Officials in fifteen larger penal institutions recorded no fewer than fifty-one riots and serious attacks on warders between 1919 and 1924.
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The motives for the warders' opposition were complex.
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Repeatedly, warders attempted to engineer a crisis by encouraging prisoners to escape or to start a riot.
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Now, the court listened to witness statements by the accused, other prisoners, and the warders.
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Finally, the experienced warders deeply resented the influence of the much younger social workers, fresh out of university.
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In addition, the warders felt threatened by the change of the prisoners' status and resented being held accountable in prison tribunals.
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Inside, highly politicized inmates were pitched against reactionary governors and warders.
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Almost overnight, the inmates were now to be treated as individuals with specific educational needs, a task for which many warders had neither sympathy, nor training.
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I am not one of those who subcribe to the view that warders are inhuman, hard men.
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Certainly it is true to say that the categories of policemen involved have extended far beyond the porters, rounders, warders and watchmen.
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Thewarderin charge stood up and saluted.
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I understand that almost the invariable punishment in prisons for striking or for a brutal attack upon awarderis flogging.
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The burden that is placed upon the warders in these cases is not that of sudden death, but of slow, lingering extinction.
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The first class had their minimum raised £10 and their maximum £15, whereas the head store warders had increments of £5 minimum and £30 maximum, so that the plea.
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For what these figures are worth, they seem to indicate that the fears entertained by the police officers and prisonwarderservice are not groundless.
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