Word: hacksaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spring Inventory. In El Reno, Okla., the Federal Reformatory put up for sale 1,500 Ibs. of "scrap and salvage, consisting of hacksaw blades, files and broken tools...
They collected kitchen knives, cleavers, axes, shovels, scissors, hacksaw blades and night sticks. They let all the prisoners they could out of their cells, and directed the preparation of food for prisoners and hostages alike. Associate Warden Bezzerides suggested that he outline their demands. In a shaky hand, he wrote: "Confinement without hope is pointless. Accordingly, we would like to discuss our difficulties from the standpoint of some kind of therapeutic treatments for the men doing time for rules infractions...
Smothering Grease. Late one afternoon four convicts began sawing through the one-inch bars of their solitary cells. They used smuggled hacksaw blades, smothering the noise with grease stolen from the kitchen. When the bars were held in place only by narrow slivers of steel, the desperadoes hid their blades and waited...
Arts & Crafts. In Moultrie, Ga., accused of smuggling a hacksaw blade to prisoners in Colquitt County jail, Mrs. Ruth Lower, 18, protested: "The boys in there told me they wanted the blade to saw soup bones. I didn't know they were going...
World War II: Volunteered for combat duty as an air-force lieutenant (navigator), fled France after the Nazi victory, was caught in Morocco and sentenced by Vichy to six years in prison for "dese-tion," but made a hacksaw-and-bedsheet escape to the underground and then to the De Gaulle forces in England. Made bombing raids over France and Germany...