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The kitchen has a "loose control system" and suffers from poor inventory management. Moreover, cadets and prisoners alike have complaints about a certain cadet.
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Murphy criticizes the search and frisking procedure upon entering the prison.
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Nickerson goes through the avocation area.
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Dunn writes about a prisoner who is in the hospital for various injuries.
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The observers report on various situations such as a hunger strike against specific officers, an issue with the Public Safety Department, and the lack of toothbrushes for new admits.
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Prisoners are running Walpole well. However, there are some plumbing problems caused during the lock-up that have not been repaired.
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Strouse hears a story from a guard of a group of prisoners raping an observer, but this claim is doubted by everyone else; prisoners suggest that it may have been made up to intimidate observers.
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Baker writes on a specific guard (Charlie Rose), who he identifies as constantly "testing" him and trying to undermine the observers' procedures to weaken their project. Baker makes recommendations to the Ad Hoc Committee regarding observer shift…
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Winston writes to Reverend Rodman following his observer shift, expressing his interest in knowing what happens to the reports.
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Albert Bigelow reports on an uncooperative observer, and Eames mentions that there are very few armbands remaining.
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Rosenberg notes the specific and complex dynamics between prisoners, guards, and observers. The report ends with a list of statements from prisoners that expresses their positive stance toward the observer program, distain for the old guards, and…
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The article discusses a program of deinstitutionalization, which it identifies as "the only path to relative peace" at Walpole.
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A prisoner asks Cross to pass a cup of "home brew" to another cell; when Cross refuses, the prisoner is a bit upset. There is another incident in which a jar of fluid was found in a shower. Cross also observers a prisoner shooting up drugs.
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Tensions have decreased since the granting of yard privileges, though there is uncertainty about future procedural regulations.
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Shaw records the activities of the guard trainees.
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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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Prisoners conducted a cleanup in which they washed the floors and swept up trash. However, there are complaints mealtimes.
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Things are quiet, but conditions are dirty. The change of observer shifts is slow.
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The prisoners in 10 block began a hunger strike to push for a certain guard to leave the block.
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Collins notes the quantity of guards and where they were posted. He is upset that there is no phone to link inside and outside coordinators, which had been requested of Waitkevich weeks ago. One prisoner got in a fight with a guard, but was…
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