Word: soledad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it is, Juan Corona, who remains in Soledad prison, will be represented by a new legal team...
Andrae Crouch brings the gospel to Soledad Prison...
California's Soledad Prison is a spot of hell in the middle of a Garden of Eden. Located on 960 acres in the verdant Salinas Valley, the penitentiary housing 2,400 inmates is a cauldron of latent racial violence. In its 26-year history, 18 inmates have slaughtered one another in the name of black or white supremacy. Last week, as part of a continual effort to promote racial harmony, prison authorities held a concert by Gospel Singer Andrae Crouch, a black. TIME Correspondent James Wilde attended. His report...
...words were sung with a fervor that touched everyone in the hall. The audience ignited with applause. Andrae Crouch and the Disciples, 1977's top gospel group, had triumphed in the "gladiator school"-the inmates' name for Soledad Prison-on the threshold of the new year...
...evening concert in the gymnasium of the prison's medium-security cell-block unit was a soothing antidote for Soledad's pervasive atmosphere of violence and tension. One section of the prison unit was still locked up after the near-fatal stabbing of a white inmate on Christmas Day. Several days before the concert, 18 men were confined to the maximum-control unit of the penitentiary for insubordination. When Crouch arrived at Soledad with his multiracial band (four whites, five blacks), the chaplain cautioned them uneasily: "In the event of any disturbance, obey the instructions of the custodial...