Word: warden
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...letters promise garish violence: "I'll...pump about 3 boxes of shells into her from a 12-guage [sic]," says one that is signed with Yoder's name and prison-register number. His warden, Stephen Hardy, heard about at least nine alarming letters and initiated an investigation that led to Yoder's losing two years of credit earned for good behavior. Yoder then sued Hardy and won; Yoder presented evidence that several state officials had ignored the rules for revoking good-time credit in order to keep him incarcerated. The officials were plainly worried that Yoder would...
Less than a month after the original ruling against Hardy, the warden sought another way to keep Yoder from going free: he petitioned the court to commit Yoder to a mental hospital. The court was provided with a copy of another foul letter signed with Yoder's name. Addressed to a state judge, it describes, quite graphically, how the writer would rape His Honor...
...inactive voter does not have identification, the warden at the polling place must challenge the vote...
Traffic is slow for the Reeves duo but it’s not bustling for the CCA candidates either. After a while, Pitkin moves over to the nearby Peabody School, where he stays until almost noon. Then he goes to the Longfellow House precinct on Brattle Street, where a warden shoos him out of the precinct as he tries to check the vote...
Most of the film deals with the transformation of the two main characters. Slowly, Colonel Winter changes from a seemingly nice warden who is a little strict into a cruel, vindictive monster. On the other side of the prison bars, General Irwin gradually changes from a passive observer of prison violence into the inmates’ one last chance at salvation. Throw in the compulsory estranged daughter and the usual assortment of martyrs and you have a script that is about as derivative as they come. In fact, its only saving grace is that it actually contains some unexpectedly humorous...