Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHADOW RAN FAST, by Bill Sands. Sentenced to "one year to life" on three counts of armed robbery, rebellious Convict Sands was rehabilitated almost overnight by Clinton T. Duffy, the crusading warden of San Quentin. He now crisscrosses the U.S. trying to convince other convicts to go "square...
...GREAT ADVENTURE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A Civil War drama about Union officers who plot to escape from Virginia's notorious Libby Prison, with Jack Warden and Fritz Weaver...
...gathering new momentum, gaining support from such religious groups as the Methodist Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Ardent in dividual abolitionists have ranged from the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Jack R. Johnson, tough warden of Chicago's Cook County Jail, who says, "The death penalty isn't punishment - it's revenge...
...Like Chessman. What beatings could not do, personal interest and kindness did. While in solitary, Sands was visited by crusading Warden Clinton T. Duffy. Duffy convinced the rebellious young prisoner that true rehabilitation would swing open "the Front Gate." Almost overnight Sands became a model prisoner and earned the right to work in the prison office and share a cell with another model prisoner-Caryl Chessman, who was then serving his first hitch at San Quentin. Years later, Chessman returned to San Quentin as a convicted kidnaper and rapist, and was executed. But Sands's reform was for real...
James V. Bennett, director of the nation's federal prisons, is a gentle man of 70 who often sounds like a movie warden with a heart of gold. He speaks of his 22,000 charges as "individuals with hearts, lungs and emotions like everyone else." He frets that "our criminal laws are the most severe in the world." Yet in his 27 years of guarding the likes of Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelley, Bennett has been as hard as he has been soft. Of 700,000 federal prisoners during his tenure, only six have flown the coop...