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...most moving scenes portrays a crowded dining hall of youngsters watching one of their number falsely accused of the businessman's murder. The boy pulls out a knife and threatens an unarmed prison administrator, ensuring his own death. Disgusted by what they see, the other inmates mount a successful riot, which prompts the visit of a sympathetic judge, the only honest politician in the film. He asks the boys to tell him the whole story as if they were "telling it to a father." But it is too late for rehabilitation; the youthful criminals refuse to speak...
...atmosphere"of intrigue and fear in the prison has continued despite the willingness of the New Mexico legislature to spend $90 million on improving the institution's facilities. The operating budget has been boosted by 39%. Overcrowding, considered a partial cause of the riot, has been alleviated: the prison population is down from 1,157 to 675. Still, a third of the convicts remain housed in army-style dormitories, an arrangement that many penologists say breeds conflict and gang rule...
...same time, most of the reforms urged by the state agencies that looked into the riot remain to be carried out. After inmates brought a civil rights lawsuit in federal court, prison officials signed a consent decree to put 624 new regulations into effect. But Daniel Cron, a lawyer hired by the state to monitor compliance, claimed in a blistering 482-page report last May that more than half of the changes had not been made. State prison officials then fired him. They took him back only after the lawyer for the convicts threatened to seek a contempt of court...
More than 300 prisoners have signed a petition asking that federal authorities take over day-to-day operation of the penitentiary. Meanwhile, everyone worries about another bloody riot. Prison officials admit that they are helpless to control the violence inside the walls. The exercise yard of Cellblock Three, where some of the most violent cons are kept, is so dangerous that guards require each convict to sign an unusual form before he steps into it. The document releases the state from liability for anything that might happen to him while he is in the yard...
Breier's confrontational tactics cause some authorities to wince. In Milwaukee as in Los Angeles County, community leaders have not forgotten that the acquittal of four patrolmen accused of the fata beating of a black businessman was the spark that ignited the murderous Miami riot...