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...point is that the rules are easier to follow inside Audton than outside. Under the ministrations of Warden Goad, Filmore discovers that each hour is filled with well-managed activity. His muscle tone responds to early rising and hard work; his dormant mind is stimulated by his cerebral fellow cons. "Here," says one eloquently, "here, there is near perfection. The rules cover everything, from your sex life to your shoelaces...
...Unconnables. At the prison, Warden Jack Fogliani has set aside a whole tier of cells for Synanon. Occupying it are men who normally would be under maximum security. Yet this tier is the only one in which the cells are left unlocked at night. Each 4-ft. by 8-ft. cubicle is spick-and-span. On the walls, instead of calendar nudes, are reproductions of Van Gogh and art work done by the inmates. Neither Fogliani nor the prison guard captain visits the Synanon tier unless invited...
...Punishment is not the answer, nor keeping a man locked up," says Warden Fogliani. "These Synanon people can approach the convicts in a way that we can't. They've been at the bottom of the barrel, too, so other convicts listen to them. It's the voice of experience." Bill Crawford, one of the Synanon leaders who moved to Reno, and an ex-addict himself, goes further: "The prisoners suddenly found they were with guys who, like themselves, have conned people-and therefore can't be conned by the prisoners...
...work.) He has kind notes from representatives of Jackie Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill saying that they are simply too busy to send autographs. When he tried to get Caryl Chessman's signature, however, he got only a steely note from an assistant warden of San Quentin saying that prisoners were not permitted to give autographs...
...hate to lose him," said the warden. "Where else could I get an intelligent, dedicated man who is glad to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week?" For six and a half years, Orville Enoch Hodge had been a model prisoner at Menard Penitentiary. The jovial Illinois state auditor who was talked of as a future Governor until he was caught embezzling $1,450,000 from the taxpayers, spent his time teaching classes on how to run a bulldozer, broadcasting as the prison's disk jockey. Now 58 and leaving on parole, Hodge was headed for Granite...