Browse Items · Walpole 1973 NPRA Digital Archive

Observer Report (Jeffrey Zesinger) May 8, 1973 - Handwritten

Prisoners express that they want to take responsibility for the prison. The shops need better equipment, and food is poor. Prisoners generally feel that guards have stayed in their sadistic ways and the the present prison system is too stiff.

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Observer Report (Jerome Rosenswaike) April 5, 1973 - Typed

Prisoners concerned about the potential for guard violence after the guards return

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Observer Report (Jerry Spafford) May 9, 1973 - Handwritten

Prisoners discuss getting off drugs. Another prisoner would like to be transferred.

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Observer Report (Jerry Ulrey, Frank Siellem, John Osler) April 18, 1973 - Typed

There are multiple reports of prisoners getting denied or delayed medical attention. One prisoner wants to get a furlough to audition at the New England Conservatory of Music.

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Observer Report (Jerry Ulrey) April 4, 1973 - Handwritten

Prisoner morale is good. In a few instances, prisoners weren't let out of their cells on time if they had to go to work in the morning.

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Observer Report (Jerry Ulrey) April 4, 1973 - Typed

Prisoner morale is good. In a few instances, prisoners weren't let out of their cells on time if they had to go to work in the morning.

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Observer Report (Jerry Ulrey) May 2, 1973 - Typed

There are inconsistencies in the invisible ink-wrist stamping procedure at the prison entrance that are causing some observers to be denied exit.

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Observer Report (Jerry Ulrey) May 9, 1973 - Handwritten

Prisoners have high morale, but are tense regarding what would happen in the event of the old guards returning. However, the trainee guards get along very well with prisoners.

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Observer Report (Jim A.) May 5, 1973 - Handwritten

There was trouble in one corridor. Guard harassment is the cause of most trouble.

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Observer Report (Jim Alt, Paul Goodwin) April 7 - Typed

Prisoners feel that the observer presence is minimizing harassment from guards. Moreover, cells are unclean, with broken windows and loose wires.

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Observer Report (Jim Birkhold) April 13, 1973 - Handwritten

Prisoners are worried about the return of the guards and feel like they are pawns in a political struggle.

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Observer Report (Jim Fenley) April 26, 1973 - Handwritten

There is a delay in the head count. Guards mostly just read magazines.

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Observer Report (Jim Hofacker) 1973 - Handwritten

Observers are not allowed to talk to the men in the prison. There is an incident of conflict in which a guard is punched.

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Observer Report (Jim Hofacker) April 4, 1973 - Typed

Some reporters came through the prison on a tour to write an article for BU News. Separately, prisoner morale is higher, though some complained about guard behavior.

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Observer Report (Jim Hofacker) April 9, 1973 - Typed

Citizen observer describes the aftermath of an incident between a not-well-regarded guard and a group of prisoners.

Observer Report (Jim Hofacker) April 9, 1973 - Handwritten

Citizen observer describes the aftermath of an incident between a not-well-regarded guard and a group of prisoners.

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Observer Report (Jim Hofacker) April 9, 1973 - Typed

Hofacker's observations include poor sanitary conditions in hallways and a packet of literature in the superintendent's office that had been passed out to prisoners by other observers.

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