- #LUBBOCK PRISONER ESCAPE HOSPITAL MOVIE#
- #LUBBOCK PRISONER ESCAPE HOSPITAL PROFESSIONAL#
- #LUBBOCK PRISONER ESCAPE HOSPITAL SERIES#
It seems that the soldier had stolen a brand new Ford from a dealer's showroom. On December 23rd, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, they were stopped by the cops and the driver, Kenny, and another passenger were all arrested for car theft.
He met a soldier in the game who volunteered to give him a ride. En route to Oklahoma City, he got into a crap game at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. In 1956, while in the 82nd Airborne, training troops in the use of field artillery, Kenny was given a Christmas furlough.
#LUBBOCK PRISONER ESCAPE HOSPITAL PROFESSIONAL#
I’ve talked to many infamous gangsters, killers, certified psychopaths, professional thieves, and various assorted jailhouse specimens during my years of doing time since 1950 - but none match Kenny's exploits, some of which follow. He said, “Yeah, I know, I was there.” His narrative was so interesting that I spent several of my infrequent recreation periods in front of his cell recording them. While I was reading these cases and considering the horrendous conditions, I learned of even worse conditions when I mentioned to Kenny Johnson, an old-time convict on the tier, what I was reading.
#LUBBOCK PRISONER ESCAPE HOSPITAL MOVIE#
The movie Brubacker presented Hollywood’s version of this affair. After being discharged as Warden, he was unable to find employment in the “correctional” field. Or, if one considers this as merely an isolated, unfortunate occurrence, then the Merton events might well exemplify this “dark and evil world.” When Tom Merton was appointed as a reform warden by Governor Rockefeller, then, with directions provided by a convict, he dug up bodies of prisoners listed as “escaped.” The local coroner then threatened to cite him for disinterring bodies without a permit. One incident perhaps illustrative of this world occurred when a 15-year old boy was sentenced to one day in the prison, but was worked to exhaustion with little or no food provided and then shot to death. In one of the cases, which spanned 18 years, Chief Judge Henley wrote, “…banishment from civilized society to a dark and evil world completely alien to the free world, a world that is administered by criminals under unwritten rules and customs completely foreign to free world culture.”
#LUBBOCK PRISONER ESCAPE HOSPITAL SERIES#
While researching case law concerning litigation I filed in 1972 - when I spent 28 months in Marion’s Long Term Control Unit based upon false, fabricated, bogus charges (settled 24 years later for $20,000) - I chanced upon a series of lawsuits filed by convicts in Arkansas detailing the conditions of their confinement. But Dillinger engineered a successful escape - I only got two more five-year sentences added on for my failed escape attempts. Back in olden-times (the 1980s) I was in Marion, the fed’s end-of-the line maximum security penitentiary for the third time, counting off the days, weeks, months, and years of my 199-year sentence given to me in Chicago when I tried to play John Dillinger, robbing banks and shooting cops.
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