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...wave of reform ended when Tom Murton left Arkansas. The new warden reverted to a strict trustie system that eliminated the prisoners' new-found sense of responsibility. A few of Murton's innovations were retained but the system was not new, only dressed-up. "Cosmetic changes only domesticate the animal but don't kill it," Murton says...
...January, 1968 Murton moved to Cummins Prison Farm, a much larger institution with abuses even more widespread than at Tucker. This time, the trusties and guards were prepared for the new warden and Murton was in physical danger for several days until prisoners from Tucker were brought over to convince Cummins inmates that the new "Man" would be a good thing for everybody...
...Black prisoner came to the new warden with the horrifying news that he had helped bury three inmates in the corner of the prison fields several years earlier. The next day, Murton selected a group of men and, accompanied by newspaper reporters and television crews, set out on a rainy morning to dig for the graves. By the middle of the day, three coffins had been unearthed and Murton figured that as many as 200 other graves had been dug in the field. Each grave represented a prisoner who had been murdered by prison authorities and discreetly buried...
...company of a guard, they can venture off prison grounds to cover a story. While naturally sympathetic to inmates' positions, the Angolite is not a reflexive advocate. Not long ago, for example, the magazine raised inmate ire by publishing an editorial criticizing a prison-reform advocate. An associate warden reads the magazine before it goes to press, but mainly for journalistic quality. Not a single story has been killed in Rideau's four years as editor...
After eight years marked by low turnouts, Harvard students have suddenly become involved in the last two elections, and Tuesday so many of them showed up to vote for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.) that the poll warden was still counting the ballots five hours after the polls closed...