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The prisoners are proud of their efforts in running the prison. Sadlers also lists the available courses at the school.

Observer report from April 22, 1973; shift 11-7; Maximum blocks. Sandler describes an incident between an prisoner and an officer following the return of officers to the prison.

One prisoner is cleaning the hospital since the administration won't hire a janitor to do so.

Sangrey chats with a guard about prisoners and other guards.

Prisoners and guards alike express worry about the continuation of the observer program.

Little movement through the prison lobby.

There are few observers for this shift. A member of the NPRA Hospital Committee thinks that guards perpetrated another prisoner's seizure the other day.

Guards were withheld from duty for an unknown reason. Several inmates reported unlocked doors that they believed were a trap to set up an "escape".

There are rumors of tear gas shells, guards returning, and Boone leaving.

There was no medication the last night, and breakfast had been delayed, which prisoners suspect to be guard harassment.

Schoenberg meets two guards who claim to have "shivs" confiscated from Block 10. However, nobody else corroborates this story. There was as separate incident in which a prisoner who was promised medication never got it.

Guards are polite to Schweisberg and inmates. While conditions in the cell blocks are bad, the food has improved since the beginning of the observer program. One Black prisoner feels that there is racial bias with regard to who gets to take part in…

Citizen observers describe concerns surrounding return of guards and incidents with a guard and a group of prisoners.

Citizen observers describe concerns surrounding return of guards and incidents with a guard and a group of prisoners.

Prisoners protested about medication being disbursed late. Another prisoner reported how guards would try to get Black and white prisoners to fight.

Prisoners protested about medication being disbursed late. Another prisoner reported how guards would try to get Black and white prisoners to fight.