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36 Prisoners Shaffer Legs Wifh SledgesBUFORD. Ga., lt;ft Thirty-sixprisoners broke their own lees | with 10-pound sledge hammers yesterday in protest against working conditions at Rock Quarry | State Prison, the '‘Little Alcatraz of the Georgia penal system.Jack Forrester, state director ofcorrections, said a prison doctor |■ told him 29 white and seven Negro inmates shattered hones in their leg* during an afternoon rest period at a rock quarry vs here they were working half a mile from theprison.He said the men placed their legs on rocks and started whacking away with the sledge hammers normally used to crush rock at the 34-acre quarry. There were no cries of pain, he s«id.Guards watching the 189 prisoners in the fenced-in quarry were , taking a rest at the time and said they did not notice what had hap- i pened until they ordered the men |back to work.Warden Hubert Smith said the Injured men told him after the incident that they felt their wheelbarrows were too heavily loaded and the sun was too hot. Temperatures were reported in the low 90s at the time.Rock Quarry prison was built , in 1919 Forrester said it is used ‘ to house incorrigible prisoners and 1 that men hard to handle are sent *there from other prisons in the 1 state.
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Lawrence Daily Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Tue, Jul 31, 1956
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