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Fine is a regular churchgoer (Episcopalian), vice president of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and a senior warden at his own parish, St. George's, Nanticoke. He says with true Pennsylvania candor: "As a boy, I never missed an opportunity to cut church. But when I became a judge, I felt that a judge should set a good example in his county...
Their jailers are Russian, British, French and American. The four officers occupy desks in the same office, speak German to each other, take turns being warden. Similarly, outside the troops of four nations take turns manning the ramparts; this month it is a company of Yorkshiremen...
...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...
...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...