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...with perfume while working on a story on the French perfume industry. He wrote: "My friends refused to associate with me, claiming that I smelled like one of those gentlemen who parade the Champs-Elysees after dark." The correspondent who got strapped into a death chair (by a playful warden) was Serrell Hillman, in San Francisco. The warden made him promise the story would run in the magazine before releasing...
When Clinton Truman Duffy became warden back in 1940, nobody expected that the prison would really change-even though he got the job because of public revulsion at the prison's sadism and corruption. San Quentin seemed to need a lion tamer, and Duffy was a mild, grey-haired little man who favored gold-rimmed spectacles and always wore a rosebud in his lapel. He was appointed temporarily, for only 30 days, while the governor looked for a more impressive crusader...
Back from Outside. But Duffy knew San Quentin. He was born there (the son of a prison guard), grew up inside the walls, and married the daughter of another San Quentin guard. Fascination for the gloomy pile, and an odd, boyhood ambition-to live some day in the big warden's mansion-brought him back from a job on the "outside...
...Warden Duffy began one of the most dramatic housecleaning jobs in penal history. He fired the brutish captain of guards and six other sadistic "screws," sternly prohibited the use of clubs, lashes, straps and hoses. He closed up the "hole" -a dungeon of airless, lightless, unfurnished, iron-doored stone cells into which convicts were thrown as punishment for even the most trivial offenses. San Quentin still shaved prisoners' heads and dressed them in numbered uniforms. Duffy abolished both practices. Men were fed out of buckets. Duffy installed a cafeteria and hired a dietitian...
Matching Ensemble. In Carson City, Nev., after a trusty made off with one of the state prison's red trucks, sold its load of farm equipment, and stopped for several drinks before abandoning it, Warden Arthur Bernard ordered the prison rolling stock repainted with large black & white stripes...