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* oe * * e prisoners kré marae Dp the ateps. r guard in the office maken certain of thelr identity. They want. te take sure they are getting the right: men, for it’s mighty hard to get-off “the rock” once you get on. “Thin,” sald Warden dohnaton, “we dress them in. The: “dressing them in” business las practiced at fleatraz serves &: | double purpose, Jt doesn't mean ‘what. it anunds Jike. Literally, ite lndressing them in. In the firat place, this speration provides the ‘guards an. spportunity to make a thorough: search for any Hidden weapous and, secondly, it serves further to deflate the prison- ers ego, Tt is lesson. No. 20 the course on ohedience, “T never saw 6 caked man yet whe could maintain any sort.of dignity,” said Warden. Johnston. “There is very Hitle egotisns left in a. man when you parade Klay before other rien bk his birthday wait.” Firm but dust ‘The doctors next.take the prison= e¢ fo: hand. He is given a caraple nfedicat- examination. This. nay tale apywhere from one to-10 days, dupe tite which time the prisoner remais [ ik quarantine, Durin rae é@ quarantine period, Watten mates. Lalks doth wy winoners The gray haired prison chief, with. years of experience: st Folzom and Ban Quentin behind bim, explains the rules of the prison fully and the convict fa impressed: , wlth the fact thas no fatractions will be tolerated, : "We try tobe tiem but Jud." War- den dobnston said, “We tell cha prisoners what they have to-do and that ae long as they obey the rules without queation sve'li get along te- gether, But ouce they try to vio- late w cule, then-we step on them." Tt w prisoner ia:tound to be da need of medical attention, he ts ao clanale fied and, according ta the ‘warden, receives better treatment than the saverage person on the outside. Conversation Restricted ] About this “rule of silence” —a rule {often complained of by departing | prisoners, - i. hi fl~ iwthere Tang, absolute rule of ; itpee, on: Altatrag” Warden Joh! gaton sald. “There are places whies { We do not permit tailing and thera | are places where wa do. “The. prisoners at work are al- Jowed to talk fa men in their own ‘shope-on. matters referring to their work, dn the yard there ia no re» striction to conversation during the recreation perlid, except when the men Rré en route ta and from their cells, “Gereral conversation: Is not Bere milfedin the mess hall during meala /or whe the nien are miacching in, ’ They ; are permitted to ask for fead ;to be passed them from the roan” ‘across the table or beside them. but. they cannot talk to a parson behind ; then or at'a distance away. “In the mess hall and at. work, conversation tacrestricted ta the abe solute necessity. Otherwise, they must-remain silent, “Tila ad-colled man breaking ‘rule of silence’ does not. exist throughout the prison.* Copyright, WF hy WAM. AL, Ine, i i i Pd coal * a ae. | | | : |