Word: warden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not a man has amended his character is ultimately a judgment call, and any decision concerning that depends as much, if not more, upon the nature of those who sit in judgment, as upon the actions and attitudes of the judged. If a convicted rapist frees the warden's daughter's cat from a tree is he ready for release back to society? An improbably example to be sure--few convicted rapists serve their time in joints that have any trees--yet perhaps it does illustrate the degree to which the prejudices--moral, racial, or otherwise...
...secretaries or other noncombative positions on the staff. Often in facilities large enough to provide employees housing inside the walls or in cases in which the town is too small to have a private or municipal hospital, children are born inside the prison. Clinton T. Duffy, a former warden at San Quentin, was born there--his father was a guard--grew up there--playing "prisoners-and-guards" instead of cowboys-and-Indians--and married there to the daughter of the Captain of the Yard...
...year and three months after Clinton Duffy completed his cycle by being appointed Warden of San Quentin, George Jackson was born in Chicago. The first son of parents who had made the short but tragic migration on the IC from downstate Illinois, Jackson's childhood was spent retracing their journey. During the school year, he attended St. Malachy, an internally segregated parochial school in Chicago. His summers were spent with his mother's family in the southern Illinois town of Harrisburg...
...Joliet, Ill., Robert DeMary, an inmate at Stateville Penitentiary, filed a suit in federal district court charging that prices in the prison store have risen unfettered by the President's dictum. DeMary asks that Warden John Twomey and Peter Bensinger, the state's director of corrections, each be held liable for $125,000 that prisoners have paid in unlawfully inflated prices...
...Lebanese communities and ordered them to foot the bill for two new hotels. The casinos too are once again raking in big money. More important, the dread Tonton Macoutes, or "bogeymen," who served as Papa Doc's private army of extortionists, are being relegated to the background. The warden of the notorious Fort Dimanche prison has been replaced, although an unknown number of political prisoners are still held there...