Word: warden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was an ominous familiarity about the uprising in the maximum-security state prison at Rahway, N.J. Remember Attica, scrawled on a sheet fluttering from a cellblock window, was hardly necessary. However, 24 hours after Rahway inmates had seized four guards and the warden as hostages, the rebellion ended peacefully. At Attica, 43 inmates and hostages died during an assault on the prisoners' stronghold; after a negotiated settlement, the hostages at Rahway were released and prisoners returned quietly to their cells...
...prison officials have been releasing many untrue news reports regarding the situation in this prison. They desperately want to retain the public's support. Warden Moore claims that we were forced into our cages on the afternoon of November 5th. That's a goddamn lie. We began a work strike at 8 A.M. that morning and we returned to our cages as we normally do for the noon count--we've been confined to these cages since that day but this was our decision. Moore claims that he had us confined due to sabotage and the alleged finding...
When the grievance committee met with Warden Moore on the eve of this present work strike and requested that he make some meaningful changes, other than just cereal at supper, and warned him of possible trouble if he insisted in refusing to comply with some of our 140-odd grievances--he replied by stating: "The battle lines have been drawn, I'm the captain of this ship. I'll go down with my ship." We prisoners have abandoned the ship! Moore is not keeping us confined to our cages: we refuse to come...
...fundamental characteristic of people who hold power is that they know how to protect it. If they didn't they wouldn't have it. For a guard or a warden, power means control. It is the ability to stop something from happening. While in other institutions, control is a means, as in the army where it is a means to "combat readiness;" control is an end in itself in the prisons of America...
...warden said to me the other...