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Article from ACLU The Docket: Volume 3, Number 3 (June, 1973)

The note conveys information from recent observers, including problems with guards, pickup of reports, and a request to call Waitkevich.

relatively calm night, prisoners drafted a petition for John Sibilowsky to be returned to general population.

Six members of the Prison Health Project quit due to the project's failure to address major problems like implementing prisoner input and standards for housing, sanitation, and nutrition.

A report on what to do with prisoners who are too dangerous for the rest of the prison system.

This bulletin instructs prisoners who are employed what to do when they report to work and how to handle potential retaliation from the administration.

The article describes the prisoners' uprising and damages done, as well as the entrance of state troopers into the prison. Four prisoners were injured, three from correction officers' shotguns.

State policemen entered Walpole to stop a prisoner uprising.

This article details the state police shakedown at Walpole in 1973.

Press Conference release detailing prisoners voluntarily locking up for 48 hours so D.A. Burke and other can shake down the prison to see if there is any of the alleged contraband Mr. Porelle said there was.

The Walpole Lifers' Group discusses the status of being a Lifer, as well as a report published by Massachusetts citizens calling for changes in sentencing procedures.

This statement from the NE (New England most likely) Prison Coalition describes the organization's commitment to prison reform and abolition.

This statement from the New England Prisoners Association criticized the proposed computerization of Massachusetts citizens' data out of concern for individual rights.

Flyer denouncing plan for regional "special offender" prison in New England, which would follow the START program in Missouri.

A report from a conference on criminal justice information systems. The writer notes that few of the speakers "questioned the 'justice' of the criminal justice system," and expresses concern about the future uses of the discussed technologies.