Browse Items · Walpole 1973 NPRA Digital Archive

Anonymous Observer Report

Observer report from April 19, 1973; Shift 7-3. Author notes the lack of a furlough policy and the prison's residents' belief that one should be instituted.

Tags: Group 2, WMK

Observer Report (John Murphy) June 19, 1973 - Handwritten

Physical Object

Police begin leaving the grounds without entering the prison. Waitkevitch says that the prisoners refused to return to their cells after breakfast, which had not been asked of them. Guards do not accept the man sent to replace Waitkevitch.

Tags: Group 3, KY

Observer Report (William E. Wholley) April 17, 1973 - Handwritten

Physical Object

Describing prisoner complains about lack of representation at Walpole

Observer Report of Artie Johnson

Duplicate with different spacing and errors in the same folder, not stapled together

Tags: PB

Addendum to Observer Report of Galen Gilbert

Tags: PB

Observer Report (Bill Bloom) March 26, 1973 - Typed

Tags: PB

Observer Report (Mike Amato) April 16, 1973 - Handwritten

Describes how the guards acted during overnight shift and how the lights stayed on in one cell block

Tags: Group 2, JKS

Page Two of Observer Guide

Page two of a guide for observers, seems to be distributed by Walpole to observers

Tags: Group 2, JKS

Observer Report (Don Driscoll) April 16, 1973 - Handwritten

Describes meal time and attitudes of prisoners toward guards returning

Tags: Group 2, JKS

Observer Report (Glenn M. Young) April 17, 1973 - Handwritten

Describes behavior of guards and apprehension about guards returning

Tags: Group 2, JKS

John Leahy Observer Report

Observer describes obstacles faced with guards regarding access to corridors and leaving prison.

Tags: SE

Albert Sears Observer Report

Observer discusses a sick prisoner in Block 10, cell 2, and their eventual removal to a hospital due to another prisoner's conversation with a lawyer.

Tags: SE