Word: atlantians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper is one of the best of some 200 publications produced by and for convicts. As a whole, they make for one of the more captivating aspects of the nation's press. They vary widely in style, from muddy mimeographs to a glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist Cobina Wright (no alumni). Inside the walls they...
...article in the current issue of The Atlantian, a magazine written and edited by his prison students, states the classroom attitude toward Teacher Howland: ". . . Bill, who comes to the prison as often as the press of bureau business will allow, is a guy who gets right down to cases. He strides into a room, pitches his coat to the nearest man, and says, 'Now, what do you want to talk about?' If it's politics, just ask him. He's covered the conventions, interviewed almost all the major names on the front pages, and can give...
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