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...Treasury last week clamped a ban on imports of Russian crabmeat, because it is produced by "forced, convict and indentured labor." It was the first time any Russian product has been barred from the U.S. since the recognition of Communist Russia by Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Psychologist Wilson got his first shock the first day. He asked the warden for some staff assistants to help administer psychological tests, and the warden simply gestured toward the cell blocks and told him: "You have 2,000 men to choose from." Convict assistants had not figured in Wilson's blueprint. But he wound up with six of them: a safecracker, a smuggler, a counterfeiter, a forger, a gangster and an innocent who had taken the rap for a woman...
Psychologist Wilson himself was by no means accepted on faith. Under cover of interior construction work, the convicts wired his office for evidence that he might be some new kind of spy for the warden. Once the prisoners decided that "Doc" was no stool pigeon, they were fiercely loyal. They cracked the skull of a disgruntled convict who spoke ill of the Doc, and once they rushed him off to the safety of a storeroom when a few other cons staged an armed break. Later, Wilson learned that the jailbreakers had intended to kidnap him as a hostage...
When Herbert Gehr came to trial in rural Carmel, N.Y. this month, the prosecution did its level best to convict him of second-degree murder (prison for life). It scoffed at his explanation of the shooting -that he believed burglars or prowlers were outside and that he had shouted "Who's there?" before firing...
...Still at large in New Zealand last week was Convict Cecil Gurr Otto who also escaped duress by walking out of a hospital. Two years ago Otto had murdered a woman, and in remorse tried to commit suicide. He succeeded only in blowing half his face away. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, Otto was sent to a hospital near Christchurch for plastic surgery. Authorities put him on his honor not to escape. Last fortnight, equipped with new, nearly healed features, he simply walked out of the hospital. New Zealand police admitted that recapture would be difficult. The only...