PRISONS: Steak & Ice Cream

After five days of riot and siege, 170 victorious holdouts at Southern Michigan State Prison strutted forth from their barricades in Cell Block 15 last week with a signed statement of total surrender by prison and state officials. Guards and state troopers, by specific demand of the prisoners, stayed discreetly in the background as the convicts released their eight hostages, submitted to a search for weapons by their own leaders, then marched triumphantly to the mess hall for a victory banquet of steak, ice cream (imported from the outside) "and all the...

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