PRISON RIOT
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) SAN QUENTIN (California), Aug. 28. San Quentin prison guards today drove about 800 demonstrating prisoners into their cells with tear-gas after nine offices were damaged by arson, prison officials said. The prisoners began a sitdown strike in the prison recreation yard after breakfast to press a dozen demands issued by black prisoners during an experimental Superior Court hearing yesterday within the prison walls. Prison authorities yesterday refused to discuss demands by 100 black militants for appointment of a black warden and the release of all alleged “political prisoners" from San Quentin. San Quentin has been at the centre of controversy since a shooting incident at the nearby San Rafael courthouse earlier this month left a judge and three other men dead, two of them black San Quentin inmates trying to escape.
On Monday, in an unprecedented security move, five prisoners went to a court hearing inside San Quentin — the first courtroom ever set up in a California prison.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32386, 27 August 1970, Page 15
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