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...Quentin belongs in American folklore as the kind of place where George Raft and a thousand other cons would pound their tin cups to scare the screws, a Cagneyesque sort of stir with even a certain nostalgic romance about it. Its reality, of course, has always been bleaker. Before Warden Clinton Duffy took over in 1940 and turned "Q" for a time into a model for penal reform, the vast sand-colored fortress on San Francisco Bay offered sadistic guards, shaved heads, the airless "hole" for solitary, dinner out of buckets and a gallows painted baby blue. But then...
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...
...Making It had just concluded when an inmate leaped onto the stage and launched into an angry speech denouncing the injustice of the prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within minutes he and the guards were overpowered. The riot...
...false prosody: "3 lines Too tum-pum at a stretch," one scribble reads. With the notation "1880," Pound skewered an anachronism in which Eliot called for "a closed carriage" in 1922; the carriage promptly became a "closed car at four." W.H. Auden once observed that Eliot was part church warden, part twelve-year-old boy. Pound was on the side of the boy. His objections to Eliot's frequent use of "may" and "perhaps" ("Perhaps be damned") rise to pique when Eliot's narrator of the moment, the blind seer Tiresias, who by definition knows the past...
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...