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...when he and ten teammates smoothly robbed the Brink's armored car service office in Boston's old North End of $2,775,395 for the largest haul in U.S. history, went to jail for life with seven others in 1956; of bronchial pneumonia; in a Norfolk (Mass.) prison hospital...
Front entrance to Norfolk, Mass Prison is a long, concrete corridor leading into a small chamber that can be filled in two seconds with enough gas to knock a man unconscious. The exit from the chamber opens directly into the prison's inner yard, where rows of iron grey dormitories and brick administrative buildings line a large rectangular plot surrounded by a fifteen foot stone wall...
...inside Norfolk have committed a wide range of crimes, and have drawn penalties ranging from a few years to life imprisonment. Nevertheless, most of them share one common characteristic: they are not caught on the first offense, and if they were ever released, they will offend again. A large portion of prisoners regard arrest as simply "bad luck," rather than the inevitable, or even probable, consequence of crime, and the case of prison life, together with the difficulty to finding honest employment upon release, all tend to remove any reservations a convict might have about offending again...
Some 80 per cent of the men released from Norfolk will sooner or later be sack on the wrong side of the small, concrete room used to keep men from forcing their way out with a hostage...
...engaged in prison instruction for six years, and currently reaches one tenth of the state's 200 prisoners. Three dozen students are working as teachers this winter, and classes range from three to fifteen pupils. Instruction is in four of the state's seven prisons, at Norfolk, Walpole, Concord, and Framingham...