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...still basically the same: there are a bunch of women locked in a small, dirty space; some of them are lesbians; they are all rude and nasty; they fight with the guards; the guards fight back; the guards get involved with them and/or try to rape them; the warden is evil; through the whole trying experience, someone dies, and the rest of them become better people and closer friends through all of it. Yawn...
...crowd's good-natured cheering seems to indicate that the majority are rooting for the cons not to get trampled. Warden Burl Cain hopes his men, with their sometimes accomplished bull wrestling and barrel jumping, are leaving a lasting impression. "These inmates don't have horns and a fork and a tail," says Cain. "The rodeo shows that they can be rehabilitated--that they're real people...
Then, The Crimson reported, "Lowenstein's second long pass was complete to O'Neill on the 37, and on the next play Dave Warden with a thirty yard pass went all the way down the right side line for a Harvard touchdown at ten minutes and 17 seconds of the last period. Dick Hyde missed the extra point...
...Cortlandt Park boring, and so I quit. I switched to the 440-yd. dash, because I could get it over with faster, but I dropped out after one season. We had a basketball team at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. I was tall, fairly fast and the senior warden's son, and the coach was inclined to give me a chance. I spent most of the time riding the bench, so I quit the team, to the relief of the coach. In later years, I frequently found myself asked to play or coach basketball, apparently out of a racial preconception...
Some of the wariest opponents of the no-frills movement are prison wardens and guards, who must live with convicts at close range and say they like to have a variety of options to keep simmering lockups from exploding. That need is especially strong now that the increasingly popular practice of imposing mandatory sentences, a response to public anger over inadequate prison terms, is making it harder to offer time off as a reward for good behavior. To ban such things as TV and recreation as well, warns warden Thomas McKinney of the Alfred Hughes state prison unit in Gatesville...