Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he moved in on Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
...Best, the gnarled warden of Colorado's penitentiary, is one of the toughest in the business. He looks the part and acts it. In fact, when Hollywood did a movie called Canon City, about a big escape from his prison, they got him to play the warden. For more than 20 years, Best, a onetime cowpuncher, has run Canon City's stone prison with an iron fist. He keeps it clean, serves good food, sees to it that both guards and prisoners snap to when he shows up, deals severely with any who get out of line...
...knives sneaked out of the prison shoeshop, they wounded two guards. But tear gas stopped them. Then the five were marched to the prison gymnasium, were stripped, examined by a physician and shackled over the "grey mare," a wooden gym horse. As the doctor stood by, the warden himself and guards took turns walloping the five where mother used to spank. Their lash was a leather strap 6 inches wide and 2%½ feet long...
...injury. Said one simply: "We gambled and lost." Newspapers and many Coloradans did not accept the floggings so matter of factly. This week, beset by critics, Governor Thornton and the state prison board outlawed flogging at Canon City. Not yet decided: whether to take any action against the flogging warden...
Vocational Training. In Virginia's state penitentiary, Warden Frank Smyth, who had been encouraging inmates to study practical subjects, rejected as too practical one convict's request for a course in key-making...