The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 275, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 1983 Page: 4 of 14
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P. 4, Perry Daily Journal Wednesday, Dec. 28. 1983
Prison Riot Was
Among State’s
DCeller
TO THE EDITOR
Top ’83 Stories
By J.B. BLOSSER winter nights were too cold and
United Press International the summer days too hot, with
Penal officials nervously cell temperatures sometimes
marked the 10th anniversary of reaching 120 degrees.
a bloody riot at the Oklahoma They had complained that
State Penitentiary at McAlester Warden Tim West was with-
this year and quelled a holding their mail and they
destructive uprising at the were not given enough food.
state’s model prison at Hominy. On Aug. 29, the inmates
The 4-year-old Conner Correc- stopped complaining.
tional Center symbolized a They tore the medium-
decade of court-ordered prison security facility apart. The
reform. In just hours, on a hot final count was $3.8 million in
August night, the showcase damages, one inmate dead and
facility was reduced to a mass 34 correctional officers and
of charred buildings, shattered inmates injured.
glass and human blood. Flames from inmate-set
Gov. George Nigh called out blazes lighted the shadowy
the National Guard, reminis- compound as fire trucks sat
Editor:
Well, another Christmas has
come and gone, and even if I am
confined to my room, it set me to
thinking, it was a fine Christmas.
The trees here at the nursing
home and the other decorations
were beautiful and I thought of
another Christmas at a school
house near Bressie. It was in 1904
or 1905. The tree was an oak,
trimmed with strips of red and
green flannel. There were recita-
tions by the children and treats
for each of them.
Now I wonder if the public
really realizes how much poor
people, people out of work and
people in the nursing homes real-
ly appreciate all of the fine and
helpful things that are done for
them all year long. We had lots
of groups singing carols. Both old
and young folk came several
evenings and sang carols. We
also had groups with musical
programs.
I thank my family and friends
for all they’ve done for us and
I’m sure all the patients feel the
same way, not just at Christmas,
but all year through. Perry sure-
BUSHS
KIWI
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TURIN, Italy (I’l’l, Italy’s
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celona. Spain
ly is a good place to live and so
is this state in which I’ve lived
since 1903.
Mary Leistikow
Green Valley Nursing Home
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cent of a 22-hour riot a decade
earlier at the 66-year-old "Big
Mac” maximum-security
prison. In that riot, four people
died and damage exceeded $20
million.
Conner prisoners were rest-
less and frustrated in a
crowded prison designed to
accommodate 400 inmates but
holding 748.
They had complained the
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Winters were much
warmer, somehow, before
the weather people devised
the Wind Chill Factor to talk
about.
First thing you can expect
from the baby New Year is
a bill for the kid's diaper
service.
If the New Year's pack-
age deal includes "booze
that flows like water."
chances are that’s what it
will be. mostly.
They call it “turkey with
all the trimmings " because
you had the turkey on
Thanksgiving and all the
trimmings will last you till
New Year’s.
One way to get a subcom-
pact to drive is to tailgate a
truck with air brakes.
Some days, when counting
your blessings, do you ever
feel you should be an expert
at fractions?
The handiest thing to have
around is a youngster,
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childproof medicine bottle
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useless outside the realm of
violence. The staccato of
gunfire and the scream of
police and ambulance sirens
shattered the night.
Hundreds of heavily armed
corrections officers, Oklahoma
Highway Patrol troopers and
military tried to restore order
in a chaotic prison that hours
before had been left in the care
of only 17 guards.
Conner inmates bussed out of
the debris to other Oklahoma
facilities were brought back to
help clean up the mess.
National Guard troops stayed
to cook hot dogs for the
working inmates and haul away
mounds of debris in their drab
green trucks.
It was an uprising sparked by
hot tempers, sweltering temper-
atures and what inmates
considered an unnecessary
delay in serving the evening
meal.
And it was another thorn in
the side of the state’s troubled
prison system, a system or-
dered cleaned up under the
watchful eye of a federal judge.
Nigh called a special legisla-
tive session to deal with the
problem. U.S. District Judge
Luther Bohanon called a
hearing to assess living condi-
tions at state prisons.
By year’s end Bohanon had
walked away from Oklahoma’s
prison problems, relinquishing
to a federal judge in Muskogee
his post as self-appointed
monitor of the state’s correc-
tions system.
An FBI investigation had
determined there was no
wrongdoing on the part of
corrections officers.
Legislators facing a state
financial crisis had rejected the
governor’s request for $5
million in new funds to rebuild
the prison and instead reappro-
priated $2.5 million from other
Corrections Department funds
to repair Conner.
There was a stipulation.
In defiance of an order by
Bohanon that prisoners have
access to law books, the
Legislature directed that none
of the money be used to rebuild
the law library that Conner
inmates burned to the ground
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Watson, Milo W. The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 275, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 1983, newspaper, December 28, 1983; Perry, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2253945/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.