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After reading your article on prison rioting [June 8], I found myself feeling angry and confused. How can prisoners who treat one another so inhumanely through gang rapes, stabbings and beatings demand humane treatment from prison officials and society...
...Tennessee's Brushy Mountain Prison for killing Martin Luther King, has long wanted to become a jailhouse legal expert. Early one morning last week, as Ray studied in the prison's law library, he was attacked from behind by three fellow cons, all of them black. The gang beat and stabbed Ray, 53, with a foot-long metal window brace. Doctors in nearby Oak Ridge found 22 wounds in Ray's head, neck and chest, but after an hour of surgery and 77 stitches he was out of danger. At week's end Ray was discharged...
...hours. They were finally forced back into their cells by police and guards using tear gas, but not before 18 inmates were injured in clashes with each other. One had an ear cut off, another survived a wooden splinter driven into his skull, yet another was bound and gang-raped...
...wing paymaster-not further identified -offered each terrorist 5 million pesetas (about $55,000) at a dinner in Perpignan, France, just across the frontier. But that did not account for the fact that the carpenter's shop had been rented five weeks before by a member of the gang...
...signatures are part of the self-characterization. Formidable, hatchet-wielding Carry Nation styled herself "Home Defender." The last survivor of the outlaw Dalton gang scrawled "The Compliments of Emmett Dalton," covering all occasions. General George Patton in pearl-handled regalia penned a cloying confection about his boyhood church...