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...guards) a Marin County grand jury has indicted seven San Questin cons for conspiracy in the killings of the five dead whites--in New York, where a special ultra-maximum security lock-up has been proposed for "revolutionary" inmates--and in Boston, where Malik Hakim, a-k-a Albert Bradford, awaits what may well be his final exit...
Hakim, born 36 years ago in St. Louis, has spent almost half his life in the joint. In 1951 he, or more precisely. Albert Bradford, was incarcerated in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City to serve three concurrent life sentences for robbery and two charges of rape. He was 16 years...
...road that led Albert Bradford to the joint is a familiar one--so familiar that it would be a cliche if it were not for the fact that it continues to be a main artery to a dead end for people born poor and-or black in America. "By the time I was 12, I was considered an exceptionally good artist," Hakim says of Bradford. "By the time I was 13, I was a junkie. It's like any other fellow who grows up in the ghetto. You're confronted with images. Images of values you can never aspire...
...Albert Bradford's way out--a consumptive involvement with drugs--was actually only a means of getting deeper into the mire. He became a part of the ghetto's plankton, drifting in the flow of the demand and supply of junk and junk money. "By the time I was 16, I was so hooked on skag all I could see was drugs. When I saw dollar bills. I saw skag...
...demand for young, black, unskilled labor in St. Louis during the late Forties was no greater than it is now throughout urban America where young blacks have the highest rate of unemployment. So, for Bradford, the need to supply his habit demanded crime...