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...plans to marry. He talks about the impossibility of getting nice clothes, radios and watches in Cuba today. He says he has been waiting 18 months to get out, and thinks it will be another eight months at least. Since he has lost his job, his girl sends him Wilkinson Sword razor blades from the U.S., which he sells illegally for a dollar apiece on the streets. He sips a soft-drink from a Coca-Cola bottle between boisterous gesticulations: "After a while," he says, with everyone else in the cafe looking and listening, "after a while, you get desperate...
...then Governor, John Dalton, sent in investigators to determine what had gone wrong. Nearly everything had. One day after a legislative committee issued a scathing report on conditions in the penitentiary, the warden shot himself. The state director of corrections left soon after, to be succeeded by Fred Wilkinson, 59, former deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and the first professional penologist ever to run the sprawling (seven institutions, 3,476 inmates) Missouri system...
...Wilkinson and his new warden, Harold Swenson, 58, a longtime associate in the federal system, quickly established a new climate. Knives and forks -hitherto forbidden as potentially dangerous weapons-joined spoons on the dining tables; fresh fruit appeared on the breakfast menu; shower rooms were placed at the end of each cell-block tier so that convicts could bathe daily instead of twice a week. Cheap transistor radios were put on sale. For the first time, maximum-security prisoners were allowed outdoors for recreation and supplied with pillows and mattresses instead of back-breaking straw ticks...
...real purpose of a prison, in Wilkinson's view, is not to keep prisoners happy-or even to keep them in-but to rehabilitate them. Everyone who can works at Missouri, and training and educational programs are being given top priority. Despite the reduced population, more inmates (710) are enrolled in rehabilitation programs now than ever before. The idea, of course, is to teach prisoners useful occupations, in the hope that most will never again see the inside of "Jeff City...
...school. Answered Cross: "We want to build a university of which the football team can be proud." He meant it as a joke, and the remark does seem inappropriate today: Oklahoma's football fortunes have been on the decline since the resignation of Coach Charles ("Bud") Wilkinson in 1964, while Cross has been steadily nudging his school toward standards of quality achieved by such state university giants as California, Wisconsin and Michigan...