Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unconnables. At the prison, Warden Jack Fogliani has set aside a whole tier of cells for Synanon. Occupying it are men who normally would be under maximum security. Yet this tier is the only one in which the cells are left unlocked at night. Each 4-ft. by 8-ft. cubicle is spick-and-span. On the walls, instead of calendar nudes, are reproductions of Van Gogh and art work done by the inmates. Neither Fogliani nor the prison guard captain visits the Synanon tier unless invited...
...work.) He has kind notes from representatives of Jackie Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill saying that they are simply too busy to send autographs. When he tried to get Caryl Chessman's signature, however, he got only a steely note from an assistant warden of San Quentin saying that prisoners were not permitted to give autographs...
...hate to lose him," said the warden. "Where else could I get an intelligent, dedicated man who is glad to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week?" For six and a half years, Orville Enoch Hodge had been a model prisoner at Menard Penitentiary. The jovial Illinois state auditor who was talked of as a future Governor until he was caught embezzling $1,450,000 from the taxpayers, spent his time teaching classes on how to run a bulldozer, broadcasting as the prison's disk jockey. Now 58 and leaving on parole, Hodge was headed for Granite...
...20th century totalitarianism. The novel is set in a massive, fetid prison near Istanbul, in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, but the prison is obviously a modem police state in miniature. Guilty and innocent alike are cast into this prison where all standards have disappeared. Its chief warden is a masterpiece of characterization, both repellent and sympathetic, a tyrant trapped by fate as his victims are trapped...
...Warden Karadjos mingles with the prisoners to learn their weaknesses, and with this knowledge wrings confessions from them all, guilty or not. "He needed a confession," writes Andric, "as the one relatively fixed point on which to be able to base some semblance of justice and create some sort of order in a world where all are guilty and deserve punishment." To get his confessions, Karadjos jokes, bullies, wheedles, blackmails, but the prisoners, with shrewd insight, admire him as much as they fear him. "As things are today," one later reflects, "he was the right man in the right place...