Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, heat-sodden office building of the Cartersville (Ga.) State Prison camp sat Warden Arthur W. Clay: a stocky, tight-lipped man with hair clipped high about his ears, his white shirt open at the neck, his wash trousers hitched up above the garterless white socks...
Through the office passed a long line of convicts in stripes, to testify for the visiting members of a special legislative committee. The testimony might have made impassive Warden Clay squirm...
...Convicts are put in leg picks-two-foot iron bars locked over an ankle-for trying to escape, for failing to call Warden Clay "Captain," for no reason at all. The picks stay on night...
...Being "taken to see the pigs" means a trip to a little shack near the camp hogpen. There "Big Jim" Bryant, a 7 ft. 2½ in., 300-lb. guard, holds the door shut while Warden Clay administers a whipping-up to 50 lashes-with a rubber hose...
After the convicts finished, Big Jim Bryant and everyone else on the prison staff blandly denied the stories. Warden Clay, who used to be a farmer before he got his $160-a-month job, said...