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Chief among the causes advanced for the prison revolts at Dannemora and Auburn in New York (TIME, Aug. 5) were...
...Dannemora is Clinton prison, called "Siberia" by New York's underworld. There are herded the state's ugliest criminals in vicious, degenerate brotherhood. They work for 1¢ per day. While idling in the yard, 1,300 inmates suddenly mutinied, beat two guards, set fire to buildings, stormed the walls. They were unarmed but they fought for five hours. Prison guards, state troopers and citizen volunteers (including famed Baritone Reinald Werrenrath) finally quelled them with machine and riot guns, tear bombs, hand grenades. Three convicts were killed, many injured. Estimated damage...
...days later the mysterious underworld "grapevine" had carried news of Dannemora's riot to the state prison in Auburn. Unlike Dannemora this institution?with convict self-government and liberal policy?has often been called "the prison without walls." Built to hold 1,350, it was last week overcrowded with 1,818 malcontents. On Sunday the men, numbering 1,700, led by a trusty, walked to the yard for an outing. At the trusty's knock at the "key room," a guard opened the door, was immediately kicked senseless. After shooting another guard, stealing his keys, the convicts seized guns from...
...anyone who heard Mr. George's talk last Saturday evening it must have been immediately evident that even though his amazing theories could not at once be put into general practise, he was making a seriously threatening attack, figuratively speaking, upon the unyielding concrete walls of Sing-Sing and Dannemora. It is true that the idea of regarding offenders against the laws of the land as social invalids is not absolutely new; but Mr. George appears so far to be the only idealist in his line who has had the necessary common sense and experience to reduce his theory...