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Because Harris has been convicted of murder, she must serve her time at a maximum-security prison, not one of the fenced-in "country clubs" favored by Watergate felons and other white-collar convicts. Her home will be the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, 47 miles northeast of New York City. Despite its red brick colonial buildings and its playing fields, Bedford Hills is a long way from Madeira. Outside there is a 12-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire; inside there are 360 two-story cellblocks...
...room with a television set, and if Harris becomes a star prisoner, she may some day watch TV and cook in her own cellblock. There is a school on the premises, though many of the courses may not interest a former headmistress: remedial English, auto repair, IBM keypunching, hairdressing. Bedford Hills is not an oppressively grim place to serve a sentence, but, as one guard says, "the hard thing is to be inside. You can make a prison almost a paradise, but if you can't leave, it remains a prison...
Unless Harris' lawyers are able to win an appeal or the Governor grants her clemency after she serves half her time, Bedford Hills could be the murderess's home for the next 15 years (the minimum sentence for her crime). By then she will...
...journey east since Election Day, presiding over a lunch at Blair House for women members of Congress. There he was given a preview of the demands that will begin to supplant the ritual once he is in the White House. Democrat Shirley Chisholm, whose district contains Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, asked what he was going to do about jobs for the inner cities. Reagan briefly explained his support for an innovative proposal to establish free enterprise zones that would provide tax incentives for industry to move into impoverished areas. Chisholm did not press the matter, even though...
Floriano DeArego, a New Bedford carpenter who arrived from St. Michael in the Azores eleven years ago at the age of seventeen, has a highly positive attitude toward the ceremony. "It makes me belong to the country. I don't want to live here and just say I'm in the United States. I want to be part of it." DeArego, who could speak only Portuguese when he came here, says he had no difficulty picking up English, "When you want to learn something you can learn it. I had to. I worked with American people...