Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was called last month to testify before a Cincinnati grand jury investigating a prison escape, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin refused to appear. He was a key witness because he had been kidnaped and held hostage by two convicts who had broken out of the Lucasville, Ohio, penitentiary...
McCrackin did more than refuse to show. To protest conditions in the prison, he ignored a subpoena, made a squad of five policemen carry him physically to jail, and began a hunger strike that lasted three weeks and forced his transfer to a hospital for intravenous feeding...
...necessity, every institution--a hospital, a school, a prison--has rules which facilitate its operation. The Harvard Corporation has its rules. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has its rules, and these are the rules which most affect and twist our lives here...
Guillermo Novo and Alvin Ross Diaz could receive life prison terms and Novo's brother Ignacio faces a maximum 13 years in prison after his conviction on two counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of covering up the crime...
Dullness and indifference are the reali ties of prison, but these, of course, are poor ingredients for a movie...