Word: trenton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of Trenton's south-side industrial district stands New Jersey's prison for the state's toughest criminals -a block of ancient, dilapidated buildings crowded inside a 20-ft. red stone wall. It has long been a smoldering trouble spot, as well as an eyesore, in Trenton (pop. 128,000). Last week, for the third time in less than a month, the trouble spot burst into revolt. Just before the noon meal 69 convicts rioted, grabbed four hostages and barricaded themselves in the prison print shop...
Shambles at the Farm. Two days later the revolt spread 37 miles north to Rahway State Prison Farm, a converted reformatory holding an overflow of lesser toughs from the Trenton prison. At Rahway the riot was bigger, and wilder. Eighteen guards were on duty in the wing of one dormitory where the trouble started. As the convicts began rioting, tearing bedding and overturning steel bunks, guards on the first floor got out, herding 75 prisoners ahead of them. Nine other guards were grabbed as hostages by 231 convicts, who barricaded themselves on the second floor...
Message from the Window. As the hours dragged by, the rioters quieted.. Food and water supplies at both Trenton and Rahway gave out. The men drained stale water from fire hoses, broke radiators to draw off their rusty water. On the third day at Trenton, officials agreed to an investigation by the Osborne Association, a private organization interested in prison welfare. The next morning, after 77 hours of siege, the Trenton convicts gave...
...Princeton '13) Trenton...
From the Spinach Fields. On a six-mile peninsula in the Delaware River, a mile below Trenton, the largest steelworks ever built at one time is rising in the rural countryside. It is Big Steel's new Fairless Works. It will cost $400 million. Giant earthmovers are clawing across 3,800 acres of bean fields and tomato patches; 6,000 construction workers are laying 20 miles of paved roads and 75 miles of railroad. Huge shovels scoop out the river basin to dock ore ships that will come from Venezuela...