Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been convicted of two kidnap-rapes. While he was awaiting formal sentencing, the A.C.L.U. asked to be allowed to challenge the constitutionality of capital punishment. In a rare move, the judge agreed to take evidence on the point: in September, such anti-death-penalty experts as former San Quentin Warden Clinton Duffy will testify against capital punishment, and state witnesses will defend...
...months of internal warfare among rival convict factions had killed seven men and hospitalized 205 others, the then Governor, John Dalton, sent in investigators to determine what had gone wrong. Nearly everything had. One day after a legislative committee issued a scathing report on conditions in the penitentiary, the warden shot himself. The state director of corrections left soon after, to be succeeded by Fred Wilkinson, 59, former deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and the first professional penologist ever to run the sprawling (seven institutions, 3,476 inmates) Missouri system...
Wilkinson and his new warden, Harold Swenson, 58, a longtime associate in the federal system, quickly established a new climate. Knives and forks -hitherto forbidden as potentially dangerous weapons-joined spoons on the dining tables; fresh fruit appeared on the breakfast menu; shower rooms were placed at the end of each cell-block tier so that convicts could bathe daily instead of twice a week. Cheap transistor radios were put on sale. For the first time, maximum-security prisoners were allowed outdoors for recreation and supplied with pillows and mattresses instead of back-breaking straw ticks...
McCalla's request was a bit unusual, but, said Warden Frank Pate, "I talked to the parole board, and they agreed to let him stay." McCalla settled down to study in the prison library. Hearing of his plight, Northern Illinois U. snipped academic red tape and gave him his exams early. He sailed through with a B average and sailed out of Stateville only 23 days late. Next fall he hopes to enjoy the real and academic freedom of an undergraduate senior, perhaps on the Northern Illinois campus...
University policemen are not hardened law enforcers. Tonis is one of the few with a background in police work (one man, a retired army colonel, was warden of a prison for German war criminals after the last war). Recruits come largely from within the Harvard community. They include librarians, janitors, and maintenance men, and the primary criterion for their selection is their "ability to get along with people." Tonis interviews as many as 50 applicants for one vacancy. The job is considered a good one and pays relatively well; no one has quit in the last five years...