CRIME: Dannemora, Auburn

Two famed New York state prisons were last week arenas of revolt, sabotage, death.

In Dannemora is Clinton prison, called "Siberia" by New York's underworld. There are herded the state's ugliest criminals in vicious, degenerate brotherhood. They work for 1¢ per day. While idling in the yard, 1,300 inmates suddenly mutinied, beat two guards, set fire to buildings, stormed the walls. They were unarmed but they fought for five hours. Prison guards, state troopers and citizen volunteers (including famed Baritone Reinald Werrenrath) finally quelled them with machine...