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: . wee my fi a” ace oe, Se reflect specifically who was responsible for this particular comment, and - Penitentiary officials could not furnish any additional information. Warden JOSEPH Ww. SANFORD advised that D'ANDREA, DE LUCIA, and ee CALPAGNA were continually bragging and throwing their weight around, which «+= *- caused the other prisoners to look up to them and try to imitate their ore actions, thereby tending to lower prison morale, He explained further 2 : : 7 wy that these individuals were former gang leaders and because of their wide eee a publicity some of the prisoners thought anything they said was righte He -. 5 informed that D'ANDREA had three disciplinary reports, namely, conniving to have an inmate in the prison laboratory return a positive report showing sugar in DE LUCIA's urine so he could get on the diet line, dated May 27, 1944; on September 10, 1944, he was cited for violating his diet restriction when found drinking coffee which he was specifically instructe..!: ed not to do; on duly 26, 1945, he had a disciplinary report for refusing .~ + 2 to mop the floor which he had tracked after being ordered to do so by an “~¥. % officers He told the officer he was, because of his physical condition, oan unable to do this type of work. He was placed in punitive segregation for this latter offense and was in this status when transferred from Atlanta, _ * a ia . As to the statement in referenced report to the effect that constant - i pressure had been exerted by friends and attorneys of these prisoners to | effect their transfer from the time of their arrival in Atlanta, Warden = ¢. a\\ SANFORD advised that the pressure he had reference to was exerted by the - ; prisoners themselves when being interviewed by officers at the Penitentia He explained that on every occasion when they talked with any of the prison ~ ’ officers they requested to be transferred to Leavenworth so as to be near their people and their people could visit them often without too much \\oeek expenses He stated these prisoners had no friends visiting them except © on close relatives, and as far as he knew none of the visiting relatives had , brought any pressure to have them transferred. He related that only two : attomeys, namely A. BRADLEY“EBIN and WILLIAMOSTEVART, visited the prison- erse He explained that another inmate whose name he did not recall had told him that CBEN was bringing pressure to have the prisoners transferred fram Atlanta to Leavenworth. However, he did not know specifically what sort of pressure this prisoner had reference to, He stated that Attorney EBEN had talked with him and requested that these prisoners be transferred, but. the request was not granted at that time, Concerning the statement previously made by Warden SANFORD to the ae * effect that good time had been taken from these prisoners because of ee '. Anfractions of the rules, he advised upon reinterview that on June 27, 1944, 22S) Be ~ 2 SS -pevo- 133 | mH, f=tt . : oe re - - * "= - . + e <*> iw. Mk ee 4 ate Me Biren —. ee, —_ * Me. age je we is te . Ca a eee me . . +, ° ne os es ee ee ie ea ol i i he al > . +s ne ae life . ~ _o. _.