Word: champen
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...aftermath of the Attica rebellion has only reaffirmed the justice of the prisoners' protest. Roger Champen, an Attica inmate during the revolt, told a Harvard audience last week that New York has done nothing to relieve the conditions which led to the outbreak: slave wages for prison labor, inedible food, guard brutality, restricted political and religious expression, censorship of mail, poor health care and inadequate educational facilities. Only the number of guards has been increased...
...state holds the prisoners responsible for everything that happened. Not one officer was indicted," Champen said. Although the National Lawyers Guild has volunteered to defend the Attica prisoners, Champen called for donations to cover over $500,000 in defense costs. "The authorities perform lobotomies on prisoners and call it behavioral modification. Prisoners have no rights," Champen said...
...exchange with Champen, Kathryn Moos '75, who was in the audience, charged that three Harvard professors had received funding from the Justice Department to perform experimentation in "psychosurgery" on prisoners in Massachusetts correctional institutions...
...Champen further emphasized that the conditions at prisons reflect inequality in society. Most prisoners are non-whites and the National Guard and hostages at Attica were all white, Champen pointed...
...convicted when I was born. If I was bitter, I wouldn't be talking," Champen said...