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That quip cost Gallo nine years for extortion. In Attica state prison, Gallo earned a reputation as a civil rights leader of sorts. He helped lead an inmate drive to force white prison barbers to cut the hair of blacks; he had his own hair cut by a black barber to show his lack of prejudice. Actually, his motive seemed to be to recruit black toughs for his gang. When he got out of prison in March of 1971, he began hiring blacks as "button men" (musclemen)-pricking the ethnic sensibilities of other Mafiosi. He had openly toured Little Italy...
...Joey was a terribly sexy person. He always made you feel he would run away with you-if there weren't 1,000 other factors to consider. He talked about prisons a lot, too. He thought that the Attica uprising was inevitable, and that Rockefeller handled it right. 'The hacks [guards] had to get their thing off, too,' he said. They would have shot someone sooner or later...
Also freed last week was Daniel Berrigan, paroled from a federal prison in Danbury, Conn., after serving 18 months of a three-year sentence for destroying Selective Service records. "I made hundreds of new friends," he said. "It's a Popsicle prison, not like Attica...
...Remember Attica, a few dissidents start to chant. Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon, the crowd yells back in response...
Confession. In the post-mortems on Attica, one strange episode has been the appearance of Kenneth Moore, 28, a tall, bearded black recently sentenced to five to 15 years for killing a policeman. At Christmastime, Moore confessed that he drove the Mustang in the 1965 robbery. He says he stole the car and gave a ride to an acquaintance named Ronnie, who told him: "Man, you picked me up just in time. I just pulled off a sting!" Moore adds that he took Ronnie to New Jersey and never saw him again. He claims he is confessing because "Blyden...