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When slim, 29-year-old ex-Convict Leland Ferre was locked up in the little county jail at Monticello, Ill. (pop. 2,612) last March, Sheriff Jason Ripperdam couldn't help feeling sorry for him. Ferre had been indicted for burglarizing a filling station, two stores and a couple of houses. But a chest infection had left him looking sickly. On-top of that, he was a local boy. When a doctor advised that Ferre be given "as much freedom as possible," the sheriff felt it his neighborly duty to agree...
...convicts could have had an earlier victory. On the third day of the revolt that left one convict dead, nine wounded, and $2,500,000 worth of prison property smashed and burned (TIME, April 28), prison officials surrendered on all the mutineers' demands (including a liberalized parole system, dismissal of brutal guards, no retaliation for the riot). But the convicts held out for two more days, quibbling over details and assurances, glorying in the publicity and the anxious discomfort of officials-and knifing and roughing four convicts who wanted to call it quits, while 35 homosexual convicts ran wild...
When in Rome (MGM) superimposes one of Hollywood's perdurable plots on the Eternal City: an escaped Leavenworth convict (Paul Douglas) is regenerated by an American priest (Van Johnson) during the 1950 Holy Year in Rome. The picture has several slapsticky cops & robbers chases, some good views of famed Roman churches and some sticky dialogue. Sample: Douglas-"Justice is a blind dame weighing a fish." Johnson-"It's a soul she's weighing." Douglas-"Sole, trout, haddock, what's the difference...
Turnover. In Cincinnati. ex-Convict Robert Ziegler. held on a charge of stealing $118 from his employer, complained that some thief stole the money from under a blanket in his car where he had hidden...
...rioters with machine guns and shotguns. Shouting defiance across the prison yard, Ward held a knife at a guard's back as Crazy Jack warned: "We'll toss out a dead hostage if you start shooting." But as flying wedges of guards and troopers moved in, one convict was killed and eight others wounded under orders to shoot to kill if necessary...