Word: rison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last June Martin published a piece that displeased one very important reader: Richard Rison, the newly appointed warden at Lompoc. Headlined THE GULAG MENTALITY, Martin's article charged that Rison had increased tension at the prison by limiting access to the recreation yard and replacing the inmates' individually decorated and highly prized chairs with plain gray folding chairs. "He's tryin' to start a riot," complained an unidentified convict in Martin's story. "We might just as well give him one and get it over with...
...week later he was transferred to a prison in San Diego, in preparation for yet another move to a facility near Phoenix. Fearing that Martin was beginning a regimen that inmates call "bus therapy" -- being transferred from facility to facility -- both Martin and the Chronicle filed suit against Rison, two other Lompoc officials and two officials of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Says Jeffrey Leon, Martin's attorney: "We believe he was punished as a direct result of his article, and that is illegal...
...Rison and federal prison officials maintain that Martin had broken federal regulations against prisoners' being employed and receiving outside compensation. Defense Attorney George Stoll argued at a hearing last month that Martin "isn't Bret Harte or somebody who is uniquely describing the California experience. He's a federal prisoner, and he's moved around from time to time...
...Quixote saddled up Rosinante, Lundgren is redeemed by his own goodness. Harrison's taste for the bat ty sometimes cloys: "He really wasn't so much a fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell Hammett's low-rent realism made the mystery novel fun to read. War lock demonstrates that it is equally enjoy able to spoof...