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| Former Folsom Prison guard has big plans for new 'Big House' museum |
| By sacbee.com - Jan Ferris Heenan |
| Published: 04/30/2013 |
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CALIFORNIA - Jim Brown was fresh out of the U.S. Army the first time the heavy metal gates of Folsom Prison slammed shut behind him. Far from foreboding, the clanging sound struck his fancy, as did the thick granite mystique of California's second-oldest prison. The place, he said, had personality. Brown would clock 32 years there as a guard. He worked the watch- towers, his rifle at the ready. He walked the cellblocks, on the hunt for weapons and other contraband. For nearly half his tenure, he stood guard in the prison's psychiatric ward, protecting the medical staff and defusing tensions among un- predictable criminals. Read More. |
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