Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convict dressed as Father Christmas gave out the presents under a 20-ft. tree. Other convicts served iced cakes, candies and jellies that a former bricklayer had made in the prison kitchen the day before. Guards, unarmed, strolled about in costumes too, but had nothing to worry about: convicts were on their honor. Near by, the African prisoners swung into a haunting Silent Night, And on the fringes of the crowd, snatching bits of paper streamers and begging slices of watermelon, were scores of ragged black children who had not been invited. "Next year," promised a prison warder...
...parole. Timed for publication at the same time as Touhy's release was a book co-authored by Touhy and Ray Brennan,* avowing Touhy's innocence. It charges that the prosecution used a witness who was not in Chicago at the time of the kidnaping to convict Touhy, and gives details of how Factor changed his testimony against Touhy during the trial...
...this hypothesis seemed inadequate to explain Peking's increasingly reckless disregard for Indian opinion, Asian good will, or Khrushchev's caution. Red China seemed spoiling for a fight-almost as if determined to convict Nehru's India as pliable and easily frightened, or else compel it to abandon its prestigious posture as the great uncommitted neutralist power in Asia...
...important of whom is "the treatment man," an assistant warden and psychologist who is symbolically named Pryor. Also called the Messiah, he is a vaguely evangelical figure with a jade ring and an MG, who keeps most of the inmates under his Freudian thumb. As the story flickers between Convict Desai and Counselor Sharon, it is clear that there are flaws in Psychologist Pryor's penmanship. For one thing, what is apparently "the best state-run maximum-security penitentiary in the United States" has a social organization based squarely on the proposition that in prison life all sexuality, unless...
...Convict Kinney and Psychologist Pryor are in contention for effective control of the prison population. To demonstrate his power, Kinney organizes a prison riot, his pretense being a "good new boy," who has been caught with a potato peeler hidden in a place of maximum security, and been put in solitary. Kinney spreads the word and soon "the less orderly element in this institution" have burned the chapel, organized a tuba and trumpet band around improvised barbecue pits, and taken three guards as hostages...