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Wylie's roommates, however, are nonplussed with their suite-mate's status. "I knew that when I came to Harvard I would meet people like Paul," says bunk-mate Tad A. Dibbern '90. "He sure gets a lot of phone calls, though, from radio stations wanting interviews...
...want more, bring your roommates," he told me, suggesting that I should keep my own personal stock. I briefly thought about trading my toilet paper for the bottom bunk, but when my roommates started using comic books, I backed down...
...criminals serve longer sentences for the crimes they commit. But soon, as one might expect, prisons simply ran out of space. In Concord Prison, one of Massachusett's medium security correctional facilities, six-by-ten-foot cells that were designed to hold one inmate now have two sleeping in bunk beds. Rooms that were meant to be recreational areas or infirmaries now house 20 to 30 prisoners. Each week, the number grows...
...prisoners there is about 10 months, with 40 percent of the prisoners getting out in less than 90 days. Issued navy work pants and a light-blue mechanic's shirt, prisoners at Billerica spend 17 to 21 hours a day confined to a space large enough only for a bunk bed, toilet and sink...
...Stafford, who is employed as a house painter, says he has every reason to make the idea work. "It would never enter my mind to tamper with the anklet," he claims. "This is a nice apartment. I hadn't had my own bed for a long time. I had Bunk 211-119. It wasn...