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...Lessons are held at a nearby camp run in conjunction with the Thailand Elephant Conservation Center. Here, mahout wannabes are put through their paces on the backs of the resort's quartet of female elephants?Champen, Lawann, Tantawan and Yom. Riding one of them is as fun as it looks: nudge both her ears to move forward, squeeze your knees together to stop, rock backwards to reverse, be patient when she pauses to relieve herself or yank the shoots off a tree (which happens about every 30 seconds...
...benefits more than anyone else the people who run it--not the victims of crime, not the taxpayer, and certainly not the prisoner. Those people who fight to keep the prisons at a status quo are thinking of nothing but their own self interest. As Attica leader Roger Champen said in a speech at Harvard in December, "Prison is an industry, and industry must have its slaves...
...aftermath of the Attica rebellion has only reaffirmed the justice of the prisoners' protest. Roger Champen, an Attica inmate during the revolt, told a Harvard audience last week that New York has done nothing to relieve the conditions which led to the outbreak: slave wages for prison labor, inedible food, guard brutality, restricted political and religious expression, censorship of mail, poor health care and inadequate educational facilities. Only the number of guards has been increased...
...Champen further emphasized that the conditions at prisons reflect inequality in society. Most prisoners are non-whites and the National Guard and hostages at Attica were all white, Champen pointed...
...convicted when I was born. If I was bitter, I wouldn't be talking," Champen said...