PRISON RIOT

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1931, Page 5

PRISON RIOT

FURTHER DETAILS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegruph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, March 18. A further mesasge from .Joliet (Illinois) states: —“Dramatic and tragic scenes were enacted in the new State , Prison here to-day, when eighteen hundred convicts, taking their cue from | the inmates of the old Prison, who rioted last Saturday, destroyed seven of the new buildings by fire, and were checked only by the rifles of the National Guard, Four deaths among the convicts and the wounding of several Guards resulted from both uprisings,” “Protesting against the Parole Board, which is inflicting heavy sentences, the prisoners beat the Guards in the furniture factory and drove off a chaplain, who pleaded with them to return to their cells. A warden, unarmed rushed, into the yard, and urged the men to go back, but he was treated with jeers. The rioters went from plant to plant, setting fires everywhere. From the machine shop they collected missiles, which they used against the Guards and the State soldiery, which subdued the rioters. “ ’What we want is a new Parole Board,’ the prisoners shouted, even as they retreated upon the first volley.”