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...September 1949, after his trial, Mindszenty was suffering acutely from "my old disease, my thyroid disturbance." Transferred to Budapest's Conti Prison, he was held in solitary confinement for four years, the cells on each side of him empty to prevent wall-tapping communication. His cell was "small and crumbling. There was a straw mat to sleep on, a table, a stool, a small bucket for one's needs and another for water." While in solitary, "I received no mail, read no newspapers and no books except my breviary and my Bible . . . Each day I said my rosary...
...Jackson mess hall and led a riotous mob of prisoners on a five-day orgy of destruction. Jackson, with a convict population of some 5,000 men, labeled Jim Hudson the "most dangerous and assaultive man in this institution." Transferred to Marquette, he was confined permanently to his cell...
Trial by Fire. It was 5:30 p.m. on a mid-November day. Hudson sat quietly in his cell, eating off a tray. Other prisoners were lining up in the corridor outside, almost ready for the march to the mess hall. Suddenly, through the iron bars of Hudson's door came a soaking spray of lacquer thinner, followed by a lighted match. The cell exploded in flame, searing through 25 coats of paint on the wall, melting an overhead electric light-and sending Jim Hudson, afire, shrieking in agony, to rage at the bars that held...
...Gomulka in twelve years in the party had done all the things that Communists do, infiltrated trade unions, spread propaganda under the name of Comrade Duniak. He had been sentenced to four years "for arousing mobs to a dangerous state" and for conspiracy against the state, and shared a cell with six other Communists. Differing with them on minor ideological grounds, he refrained from speaking to them for 18 months...
Guilt & Innocence. Among the thousands of refugees from the Soviet terror was a 68-year-old Englishwoman whom rebels had released from seven years' solitary confinement in a 4 ft. 6 in. wide, fungus-ridden AVH cell. Said onetime lecturer and translator Dr. Edith Bone: "I was a 'secret prisoner.' No one in the world knew about me except the secret police. There are many thousands, perhaps millions, living, rotting like that in Iron Curtain countries." Explained Dr. Bone: "I was innocent [of the charge of being a British spy] but I was also guilty...