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...attacked by inmates, apparently without provocation. The next day, representatives of the guards demanded that the prisoners be locked up and shaken down to collect the illicit weapons. Both Warden Barry Mintzes and State Corrections Director Perry Johnson vetoed the plan as unnecessarily provocative, but the guards began a lockup anyway. Fearful that they might be confined to their cells over the long holiday weekend, prisoners in four of Jackson's 14 cellblocks refused to be caged. They turned on the guards, who fled to safety, and began setting fires. After rampaging for several hours, the inmates agreed...
Some 250 striking firemen jammed into a courtroom in Kansas City last week, demanding that they be put in jail. City officials more than obliged, issuing contempt-of-court citations against 700 of the city's 850 firemen, and marching many of them off to the lockup in handcuffs. Angry firemen sabotaged their equipment, stuffing rags into water hoses and pouring sugar into the fuel tanks of their trucks. Most outrageous of all, three fire fighters were charged with setting grass fires while they were on strike. National Guardsmen were called out to protect the police and other substitutes...
They were captured a third time and sent to the more secure Dallas County jail. Says Young County District Attorney Boyd Richie of his lockup: "The only way to fix it is to bulldoze...
...various offenses were perceived as crimes against the king's peace and his formal vanity, the older one-to-one system of compensation was abstracted into a legal machine of great brutality. After centuries of racks, gougings, hangmen and unspeakably inventive tortures, much of mankind adopted the lockup as its principal instrument of punishment, with occasional resort to the noose, guillotine and electric chair...
...Palace adjoining St. Peter's, the Master of Ceremonies or an assistant will stride through the rooms of the palace shouting, "Extra omnes!" (Everybody out). All not permitted in the conclave will then leave. A chosen Cardinal, in this case Argentina's Eduardo Pironio, will supervise the lockup inside. Two other Vatican officials and the commandant of the Swiss Guard will also lock the door from the outside. Special notaries will duly document the sealing...