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Knives & Forks. A series of bloody riots in 1954 left seven convicts dead, injured scores of others, and cost $10 million in damage to buildings and equipment-but did little to awaken the state government. In 1964, after 16 months of internal warfare among rival convict factions had killed seven men and hospitalized 205 others, the then Governor, John Dalton, sent in investigators to determine what had gone wrong. Nearly everything had. One day after a legislative committee issued a scathing report on conditions in the penitentiary, the warden shot himself. The state director of corrections left soon after...
Stern Side. A burned-out cell block, still standing a decade after the riots, was replaced by a prisoner-built recreation building that has become the home of the Versatiles, an eight-man convict combo that performs at schools and other state institutions. Most important, the prison population has been reduced by 20%. Yet a truly professional administration also has its stern side. Guards, who had often snoozed in overstuffed chairs in the watchtowers, were now perched on high aluminum chairs and provided with M-l carbines and sawed-off 12-gauge shotguns in place of puny .22-cal. rifles...
...Butts case. Harlan pointed out that the Post had faced no deadline in preparing the "fix" article. Yet despite a denial from Butts, the magazine had taken not even the most elementary steps to verify its story. The original source had been an Atlanta insurance salesman and convict ed check forger, George Burnett, who was accidentally plugged into a phone call between Butts and Bryant. No Post reporter even looked at Burnett's notes of the conversation before the article was published. Nor did anyone interview a man who was in the room with Burnett during the call...
Since he developed the voiceprint system at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1962, Kersta has worked with law enforcement agencies on more than 100 cases involving voice identification. His voiceprints were used to convict a rioter in the Watts area of Los Angeles who, with his back to the camera, admitted to a TV interviewer that he had set fire to five different buildings. Last year voiceprints were admitted as evidence in a jury trial in New York...
...found a pistol and a shotgun in a toilet water tank; another found Hayden's clothes in a washing machine. Though the loot was never found, a robbery eyewitness and the pursuing cab drivers identified Hayden's clothes, which were deemed sufficient evidence to convict Hayden and send him to prison for 14 years...