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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1979
Page
2
Five guards at Washington State Penitentiary were fired after a tactical squad used unreasonable force to quell an inmate uprising. Seven other guards received personal conduct reports with seven days to respond. Warden James Spalding announced the findings from a state investigation into claims by six maximum security inmates of beatings in the segregation unit.
Walpole State Prison authorities stepped up observation of nine inmates in the maximum security block after wrist-slashing protests over two days. Five inmates slashed wrists Tuesday, two more Monday, with two others from a prior hostage incident. A doctor is on call, razor blades not yet confiscated, and inmates largely confined to cells except for visits and showers. A psychiatrist was offered but declined.
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