Word: guanabacoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belly dancer named Patricia ("Satira") Schmidt got a 15-year sentence for killing her yachtsman-lover in Havana two years ago. They not only thought that the penalty was outrageous, they were grieved by the fact that she was sentenced to serve the time in the old Guanabacoa prison. After she had spent 18 months there, President Ramón Grau San Martin set Satira free...
...jail was no place to send a good-looking girl. There were no individual cells; inmates were mainly crowded into six foul, ground-level wards, as many as 25 to the ward. Each ward had one unshielded toilet in the corner. No one was more dissatisfied with Guanabacoa, or worked harder to get a modern jail, than Director Dr. Carmelina Guanche. In 1945, the government began to build such a prison...
...model clink. Many of them -madams, streetwalkers and homicidal housewives-set up a hullabaloo the minute they moved in. Locked up nightly in their blue-green-tinted rooms, they howled last week for the earthy gabfests, the feuds and hairpullings of the old bullpens. "I'll take Guanabacoa any time," rasped an ex-dope peddler. "Prison is prison," yelled another ingrate, "and I like mine with company...