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Keep up with thescience that changes travel, the world, diplomacy, apace —and the way we live and work, ** ReadDailyStartingMondayJanuary 14th Death at San Quentin Spurs ActionContinued from Page 1 v ember quoted prison officials2S 122fci * N* V *• V •- *■ »oil ere row ding w ould bring idleness and eventually murder and even not Richard A McGee, director of the State Department ofCorrections, said m Sacramento that the four knifings are not related but rather were the result of * a sort of mass psychology ”Said McGee * IVe orderedthe prison to beef up the guard personnel and to hold tighter control over materials that could be turned into weapons You can never really eliminate weapons but you can try ”“ONE MEASURE”• I don t know what more Itan do ” McGee added “Oneconnective measure we cantake is to remove 1,000 menfrom San Quentin — buildanother prison ”Yarden Fred Dickson wasrot sure that emergencymeasures would solve the problem. *'I don't know that if we had another hundred guai ds w e could step this sort of thing 1 think we have an adequate number (340) for a normal operation.“But the same thmg could happen with 50 guards m theupper yard,” Dickson said,instead of the four to six on duty there now FEW COUNSELORSSan Quentm has only a dozen correctional counselors fa ratio of one to every 500 inmates) for rehabilitating prisoners The ideal counselor-pnsoner ratio, is one to 50, prison authorities nationally sayDickson said tension in San Quentin probably would continue for a day or so following Lopez’ death It had continued unabated since the slavmgs of Abel A. Nevarez on Dec 12. Marcel A. Perez on Dec 16 and Thomas Devers on Tuesday.wLopez, described by prison officials as a chronic troublemaker died from wounds inflict ed by a double-edged bayonet-like knife fashioned from a piece of iron The v eapon was found near hisOURNEWACE£ySPILHAUSandEVANSbody in the prison exerciseyardGuard W R Bland witnessed the killing from a gun post less than 100 yards away He saw a “Latin type” grab Lopez, spm him around and stab him Bland fired a warning shot that stopped thefight Lopez staggered about 75 feet and coliapcedNevarez was killed under bleachers on the athletic field, Perez in the northwest end of the upper yard and Devers in the * skyline” gymnasium on the top floorThe new nme-point program includes such precautions as limiting the use of the gym-nasium to men enrolled m special programs This would exclude maximum-custodv convicts
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Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California, US
Sun, Dec 24, 1961
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