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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...
...rush to determinate judgment is being led by an unlikely alliance: inmate groups, various academics and law-and-order conservatives. Since California embraced the indeterminate sentence in 1917, prisoners have increasingly chafed under what they see as the arbitrariness of parole authorities. Soledad Brother George Jackson, for example, was held in prison eleven years for a $70 gas station robbery because, his partisans said, he refused to soft pedal political militancy...