Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer
It was the kind of concert security that Elvis could only have dreamed about.
Dozens of blue-uniformed guards armed with clubs were deployed throughout the audience. Spectators had to pass through a steel door and a metal detector. Thirty- foot-high walls, topped with machine-gun towers and razor wire, surrounded the hall.
But it wasn't the musicians who needed the protection. The guards' job was to make sure the musicians didn't decide to suddenly take their act on the road.
"Welcome to the Clinton Correctional Facility's annual Holiday Winter Show," said Daniel A. Senkowski, the prison warden, as he opened his party Wednesday.
Then 29 murderers, rapists, drug dealers, robbers and burglars pulled out their axes - guitars, saxophones, drums and electric pianos - for a slammer serenade that was certainly one of the state's most bizarre holiday concerts.
"Christmas is a tough time for these …
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