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The note conveys information from recent observers, including problems with guards, pickup of reports, and a request to call Waitkevich.

A record of observers from the Ad Hoc Committee

The observer gives recommendations for the organization of observer reports. They note that visitation is "lively," and that prisoners have requested that observers be stationed in the kitchen.

Prisoners have requested that observers be stationed in the kitchen.

The article discusses a program of deinstitutionalization, which it identifies as "the only path to relative peace" at Walpole.

A meeting agenda that includes a statement from the NPRA and discussion of the observer program.

Prisoners feel betrayed and that Waitkevitch was not upholding his end of the bargain; there were also rumors of state troopers entering the prison. Throughout much of the shift, prisoners broke windows and doors, set fires on the floor, etc. While…

The observer notes events like a shakedown in the minimum section, conversations with prisoners about their lawyers.

Notes on the treatment of special offenders; the writer expresses that the Curran Report poses "danger + must be exposed + demolished."