Word: winson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the turreted greystone walls of Birmingham's Winson Green prison, the night guard made his regular 15-minute check, looking through the "judas hole" in the door of the maximum security cell where the lights burned all the time. He was satisfied to see the prisoner lying under his blanket, eyes closed, chest gently rising and falling. It was 3:04 a.m. and all was quiet...
Appalled, the British government kept the search going anyhow, and at the same time opened an investigation into the baffling question of how security at Winson Green had so easily been breached. An initial conclusion: officials were so intent on preventing prisoners from getting out that they had never even considered the problem of someone breaking...