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...tiny, heat-sodden office building of the Cartersville (Ga.) State Prison camp sat Warden Arthur W. Clay: a stocky, tight-lipped man with hair clipped high about his ears, his white shirt open at the neck, his wash trousers hitched up above the garterless white socks...
After the convicts finished, Big Jim Bryant and everyone else on the prison staff blandly denied the stories. Warden Clay, who used to be a farmer before he got his $160-a-month job, said...
...last week the "frame-up" showed signs of blasting Georgia's prison system out of its antiquated, sadistic, scandal-ridden past. Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall, trying hard to erase the black marks of the Talmadge regime, turned the Cartersville investigation into a study of all State prisons. First step: suspension of Warden Clay and Guard Bryant. Second: a tour by legislative leaders, to learn what other State prison systems had been up to since Oglethorpe first brought his oppressed debtors to the New World...
While U.S. juvenile delinquency booms (an estimated increase of over 20% in the past two years), adult crime has slumped. Wartime is emptying many a U.S. prison cell because: 1) many a potential or actual criminal is now under military discipline, 2) young men not in the Army are too busy or too well paid in war jobs to be tempted by "easy money" crimes...
...prison gates opened to admit prisoners returning from work. "Their sentry followed. . . . Four hands were stretched towards me behind my comrades: Marquet held my brief case; Finot held a wallet with my money and papers in it. Moineau and David held nothing but their fingers. . . . They felt rough, warm and kind. At this moment the ball hit the ground, two of the players slipped and fell, and Duclos ran towards Desprez with his fists raised . . . knocked him down brutally." The guards rushed up to intervene. Shedding his prison overcoat, Hélion "shot out" of the gate...