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...College presently enjoys the unique, though somewhat confusing position of being considered an overgrown Communist cell, and, simultaneously, a pesthole of Fascism...
After five days of riot and siege, 170 victorious holdouts at Southern Michigan State Prison strutted forth from their barricades in Cell Block 15 last week with a signed statement of total surrender by prison and state officials. Guards and state troopers, by specific demand of the prisoners, stayed discreetly in the background as the convicts released their eight hostages, submitted to a search for weapons by their own leaders, then marched triumphantly to the mess hall for a victory banquet of steak, ice cream (imported from the outside) "and all the trimmings...
...retaliation for the riot). But the convicts held out for two more days, quibbling over details and assurances, glorying in the publicity and the anxious discomfort of officials-and knifing and roughing four convicts who wanted to call it quits, while 35 homosexual convicts ran wild through the cell block...
Salvador Paz Guerra, forger and prison-jumper, who had smilingly lighted a cigarette when a judge gave him 20 years, had to be dragged from his cell. Jose Colombres, a six-foot, pock-marked murderer, knelt tearfully and begged to stay. When a convicted murderess' name was called, she split the air with a scream, "Virgin of Guadalupe, have mercy...
...noon one day last week, by special messenger from the Bureau of Prisons, came orders for a cuerda of 215 prisoners. The grapevine quickly spread the dread word. In cell block C, the Black Palace's toughest cons beat out the prison's nervousness in a clomping rhythm of heavy shoes. Off-duty guards rushed back to double the vigil; desperate inmates have been known to head off exile to the Three Marys by knifing fellow felons, thereby turning themselves into murderers awaiting trial rather than convicts eligible for island exile...