Word: wardens
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...experiment were moved to other institutions in December. Those places were quickly filled by inmates from other facilities who, like Newton, say they're looking for a more meaningful way to spend their prison time than lifting weights. The religious alternative seems to be working. Assistant warden John Hancock says Lawtey's confinement wing for inmates with discipline problems usually held close to its capacity of 28 prisoners, but now rarely has more than six at a time. "We're not forcing this change on anybody," Hancock says in response to criticism that Lawtey is a thinly veiled tool...
...Heilongjiang's former Party chief, Tian Fengshan, accusing him of corruption dating to the bomb-shelter scandal. It seemed likely that prosecutors would review Zhu's testimony. Not long after, claims Fan, two retired judicial officials visited Zhu in prison and "warned him not to 'make things messy,'" (A warden declined to comment on the visit.) After that, Zhu became afraid, advising his daughter in Japan against visiting home and warning his sister to watch her son carefully. When authorities unexpectedly offered medical parole, says Fan, Zhu feared it was a setup. Days later, he was dead. Officials say simply...
...Romulo Kintanar, November 1988, former New People's Army chieftain and his wife do a runner while attending a warden's birthday party
...warden at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York agreed to turn off the lights in the exercise yard, it might have been possible to see a galaxy. But turning off the lights is not something you do at a maximum-security prison. So the 18 students in the inmate astronomy class--who were getting their first chance to peek through a telescope at the impossibly open sky above them--had to content themselves with the moon and Saturn...
...such instance was the interview of former prison official Johan Steinberg, in which he described his work as a warden on death row in Pretoria Central Prison, where many activists were hanged...