Madera Tribune, Number 70, 23 April 1952 — Convicts' Demand Met By Warden In Jail Riot [ARTICLE]

Convicts' Demand Met By Warden In Jail Riot

JACKSON' Mich.— (TIM —Mutineers in an embattled cell i block at Southern Michigan prison spurned surrender today j despite the warden's promise that all their demands for bet- j ter treatment would be fulfilled. The 173 incorrigibles—killers, diseased mind offenders of societycontinued to hold their 10 prison guard hostages, apparently awaiting further assurances there would be no reprisals and clarification of one of their demands Warden Julian Frisbie bowed to their 11 point manifesto in a dramatic. 45-minute telephone conversation early today with the holdouts' spokesman 28 year old criminal psychopath Earl Ward. The mutineers in cell block 15, who touched off the worst riot in the world s largest w ailed prison Sunday, demanded an end to alleged brutality, a change in the parole system, better living conditions. a guarantee of no reprisals and other concessions as the “price" of surrender. “I'm going along with you on all of these things I've told you that and 1 mean it.” Frisbie told Ward over the prison telephone connecting the administration with the besieged cell block. State Correction Commissioner Earnest Brooks implied that authorities now were prepared to wait them out. “Time is on our side,” he said. '•They're going to have to come out sooner or later ” As the dramatic bargaining went on by telephone, state troopers quelled a flare-up in another cell block wrecked by the riot of 2.600 inmates Monday. No one was seriously hurt in the melee, i Frisbie said peace was being decayed by discussions over a new 1 parole plan, one of the points contained in the 11-point manifesto broadcast over the prison's public address system yesterday by two of the cell block's spokesmen. The prisoners freed one of the 11 hostages they then held in re‘turn for the safe conduct ol the .two spokesmen