Bullets Splat
Near Cons in
Quarry Prison
Br THOMAS CHASE
HIFORD, Oa , Sept. 15 (JL-The
guard in the tarpaper tower on
the cliff overlooking the (welter
ing rock quarry lifts his rifle,
sights carefully and fires into the
quarrf floor 100 yards below.
The bullet (patters the granite
dust .near the feet of a convict,
abruptly halting his shuffling
walk ' The prisoner looks up,
waves weary arm at the tower,
receives an answering wave and
continues , his way to a wooden
latrine at the side of the quarry.
Th prisoner forgot to obtain
permission. If he doesn't return
promptly, another shot may whine
across the broiling rock pit.
This it Rock Quarry prison, 40
miles erst of Atlanta, where re
cently 41 convicts smashed their
h":s with sledge hammers.
Why?
Two Investigations were held to
find the answers, one by a joint
legislative committee, the other
hy top Georgia Board of Correc-.
lions officials acting under orders
of Gov. Marvin Griffin.
Protest Claimed
The prisoners claimed their leg
breaking was a protest against
unbearably hard work in the hot
sun and brutalities and indignities
at the hands of guards.
Guards and prison officials
termed the incidents a play lor
public sympathy in an effort to
have the prison for incorrigible!
abolished.
The prison itself is a modern
while ' sprawling structure, neat
and clean, with flowers pl-nted by
the entrance. Here the prisoners
sleep and eat two of their daily
meals, unless confined to solitary
cells In "the hole." where they
get bread and water and, for
extra tough cases, a regular meal
onlv once every three days.
Clubs and Rifles
Most of the complaints origin
ale In the rock quarry half a mile
away, a vast excavation ringed by
an eight-foot barbed wire fence
and patrolled by rifle -toting
guards in the tower and guards
carrying fie-foot, inch-thick clubs
on the quarry floor.
The prisoners are in the quarry
from 6 a m. to 6 p.m.. 54 lays
a week. They have two rfburs off
for lunch, served in the quarry,
and a half-hour rest period in the
morning and another in the after
noon. ll was during one of these rest
periods that the 20 pound sledge
hammers were employed on the
li js of 41 convicts. The men were
taken to the Georgia Stale Prison
Hospital at Reidsville, where doc
tors found that 34 had broken legs
and the rest cuts and bruises. Two
more shattered their legs when
told they would be returned to the
prison.
Tighter DisclpUa
The legislative committee held
heatings at Butord and Reidsville
and reported that "allegations of
cruelty and brutality had not been
sur itantiated." It recommended
that discipline be tightened and
th guards and super isnrs stop
swearing at convicts and desist
from occasionally niffing thrrn
Two days alter the report was
mi', two o( the conucts who got
ill! with only bruises in the fir-.!
slider- hammer episode joined
their buddies by shattering their
Iejs.
Gov. Ciriffin ordered the second
prnbe. saying. "I will no stand
for any inhumane treatment of
prisoners We don't want anything
that smacks of the Dark Ages."
Six days later this committee
issued similar recommendations
for tightening discipline and pro
posed that Deputy Warnen Doyle
Smiffi he transferred. "Boss
Doyle. as he was known to the
men on the rock pile, is a 250
pound. cigar-smoking six footer,
who admitted slapping and cuss
ing out convicts but denied kick
ing them. He was subsequently
named warden at th Putnam
prisoners.
Visits Controlled
The governor's investigation al
so turned up the unique method
of controlling latrine visits at the
rok quarry.
"The tower guards," reported
the RnM-d of Corrections, "ai in
sli rted to shoot in front of pris
oners who leae th.ir wtrk details
without getting permission from
the foreman of the tower by mak
ins a sign to the guard that they
desire to go out of the work com
pound to the rest room.
"The only incident In which
shooting was done, was done for
either the protection of a prisoner
or to stop a man from leaving his
work detail without having sig
naled and before having received
an answer from the tower guard
that permission was grant
ed These incidents were verv
few."
Smith insisted it was 9 form of
communication, not random tar
get practice.
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