Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always so. When Crump first entered the antiquated, overcrowded county jail, he was described as "savage" and "animalistic," helped instigate a riot himself. But under the guiding hand of beefy, reform-minded Warden Johnson, 44, Crump gradually began to come round. He read voraciously, boned up on law, philosophy, sociology and the Bible (he is a convert to Catholicism). Today Paul Crump reigns as "barn boss" of a cell-block tier housing sick and problem convicts, works long hours administering to their needs. In his tiny cell, cluttered with books and manuscripts, he writes poetry, spices his correspondence with quotes...
...host of lawyers, sociologists and teachers. Two Chicago dailies, the American and the News, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have weighed in with strong editorial support for mercy. A Chicago TV station added dramatic impetus to the cause, airing a three-hour panel discussion direct from the jail-and featuring Crump himself. By unanimous agreement. 300 Chicago ministers sermoned their flocks on salvation for the convicted killer...
Barn Boss. Despite this, the unique aspect of Crump's case is that it does not rest on his guilt or innocence, but on what has happened to him while in jail. Unlike Chessman, who was arrogant and pathologically egotistical to the last, Crump appears to be totally reformed-so remarkably so, in fact, that his attorney, Donald P. Moore, this week is basing his appeal to the state parole board, which will recommend a course to the Governor, on an argument virtually without precedent in legal history: Crump's rehabilitation. Among the 60 persons who have given...
...willing to call off the quarrel if Benkhedda will 1) reinstate the three members of the F.L.N. army general staff he fired last month; 2) convoke the 75-man National Council of the Algerian Revolution, in which Ben Bella claims a majority; and 3) free "my friends from jail...
...Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...