Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lincoln Memorial University (mountain work-school at Harrowgate, Tenn.) Chaplain John Callahan of New York City's Tombs Prison...
...Memorial Day morning, Warden Kirk Prather stepped out into the prison yard of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In one more day Warden Prather, a bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat, he felt he had made a good impression. There was a chance that he might become head of the Federal prison at nearby Leavenworth ("The Bankers' Institute"). He turned his attention to the ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners...
Clambering down the outside wall with a hemp ladder the prisoners had made, the party seized the prison farm superintendent's car. A guard shot Harvey Bailey in the leg, but no further resistance was offered the convicts. The convicts retaliated by shooting a guard...
...commandeered was occupied by a tipsy driver. He did not seem to mind their taking his car and bottle, but swore that "no damned Irishman can take my hat away from me." A convict named Brady returned the hat. After that there was no further threat to kill the prison officials. "The liquor warmed them up," explained Warden Prather, who not long ago had allowed Underhill to take up a collection for an operation on his sick mother. Near Welch. Okla., the warden and guards were released about midnight. They were given a dollar to "get some eats and smokes...
Back at Lansing, Governor Landon announced six-month "good time" allowances for 1,850 convicts who did not take advantage of the break. The State Prison Board exonerated Warden Prather and his staff of all blame. "The six men who planned the break were lifers, killers and desperadoes," the board found, ". . . desperately willing to gamble for freedom...