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| Uniform display honors guard slain in Pontiac prison riot |
| By pantagraph.com- Kevin Barlow |
| Published: 07/23/2014 |
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PONTIAC — As a new prison guard only 14 days on the job on July 22, 1978, James Spray didn't understand why his supervisor sent him on errands to other parts of Pontiac Correctional Center, but one question he got when he arrived in the west cell house stunned him. "They kept asking me why I wasn't dead," Spray said Tuesday morning on the lawn of the prison. "I had no idea what they meant." Spray was unaware that seconds after he left the north cell block, inmates armed with shanks and other weapons jumped a line of nearly 600 inmates waiting to return to their cell house from the recreation yard. The guards were overwhelmed, leaving three injured and three others, including Spray's supervisor, Lt. William Thomas, 49, of Saunemin, dead. Read More. |
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