Complex sentence: The prison warden was in total charge of the prison, without outside interference, and its operations essentially remained the same from 1903 until the "Gates v. Collier" Prison Reform Case (1970-1971) forced it to change.
Split into simpler sentences: The prison warden was in total charge of the prison, without outside interference. Its operations essentially remained much the same from 1903 until the "Gates v. Collier" Prison Reform Case (1970-1971) forced it to change.