Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haystack. In Columbus, Ohio, when the state penitentiary's commissary was looted of 50 cartons of cigarettes and assorted boxes of candy, Warden Ralph W. Alvis announced sternly: "There's a thief in here somewhere...
...revolt came to an end, Dr. Vernon B. Fox, young (36) psychologist and deputy warden who had conducted final negotiations for the surrender, took to the prison radio with a message of praise for the rioters. Said Fox: "Congratulations to you men of 15 block. You have performed a service. This may presage a new era (in administration) of American prisons...
Good Old Earl. By this week, most officials involved were backing down hard. Fox, first praised for his successful negotiations with the rioters, was relieved of his prison duties. Warden Julian N. Frisbie announced there would be no great change in prison administration. As for reprisals, he said, assurances were only that there would be none by prison officials or guards. The rioters are still subject to punishment by outside law enforcement agencies. But some Michigan citizens had reason to wonder why anyone would want to keep such a splendid character as good old Earl Ward behind bars...
...Denver, Warden Roy Best and eight of his Colorado State Penitentiary guards were indicted by a grand jury last week for violating the civil rights of five prisoners who, the indictment charged, were flogged, choked and burned with lighted cigarettes. Complained Best: "How can we handle these toughies? If my guards see one of those murderers 'going over the wall,' what're they supposed to do, warn the prisoner he is going to lose his canteen privileges, or blow 'em to hell off the wall...
...comparison, the famed Black Palace is almost a felon's delight. Colonel Francisco Linares, the warden, boasts that he runs it a la Mexicana, which means nourishing food, little work, the traditional weekly "conjugal visits" to cells by prisoners' wives. But the big Black Palace (official capacity 2,000) is crammed with 4,485 convicts, and 40 new prisoners arrive each day. Occasionally Linares must hold a cuerda a las islas-a roundup for the islands...