Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regardless of what correctional theories may advocate, a man is sent to prison neither to be reformed nor to be further punished beyond the punishment inherent in his removal from society. A con goes to the joint simply to do his time. This is obviously society's wish, for 95 per cent of the $1.5 billion that is budgeted for all prisons--both state and federal--is spent simply to maintain the prisoner in custody. To do his time as unobtrusively as possible is also the wish of the average inmate. He seeks only to survive his sentence, accumulate clean...
...give the prison authorities a triple leverage. First, they allow the officials to keep the behavior of the majority of inmates under control. Second, they allow them to identify early prisoners who are developing the consciousness of resistance. Finally, they provide a means of arresting this process before the con can convert evolving consciousness into embarassing action...
...first four months, he was accused of seven violations of prison rules. When he came up for parole after the expiration of his minimum sentence, his prison record classified him as "surly and intractable." A bad nigger who "flatly refused to obey orders." Parole was denied and con A-63837 was transferred to San Quentin...
...disposal of the California penal officials. They can punish the prisoner with whom they are dissatisfied or by whom they are threatened by sending him to San Quentin or Folsom, the maximum security joint. On the other hand, it is also in their power to reward a con by transferring him to Chino or one of the other minimum security prisons-without-walls located in the southern part of the state. Moreover, the authorities have a whole range of institutions in between and joints catering to special interests. A homosexual, for instance, who has played the game right, would...
...made up the show that opened at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y. The works were officially called "Concept Art," but proud Husband John Lennon, who celebrated his 31st birthday with the show's opening, noted-perhaps revealingly-that "Yoko likes to call her work con art." Over-30 Syracusans mostly refused to be conned, but the young turned out 6,000 strong on opening day to view Painting to Let the Evening Light Go Through (a sheet of Plexiglas) and Cloud Piece (a water bed with the invitation to "lie down and watch until a cloud...