July
8, 1950
Michigan
Governor Taken Hostage by Prison Inmates
Michigan Governor G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams was briefly taken hostage by
inmates at the Marquette Branch Prison while making a
personal visit to investigate complaints about the conditions. Williams gained
prominence for his refusal in 1950 to extradite Haywood
Patterson, one of the Scottsboro
Boys, who had escaped from prison in Alabama in 1948 and hidden in Detroit
for two years
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