If Sam Shockley was to have been a key figure in helping Bernie Coy enter the gun gallery, he would not have risked being placed in a solitary cell by smashing and setting fire to his cell in the riot of March 1946. If there had been enough solitary cells available, Shockley would have been locked up in one as Franklin had been. The failure to release Rufus Franklin was a good indication that no one in D Block had been aware of the break prior to its occurrence.
If Sam Shockley had been a key figure in assisting Bernie Coy enter the gun gallery, he would not have risked being confined to solitary confinement by destroying his cell during the riot of March 1946. If there had been sufficient solitary cells available, Shockley would have been placed in one as Franklin had been. The failure to release Rufus Franklin was a sign that no one in D Block was aware of the break prior to its occurrence.