CELLS AND CIGARETTES
PRISONERS DEMAND TOBACCO!^
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) r
NEW YOBK, 21st June.
News from Lansing, Kansas, stateji;: that 328 inmates of the Kansas ''-'Statai Penitentiary have begun an nnusiali strike to obtain.cigarettes,- the'liseoCj which was once barred throughput'thej State by law. Now they can.'bV_leg«j ally sold and consumed, '■ due 'to^tlje re<j peal of the statute.. Prisoners-who-af»j workers in coal mines, after•/'descend-j ing to-day, declined to reascend unicssi the Warden promised them cigarette?,! The strikers, who are foodies^ I'aiajiLijtf darkness, have retained with 'theiw fourteen guards and mine officials, anil sent a message over 'the 1 mine' teleM phone: "No cigarettes, no coat*' Thcyj' have declined to parley, and »re main-' taining silence., The reasons >gainsi£ the issuing of cigarettes are that- theyf make easy the smuggling of narcotics to prisoners/and add to the >kk ofi fire. ■ - ■ '....--' ■-■;■ ;•;,..■■■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 145, 23 June 1927, Page 11
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138CELLS AND CIGARETTES Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 145, 23 June 1927, Page 11
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