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(See drawing p. 11); An unholy light filled the wide courtyard of Colorado's State Penitentiary at Canon City, the glare of floodlights and searchlights playing on Cellhouse No. 3. Two other cellhouses, the prison chapel and the messhall, were blazing ruins. In the prison "bull pen"a sunken space at one side of the yardsome 400 convicts cowered in sullen terror, their shadows moving nightmarishly on the stone walls of the enclosure. From Cellhouse No. 3 where Danny Daniels, burglar-murderer, and five desperate comrades were inducting the worst prison revolt in Colorado's history,...
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