Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sign appears on the right of the highway: STATEVILLE. Behind it rises a broad, bare hill across whose desolate skyline stretches a wall. Above the wall rise four great, drab cheeseboxes. These are the cell blocks of Illinois' model penitentiary. Here, last week, occurred the first major prison riot of the year...
...hundred men in the machine shop dropped their work, set fire to the place. Yelling, brandishing clubs, other inmates joined the riot, ignited the mess hall, two kitchens, laundry, paint shop, chair and shoe factories. The confusion increased. Eyes stinging with the yellow smoke, more than a thousand prisoners broke all the windows of the buildings which would not burn, destroyed their food supply, screamed, leaped, slipped, tumbled about in the thick mud left by melted snow. Finally Warden Hill walked out among them and ordered: "Go back to your cells or we'll fire." A Negro advanced threateningly...
Newshawks learned that Nathan Leopold-who with Richard Loeb killed small Bobby Franks of Chicago seven years ago-was being transferred from the old prison to the new on the morning of the riot, but was sent back...
Chief cause of the riot seemed to be resentment against the State Pardon & Parole Board's administration of the indeterminate sentence law, by which the Board, and not judge or jury, ultimately fixes the time a prisoner must serve. Said round-faced, Roman Catholic Chaplain Elegius Weir: "One of the principal objections of the prisoners is that although all ten members of the Board pass upon the parole applications, only three of them actually come here to hear the cases. They claim they are allowed only one or two minutes to present their cases. They say they are sworn...
...Pasquier is one of the most exquisite old men in all the world (see cut). He has on his hands 285,000 square miles and more than 20,000,000 natives. Just about a year ago they first began a riot on a Communistic basis, the more literate natives having read and ill-digested some tons of pamphlets smuggled in from Russia. Russians are propagandizing hotly in Indo-China primarily because the Soviet State charges and believes that France is its most dangerous enemy in Europe...