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James Jackson said legislation stems in part from a hunger strike now in its 14th day, among ten prisoners in the solitary-confinement unit Cellblock 10 in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole...
Most of the striking prisoners in Cellblock 10 had been placed on an "alternate meal plan" of' cold sandwiches and fruit after they had repeatedly flung their hot meals at the guards, Joseph Landolfi, public relations representative at Walpole, said yesterday. He said prisoners were creating safety and sanitation problems for guards by also pelting them with food containers filled with human excrement...
...prisoners have presented no formal demands and have not told guards they are on a hunger strike, Landolfi said. "We don't view as demands" prisoners' requests for better food and more access to facilities, he said, adding that Cellblock 10 inmates have visiting and exercise privileges and access to a law library...
Prisoners are placed in solitary confinement for attacking guards or fellow inmates, Landolfi said. About 60 prisoners live in Cellblock...
...surface--in its jokes and the general tone of its dialogue--John Herbert's Fortune and Men's Eyes revolves around homosexuality in prison life. But the play is really about the exigencies of power relations inside "the joint." Homosexuality, in Herbert's imaginary cellblock, just happens to represent the medium of influence. So when Queenie, one of the cellmates, throws his head back effeminately and announces, "The General (meaning the warden) has had me all over his carpet," he means more than the physical act--he is also implying that he pulls political strings. And when Smitty...