhouse, the Boston police serverd them with the Boston English warrants. The police then took them to the District 10 cellblock in Roxbury Crossing...
...admitted as prisoners for a day at the nearby Maryland House of Correction. As extra guards stood by unobtrusively, they were brought through the gates in handcuffs, stripped, showered, and supplied with blue prison shirts and brown pants. Then they were clapped into small cells in the cacophonous main cellblock. Prison officials laid on the full treatment, later declared one white-haired judge to be suffering from "suicidal tendencies" and sent him to an isolation cell. There he was protectively stripped of his belt, shoes, glasses and pen, and was made to eat his dinner of ham and black-eyed...
...Nashville, 300 militant mourners marched up to the walls of Tennessee's state penitentiary to chant We Shall Overcome just out of earshot of King's assassin, James Earl Ray, who is in solitary confinement inside a maximum-security cellblock...
...prison whistle shrieks. Clang! go the steel cellblock doors...
...horse-drawn Russian army cart creaked to a halt before the cement cellblock at Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial...