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Prisoners complain about the inadequate education facilities, as well as the library being taken away.

Prisoners complain about the inadequate education facilities, as well as the library being taken away.

Conditions are the same as before. Two prisoners complain that transportation won't take them to Norfolk, where they are supposed to undergo medical treatment.

Citizen observer describes the concerns and reasons for possible shakedowns.

Citizen observer describes the concerns and reasons for possible shakedowns.

Reports prisoners' concern over another shakedown and the possibility that Commissioner Boone may be replaced by someone less fair. Guards are cooperative.

Observer describes his overnight shift and discloses a request communicated to him by an prisoner.

There is an incident in which a prisoner is "tearing up" his cell.

Private due to names.

Prisoners are concerned about the lack of workers in the kitchen. Bigelow has a conversation with a Black prisoner about the use of Talwin in the prison as a personality-changing drug and tranquilizer.

The prison is tense, as the rules and regulations regarding guards and prisoners are in flux. Prisoners are not allowed in cell blocks until the necessary calls were made; even then, prisoners were not allowed in cells.

Guards and prisoners pass through.

Guard was respectful to prisoners. Lindstrom asks one prisoner about a piece of contraband that was given publicity in the news after a shakedown.

Prisoners complained of packages being held up. Moreover, they need somewhere to sell the goods they make in avocation, and the gym floor is only half usable.

A prisoner asks for the heat to be turned down. Moreover, prisoners are frustrated over the furlough program. Lloyd expresses that the shops need a better artist to make the work salable.

Prisoner suspects that guards stole the medication.

Citizen observer describes communications between citizen observers and shift coordinators. He describes an incident.

Citizen observer describes communications between citizen observers and shift coordinators. He describes an incident.

Prisoners believe that an unlocked door to the yard is a set-up/trap. Moreover, they are angry that observers are not making "corrective reports" to refute misinformation in the press. One prisoner became potentially suicidal and was brought to the…

Prisoners believe that an unlocked door to the yard is a set-up/trap. Moreover, they are angry that observers are not making "corrective reports" to refute misinformation in the press. One prisoner became potentially suicidal and was brought to the…