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...secretaries or other noncombative positions on the staff. Often in facilities large enough to provide employees housing inside the walls or in cases in which the town is too small to have a private or municipal hospital, children are born inside the prison. Clinton T. Duffy, a former warden at San Quentin, was born there--his father was a guard--grew up there--playing "prisoners-and-guards" instead of cowboys-and-Indians--and married there to the daughter of the Captain of the Yard...
...Joliet, Ill., Robert DeMary, an inmate at Stateville Penitentiary, filed a suit in federal district court charging that prices in the prison store have risen unfettered by the President's dictum. DeMary asks that Warden John Twomey and Peter Bensinger, the state's director of corrections, each be held liable for $125,000 that prisoners have paid in unlawfully inflated prices...
...Lebanese communities and ordered them to foot the bill for two new hotels. The casinos too are once again raking in big money. More important, the dread Tonton Macoutes, or "bogeymen," who served as Papa Doc's private army of extortionists, are being relegated to the background. The warden of the notorious Fort Dimanche prison has been replaced, although an unknown number of political prisoners are still held there...
WHAT ELSE COULD HAVE BEEN DONE EARLY? Rebellious prisoners, say many experts, are scared and uncertain at the start of an uprising and must be overwhelmed promptly. Contends one Midwestern warden: "At the beginning, the inmates had no security; they would have run if authorities had gone in right away." Actually, Attica prison guards tried, but were repulsed. The Midwestern officer insists that a large enough force, using tear gas and clubs instead of guns, could have been mustered quickly to handle the mob. Another warden says that bringing in too many outside police can undermine the authority...
...impasse could eventually be found. In fact, a settlement seemed imminent after Oswald surprised the visiting mediators by agreeing to 28 of the 30 prisoner demands. He balked only at complete amnesty, which he considered both unlawful and "nonnegotiable," and at the prisoners' insistence that Warden Mancusi be fired. Dumping Mancusi, Oswald contended, would undercut superintendents throughout the New York system...