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Maximum security blocks are deemed inadequate due to the size of rooms, broken windows, and poor showers.

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Maximum security blocks are deemed inadequate due to the size of rooms, broken windows, and poor showers.

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Guards do not listen to prisoner requests. For Branch, the guards appeared hostile to him personally.

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Guards do not listen to prisoner requests. For Branch, the guards appeared hostile to him personally.

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Prisoner morale is high, but some complain that their mail is being delayed and that guards are reading it. One guard reports bottles being thrown at him, but Trachy finds no evidence of this.

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Prisoner morale is high, but some complain that their mail is being delayed and that guards are reading it. One guard reports bottles being thrown at him, but Trachy finds no evidence of this.

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Prisoners spend most of their time loitering around. They harbor resentment toward the old guards, but get along with the trainee. Black and white prisoners ate separately at lunch.

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Prisoners spend most of their time loitering around. They harbor resentment toward the old guards, but get along with the trainee. Black and white prisoners ate separately at lunch.

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Heating is inconsistent, but food has improved.

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Heating is inconsistent, but food has improved.

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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…

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Prisoners and guards have a "friendly tolerance" toward each other. Prisoners also display a racial group cohesiveness.

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Prisoners and guards have a "friendly tolerance" toward each other. Prisoners also display a racial group cohesiveness.

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Prisoners work in the printing shop, computer shop, and brush shop.

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Prisoners and guards are friendly, though prisoners exhibit low morale.

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Prisoners suspect that guards are being lenient as a set up to encourage prisoners to make escape attempts. The prisoners working in the kitchen have not been paid since November, and there is generally not enough work for everyone.

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Guards and prisoners are friendly, but inmates have little organized activity to engage in.

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Prisoners complain of guard harassment and the lack of freedom they have in moving around.

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Baker heard a loud bang, which the guards also investigated; nothing was found.

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Guards and prisoners get along well, though there is tension and prisoner morale is low.

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