Following a March 1973 prison officer strike, the inmates of Walpole state prison, a high-security facility outside Boston, ran the prison under watch of citizen observers for two months during a policy impasse with the prison officers' union and the state corrections commissioner. == Background == Located outside Boston, Walpole state prison was Massachusetts's highest security prison in its time.
Following a March 1973 prison officer strike, the inmates of Walpole state prison, a high-security facility outside Boston, ran the prison under watch of citizen observers for two months during a policy impasse with the prison officers' union and the state corrections commissioner. == Background == Located outside Boston, Walpole state prison was Massachusetts's highest security prison in its time.
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