Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convicts could have had an earlier victory. On the third day of the revolt that left one convict dead, nine wounded, and $2,500,000 worth of prison property smashed and burned (TIME, April 28), prison officials surrendered on all the mutineers' demands (including a liberalized parole system, dismissal of brutal guards, no retaliation for the riot). But the convicts held out for two more days, quibbling over details and assurances, glorying in the publicity and the anxious discomfort of officials-and knifing and roughing four convicts who wanted to call it quits, while 35 homosexual convicts ran wild...
...revolt came to an end, Dr. Vernon B. Fox, young (36) psychologist and deputy warden who had conducted final negotiations for the surrender, took to the prison radio with a message of praise for the rioters. Said Fox: "Congratulations to you men of 15 block. You have performed a service. This may presage a new era (in administration) of American prisons...
...were my love testament," wrote pert Clara Petacci to her paramour, "because it is the last one that you will get ... If sometimes I felt in me the desperate attempt to free myself of this amorous vise-remember how you hurt me-those were waves of revolt...
...rioters' demands. "We're not asking for no hotel," he said. But the convicts wanted a full investigation of prison food and the prisoners' complaints of brutal treatment. Fearful for the safety of the hostages, officials decided to wait for hunger and thirst to break the revolt...
Shambles at the Farm. Two days later the revolt spread 37 miles north to Rahway State Prison Farm, a converted reformatory holding an overflow of lesser toughs from the Trenton prison. At Rahway the riot was bigger, and wilder. Eighteen guards were on duty in the wing of one dormitory where the trouble started. As the convicts began rioting, tearing bedding and overturning steel bunks, guards on the first floor got out, herding 75 prisoners ahead of them. Nine other guards were grabbed as hostages by 231 convicts, who barricaded themselves on the second floor...