Word: celling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical enough urban complaint, but the return address was a surprise: 245 Whalley Avenue, the site of the county jail. Signed by the residents of Cell-block C, the letter was written by an inmate serving time on a drug conviction, who said his wife was afraid to visit him because of crime in the prison area. "If you are not safe entering and leaving a correctional center," lamented the cons, "where are you safe?" City officials agreed: they increased lighting in the area and beefed up police patrols...
...shortly after V-J day and at a military hospital in Kentucky a damaged veteran sits in a padded cell. Or rather he squats and occasionally hops, knees together, fingers laced behind his back, arms flapping. Understandably puzzled, the Army psychiatrist in charge summons the patient's boyhood friend from the Philadelphia suburbs and asks him to try to break through this strange behavior. Al Columbato brings his own problems with him. He is recovering from plastic surgery on his jaw, smashed in Germany, and from the knowledge of his own profound cowardice under fire. He is not sure...
Despite his ravaged appearance, the once robust Bhutto, 50, had lost little of his self-assurance. He told the Supreme Court that his jailers had for a time kept him in a cell next door to 15 screaming "lunatics." Declared Bhutto: "Because I am a leader, I was able to survive this treatment. A lesser man would have dissipated [sic] long ago." Denying the murder charge, he added: "I am not a criminal. I am an important national leader. Is this the way you treat national leaders...
James E. Jackson Jr., a member of the American Friends Service Committee and a former inmate in Walpole, speculated yesterday that the administration may be creating "a new super-maximum cell block where the men will be locked up 23 hours a day and will receive no programs and only one visitor a week...
...awake into an environment that is, at first, strange and disturbing. At 6:35 Brother James Madden strides heavily through the dimly lit corridor, banging on the door of each cell, intoning, "Let us bless the Lord." Having thus been rescued from a host of bad dreams, you arise and in complete silence take your place in the chapel, prepared at the stroke of 7 to begin celebrating the mass. It will be an awe-inspiring performance...