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...fiscal year 1970-71, says Leeke, each full-time inmate cost South Carolina $1,832 to maintain. But each prisoner on work release pays the state $1,278 out of his earnings for room, board and transportation. Furthermore, the average working convict pays $908.70 in social security, state and federal taxes. The total payments make the employed convict a net asset...
...that moment comes in one of her best-known stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. A maniac escaped from prison has just slaughtered a family despite the pitifully agile efforts of the grandmother to cajole or convert him. "She would of been a good woman," the convict mumbles, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life...
...found it wasn't brought into this prison by any convict. You can believe that...
Harrison said that the large number of people who attended the trial helped his case. "If people continue to show up to support me. I think it would be too exposing for them to convict me," he said...
...began to conduct our own classes. We had brothers there from Lincoln University and so forth. So the cats began to teach math classes and science classes. We began to teach these things on the yard. One of the things the prison system does not want is a thinking convict, they want a reacting convict, and we were beginning to teach cats to think. Cats would go to the hole less and less. Homosexuality was on the decline in A hall, which was an all-black hall. I he old black convicts that had had a free run at making...