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...defendant told him that he had been repeatedly raped by prisoners while on his way to court in the sheriff's windowless steel van. More than 3,000 inmates were interviewed at the city's three penal institutions-the Philadelphia Detention Center, the House of Corrections and Holmesburg Prison. By conservative estimates, says the report, 2,000 assaults took place in the past two years. And once a man has been attacked, he is marked as a target for homosexual advances. A few reluctantly enter "housekeeping" arrangements with the strongest attackers, who in turn protect them from other...
...scientists got permission from the Food and Drug Administration to test the drug on humans, found after tests on volunteers (including 850 inmates at a prison in Holmesburg, Pa.) that those who took pills made of the compound were much less likely than others to succumb to Asian flu. Conclusion: the drug does not kill the virus but inhibits its multiplication by preventing it from entering the cells of the body. Since scientists until recently considered an anti-virus drug a medical impossibility, the new Du Pont drug has revolutionary possibilities and may lead Du Pont into an area...
When Willie slipped out of Pennsylvania's tough county prison at Holmesburg five years ago-after donning a guard's uniform and waving jauntily to real guards on the walls-many a police inspector ground his molars into a veritable paste and detectives hurled so many cigars into so many stationhouse cuspidors that the night trembled to a sound not unlike the clashing of Oriental gongs. Willie came to New York and got a city job as a porter in an old folks' home. After three quiet years he led five helpers into a Queens branch...
...Bing" or "Klondike" is what convicts in Philadelphia's County Prison at suburban Holmesburg, Pa. call it: a narrow, thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot...
...Philadelphia, is on a short spur off the New York-Philadelphia mainline. Bustleton-bound were 20 delegates returning from the 51st triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church at Atlantic City. At Philadelphia their cars were attached to a switch engine, shuttled off to Bustleton. From the dispatcher at Holmesburg Junction, 13 miles out, went word that the special had passed "on time." Then it vanished...
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