RIOT IN PRISON
BUILDINGS SET AFIRE QUELLED WITH LOSS OF LIFE NEW YORK, 18th March. A message from Joliet (Illinois) states that dramatic and tragic scenes were enacted in the new State prison to-day when 1800 convicts, taking their cue from inmates of the old prison, who rioted last Saturday, destroyed seven buildings by, fire. Tho rioters were cheeked only by tho rifles of the National Guard. Four deaths among the convicts and the wounding of several guards resulted. Both uprisings were* as a protest against tho Parole Board, which has been inflicting heavy sentences. The prisoners beat the guards in the furniture factory, and drove off the chaplain, who pleaded with thorn to return to their cells. The warden, unarmed, rushed into the yard and urged them to go back, but was treated with jeers.
The rioters went from plant to plant, setting iires everywhere. From tho machine shop they collected missiles which were used against the guards and the State soldiery, who finally subdued the prisoners. "What we want is a new Parole Board," tho prisoners shouted even as they retreated upon the first volley. Tho incendiarism of the howling mob has been responsible for a loss of 300,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 7
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202RIOT IN PRISON Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 7
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