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...several others were taken hostage during a mutiny of 100 or so inmates in a Newark, N.J., jail. In fact, the event seemed trivial only because it came so soon after the epic mayhem that took 33 lives in February at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe. That was a hard act to follow. But such is the condition of prisons, overcrowded and festering everywhere, that penal officials admit that other spectacular explosions could come at any time-and will, sooner or later. The national disgrace, in short, has grown into a combustible scandal...
...formidable despite glaring proof of the need. The Attica tragedy, for instance, blew up a blizzard of promised changes. Yet a U.N. human rights study group that inspected prisons last year reported that penal administrators seemed to have learned nothing at all from Attica. Did February's Santa Fe explosion produce new resolve? The only notable plan to emerge in the wake of that violence has been New Mexico's decision to build a new maximum-security prison...
With $18,000 from a second mortgage on his house, a few hand tools, and his wife as bookkeeper, Robert Ozuna in 1967 founded an electrical contracting firm in his garage. Today his New Bedford Panoramex Corp. of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., occupies an 18,000-sq.-ft. building, employs 41 people and expects 1980 sales of $3.5 million. Ozuna assembles the instrument panels that monitor nuclear plants, oil drilling rigs and other high-technology hardware. Firms working the Alaskan oil pipeline use his products. With their dazzling displays of dials and switches, the panels look like something...
Rosanne Piatt Santa Fe...
This was the gruesome scene that met some 200 heavily armed police and National Guardsmen last week as they charged into the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe after the most savage prison riot in U.S. history. Said Colonel Bill Fields, commanding officer of the National Guardsmen: "I was in World War II, and I've seen mutilated bodies. I don't remember anything as bad as this." The rampage lasted 36 hours and left at least 33 of the prison's 1,136 inmates dead. Two convicts were missing and probably dead, their bodies possibly...