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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...
...Tonnot, a Lyon University law graduate, faces a ten-year jail sentence and $50,000 fine: "I'm done for," he sobbed when he was arrested. "I'm going to kill myself." Pending trial, a considerate magistrate put him in a suburban jail rather than the Lyon lockup, where Tonnot might encounter pimps whom he had done out of a livelihood...
...Army of Peace" in Washington in 1971 tried, somewhat grandiosely, to shut down the Federal Government, the police found an efficient tactic to keep the city moving: mass arrest. During the protests, the capital police rounded up more than 13,000 persons, herding them, it seemed, into every lockup in town, including a fenced-in practice field near R.F.K. Memorial Stadium. Most were released the next...