Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within two hours, the jurors returned guilty verdicts for all nine, subjecting each to a maximum of 18 years in prison and a $22,000 fine...
Free Meals. The show is a hit. "We get blizzards of mail," says Prison War den Wayne Patterson. "There's no short age of speaking invitations." So enthusiastic is the public that Denver area Kiwanians recently raised $4,000 to provide the convicts with two station wagons. Some restaurants give them free meals, and a motel in Denver lets them stay overnight for nothing...
...self-help idea has spread to 600 other prisoners who have enrolled in service organizations that are part of Warden Patterson's rehabilitation program. Among the clubs is an authorized chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which this fall is sponsoring a charity football game between the prison team-the "Rockbusters" and the semipro Colorado Colts. The proceeds will go to a parolees' halfway house and a judge's youth program. The convicts have become so respectable that last summer they were invited to the Colorado state fair where about 70 of them set up their...
...years ago as the son and grandson of railroad workers in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Pleasence developed his first yen for acting after his mother had enrolled him in speaking classes. He was an R.A.F. wireless operator in World War II, was shot down, and spent a year in a German prison camp. After some postwar repertory and lots of television, he was about to sign a film contract when he read the script of The Caretaker. The play paid him ?10 a week at London's Arts Theater Club; it proved such a hit that it moved to a larger...
...nuanced truthfulness with which his stories reflect the foibles of society, or reveal the inner feelings that release cruelty and indifference. What chills most in The Academy, for example, is not the slowly revealed, slightly ho-hum fact that a boys' military school is actually a prison from which the students never graduate. Rather it is Ely's subtly conveyed perception that most parents of prospective students do not really want to know what they are letting their children...