Browse Items · Walpole 1973 NPRA Digital Archive

Observer Report (Jeff Lowenfels) April 9, 1973 - Handwritten

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

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Observer Report (George Longo) May 6, 1973 - Handwritten

Prisoner suspects that guards stole the medication.

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Observer Report (Malcolm Lloyd) April 28, 1973 - Handwritten

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.

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Observer Report (Malcolm Lloyd) April 10, 1973 - Typed

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.

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Observer Report (Paul Lindstrom) April 2, 1973 - Typed

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

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Observer Report (Margot Lindsay, Julia Kaufmann) April 2, 1973 - Typed

Guards and prisoners pass through.

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Observer Report (Paul Lindetrom) May 31, 1973 - Handwritten

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.

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Observer Report (Brother William Linakis, Albert Bigelow) May 1, 1973 - Typed

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.

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Observer Report (Brother William Linakis) April 11, 1973 - Handwritten

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

Private due to names.

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Observer Report (Brother William Linakis) April 14, 1973 - Handwritten

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

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Observer Report (Bro. William Linakis) April 7 - Typed

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

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Observer Report (Brother Bill Linakis) April 7, 1973 - Handwritten

Citizen observer describes the concerns and reasons for possible shakedowns.

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Observer Report (Brother Bill Linakis) April 7, 1973 - Typed

Citizen observer describes the concerns and reasons for possible shakedowns.

A Call for Renewed Citizen Participation at Walpole

Open letter to Walter Waitkevich from multiple prisoner groups requesting that community interactions with prisoners at Walpole be reinstated.

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Observer Report (Ralph Lewis) April 2, 1973 - Typed

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.

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