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Word: tufo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eerie Mist. Within several hours some 500 police and extra guards were rushed to the jail. Commissioner of Correction Benjamin J. Malcolm and Peter Tufo, the unpaid head of the city's Board of Correction, arrived and bravely agreed to enter one of the cell blocks held by the rebels in order to negotiate. Donning gas masks, the two men crawled through the hole in cell block 6 into an eerie tear-gas mist. They then asked the tense inmates for "delegates." Seven leaders - who carried homemade shivs and wore blankets and towels around their heads as a protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAILS: Bitter Outbreak on Rikers Island | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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