Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couldn't go to Vietnam," explained one ex-Worcester school teacher, "so it came down to a choice between five years in Leavenworth and coming up here. I can't do any good for anyone in prison, but the problems that I am trying to solve are North American more than American and I will be as effective here as I ever was in the States...
Grotesque Practices. When Thomas Murton, Rockefeller's 39-year-old reform appointee to the prison superintendent's job, took over early in 1967, enforced homosexuality and traffic in liquor and narcotics were rampant at Tucker and the Cummins prison farm...
...rankmen," or ordinary inmates, who worked under their supervision. Often the trusties, who lived in unlocked TV-and-refrigerator-equipped shacks, fired rifles inches over rankmen's heads simply for sport. Murton quickly abolished many of the grotesque practices, but he was troubled by continuing rumors that prisoners had been murdered and buried on the prison grounds. Last week Murton ordered digging started in a treeless pasture at Cummins. Led to the site, which contained between 15 and 25 unexplained earth depressions, by strapping, 59-year-old Inmate Reuben Johnson, the workmen uncovered the three skeletons...
Murder for Money. Johnson, who has spent some 30 years on the farms for murder and robbery, identified one of the skeletons as Jake Jackson, a Negro whom he had helped bury on Christmas Eve, 1946. Prison records indicated that Jackson had "escaped" two days later. Around Labor Day in 1940, he said, "they killed a bunch of them-I'd say about 20." Asked why the men had been murdered, Johnson said: "For money. You need money to make it here." Often he had to pay $2 or $3 a week for protection himself...
...young corpse a year, with frequent visits to the graves on the moors, kept Ian and Myra reasonably serene but leaves Williams feverishly laying out plot and explication like a row of tombstones.* He points, he nudges, he oohs and ahs in both Scottish and Lancashire accents until prison doors finally clank for keeps on his terrible twosome...