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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1971
Page
3
California corrections director Raymond Procunier announced a hard line to curb revolutionary inmates. Visitors and certain publications will be restricted as guards boost security after the San Quentin killings. Attorneys and private investigators face licensing, and tape recorders may be banned for interviews.
Angela Davis argues George Jackson elevated the prison struggle to a national agenda. She notes Jackson and his brother were killed in the San Quentin escape attempt, while Davis and Ruchell Magee face charges from a 1970 Marin County shootout. Davis cites Jackson as a leader shaping black and brown political consciousness and inspiring prison reform efforts.
Autopsies detail agonizing deaths of six killed during Saturday prison bloodbath at San Quentin. Coroner reports Jere Graham Frank De Lenn Paul Krasenos John Lynn Ronald Kane and inmate George Jackson died from razor wounds gunshot and garrote injuries. Investigators note wounds suggest one assailant familiar with target areas.
Funeral services are planned for San Quentin guard Paul W. Krasnes and Black Panther George Jackson after Saturday’s prison escape attempt that left four others dead. Krasnes, a 22-year veteran, will be remembered at Lady of Loreto Church in Novato, while Jackson’s mother Georgia Bea arranged services in Oakland. Jackson, 29, viewed as a Black Panther member, is to be buried beside his younger son Jonathan in Mt. Vernon Illinois after services in Oakland.
The United Prisoners Union urged a special committee including ex-convicts and newsmen to probe the killing of George Jackson and two others at San Quentin. The group urged transfers for witnesses and interviews with inmates on death row and at the Adjustment Center. They claimed Jackson was set up and suggested a guard could have smuggled the gun.
Borg 40 a junior high physics teacher at Booth Jeanne High School Elmira. He was shot twice after stopping his car near Times Square by a man who emerged and ordered him into the back seat. He died 45 minutes later at a hospital. Borg left wife Winner and two adult children Peggy and Stephen Jr. in shock and anger rose from Mayor Lindsay.
Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal urged a congressional investigation into federal food inspection programs after botulism-tainted soup was found twice in two months. Campbell Soup recalled 200,000 cans of chicken vegetable soup packed July 14. Bon Vivant vichyssoise linked to a fatal botulism case earlier.
Soledad State Prison officials began lifting inmate restrictions after the weekend escape attempt at San Quentin. Associate Superintendent Chuck Stowell said the 1,700 inmates would face restrictions easing by Tuesday and visits by relatives would resume, with non-relative visits still allowed only after search.
Governor Reagan denounced the San Quentin guard killings as savage and senseless and ordered his administration to take all measures to stop violence inside California prisons. He supported tough new steps by Corrections Director Procunier, sent condolences to the guards’ families, and ordered half staff at the Capitol flags.
Cincinnati dispatch reports ex-Quentin guard Sidney Teneyek, a former officer from 1945 to 1983, condemns psychiatrists and sociologists for relaxing rules that let George Jackson hide a weapon in an Afro hairdo. Teneyek says leniency cost lives and asserts prison officials should scrutinize their approach.
The Pentagon ordered a broad 75,000 veteran training expansion under Project Transition at a cost likely exceeding 100 million dollars. The Army will establish Transition in Vietnam on a crash basis and extend efforts to overseas sites and the United States. Volunteers receiving discharge will gain job counseling, education, vocational training and job-finding aid, with treatment for drug abuse participants eligible.
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