“Explains Warden Alwin E. Wangner of Bloomfield: …. ‘No prisoner is going to be happy, but we try to keep them reasonably content: The better the morale, the easier it is to keep order.’ …. What is a day like here? It is wait, walk, and sleep – but mostly wait. The calendar and the clock have the lead roles in this stone and steel stage.”
– The Star-Ledger, 25 March 1959
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