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When Whitley took the wardenship, he signed on for three years. Extending his stay, he says, depends on how much he feels he can accomplish. It is clear Whitley wants more: more medical, culinary and maintenance staff, a bigger hospital, more classroom space. Like every other warden in America, though, he runs up against budget limitations. "This is shortsighted," he says. "What you send out of prisons is going to reflect what you had in them." If that includes the warden, Angola's graduates are now just a little more likely to come out fair, decent, straight up. Just like...
...watered down next to nothing in the legislature. I figured the only way I could get some of them into practice was to come to Parchman as superintendent." He did just that, using his political prestige and his friendship with Governor Ross Barnett to gain Parchman's wardenship in 1960. By last week Jones had proved one thing for certain: the reformer's life is a hard...
...Academy of Political and Social Science notes that the amount of protection society receives from the death penalty is nebulous and uncertain. No doubt there are some incorrigibles, but the majority of prisoners seem curable. Indeed Warden Lawes once noted: "I know of none released during my wardenship at Sing Sing who reverted to crime...
...basic evil of capital punishment is its discrimination against the poor and against certain racial groups. By virtue of their wealth, the rich can retain able counsel, while the poor usually find themselves with a court appointed attorney. Warden Lawes wrote: "In the twelve years of my wardenship, I have escorted 150 men and one woman to the death chamber and the electric chair. . . They came from all kinds of homes and environments. In one respect, they were all alike. All were poor, and most were friendless. To what end or purpose were these victims sent to their premature deaths...
Even after he was President, Franklin Roosevelt took his wardenship seriously. St. James' vestry meetings were usually held on nights when he could be there and preside. He always kept the meetings going late, encouraging full discussion of such details as church finances (as troublesome to St. James' as to most small town parishes). An unusual duty came when King George and Queen Elizabeth sent the church a morocco-bound copy of the King James Version of the Bible as a memento of their 1939 visit. Senior Warden Roosevelt and Vestryman Gerald Morgan were appointed a committee...