Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...follow me." They make prison life real for their audiences, leaving be hind vivid impressions of bars, walls, guard towers and, above all, their own cipherlike existences...
...trial, Newton's Panthers promised violent vengeance if he were convicted. Lengthy appeals planned by Defense Attorney Charles Garry, however, helped mute their wrath. There were no demonstrations as Newton, 26, was manacled and driven 45 miles to a reception center at Vacaville for eventual transfer to another prison, possibly San Quentin...
Abrasive Eloquence. Another Panther was having his problems with the law last week. The Panthers' "minister of information," Author Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice), was ordered back to prison for violating his parole from an assault conviction. Cleaver became involved last April in a firefight during which the Panthers' 17-year-old treasurer was shot by Oakland policemen. Cleaver himself was wounded. As a result, his parole was revoked, and he was accused of assault with intent to commit murder. A lower court later freed him, ruling that Cleaver was being held because of his extremist political opinions...
Many states tend to keep their criminals hidden away, but Colorado's are highly visible. During the past two years, teams of convicts from the state penitentiary at Canon City have been al lowed to leave prison - each team with only one unarmed guard - to go on speaking tours throughout the state. As a result, Coloradans outside the walls are gaining an understanding of the convicts, and have begun to take an interest in their problems...
...maximum-security section of the penitentiary, and a few are bank rob bers and murderers. Yet nobody has tried to escape so far. The men realize that one escape would doom the whole program, and they themselves choose the five four-man teams who go - with the approval of prison authorities. So far, the teams have traveled a total of more than 200,000 miles across the state and have spoken to some 750,000 Coloradans. Their message usually goes like this: "I'm on the road to nowhere...