Word: lockups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invitations came in the form of a subpoena, and the party itself took place in an abandoned Los Angeles jail. Guests included Performers Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Jacqueline Bisset, who were frisked, photographed and fingerprinted at the door. The mock lockup was all in honor of Author Truman Capote, who is currently in Hollywood portraying a criminologist who becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They...
...Lasker ruled that the wretched conditions at Manhattan's House of Detention for Men - called The Tombs - violated the constitutional rights of prisoners. New York City could not afford to improve the jail and so closed it down, sending some 500 street-wise inmates to the Rikers' lockup. These transfers and others swelled Rikers' population from 1,036 to 1,879. Today each block holds up to 325 inmates, 85 more than "capacity." So far this year, the budget-pinched Correction Department has laid off 654 employees, dangerously thinning the guards at Rikers from five to four...
Walpole state prison has been in turmoil since last December when Superintendent Raymond Porelle ordered a seven-week "lockup" of inmates while a search was made for weapons and other contraband...
During the "lockup," Sandler said, "prisoners were confined to five-by-nine cells for 23 to 24 hours a day, and woman and children visitors were needlessly stripsearched...
Sandler said that this group had demanded and received the resignation of Porelles who had ordered the "lockup." He added, however, that the resignation was a result of pressure applied by the guards "who are more responsible than the prisoners for bringing in most of the drugs and weapons...