Browse Items · Walpole 1973 NPRA Digital Archive

Letter from Herbert Mitgang to Albert Bigelow - March 26, 1973

Mitgang, from The New York Times, thanks Bigelow for sending over an editorial from The Globe.

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Observer Report (Martin Gofen) April 23, 1973 - Handwritten

There is an incident with a bomb; an NPRA officer thinks the doctors are systematically cutting the supply of medication.

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Observer Report (Paul D. Aquavella) April 13, 1973 - Handwritten

One of the main problems is the poor distribution of medication. Additionally, the state holds all the monies in account for the prisoners.

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Observer Report (Paul F. Bolton) April, 1973 - Handwritten

One prisoner needed medication but was not receiving it.

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Walpole Tour Sign Up

Black students from Holy Cross are invited to tour Walpole.

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Observer Report (Bill Carr) April 13, 1973 - Typed

A teacher at the school reflects negatively upon the prisoners' character and learning.

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Observer Report (John Osler, Bob Duggan) April 14, 1973 - Typed

There was an incident in which a prisoner was given an overdose of pills, likely to incite a flare-up.

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Observer Report (Charles Birnbaum) April, 1973 - Typed

A prisoner received a letter about a deceased family member, but guards refused to let him call his family.

Observer Report (Dave Seaburn) April 12, 1973 - Typed

Prisoners protested about medication being disbursed late. Another prisoner reported how guards would try to get Black and white prisoners to fight.

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Observer Report (Ed Cheffey) April 11, 1973 - Typed

A guard is upset about the procedure for hiring civilians, as well as the procedure for prisoner emergency medical care.

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Observer Report (Ernest Tarquino) April 14, 1973 - Typed

One prisoner who has been prescribe medication has been taken off it and is in pain.

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Observer Report (Frank Gillespie) April 12, 1973 - Typed

Prisoners have nothing to do; Gillespie calls for rehabilitation programs to start.

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Observer Report (H. R. Wiechart) April 13, 1973 - Typed

Wiechert witnesses an initiation ritual in which prisoners were running around naked.

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Observer Report (Jack W. Christensen) April 12, 1973 - Typed

Christensen reports several problems, such as a prisoner's difficulties in getting a letter delivered, the lack of up-to-date law books, and the shortage of Talwin.

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Observer Report (James Xazanjian) April 15, 1973 - Typed

One prisoner needs a doctor, but wouldn't be admitted at Norfolk.

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Observer Report (Jay Fund) April 14, 1973 - Typed

A constable of Boston left a summons for the superintendent.

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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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