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...master spirit of this society is the convict Harcamone, in solitary confinement, awaiting the guillotine. The execution, described by an inmate as "making two of 'Pretty Boy,' " dominates the book. Harcamone is in everybody's mind, and he is the principal figure in the homosexual love fantasies of the narrator. Much of the force of Miracle of the Rose depends on the authenticity of the prison argot. As a ten-time loser who has spent a good part of his first 35 years in reformatories and jails, Genet doubtless knows the con's language like...
...lined weak points in the prison security system, it theorized about a whole range of potential escapes - from prisoners scooped up by low-flying helicopters to space-age techniques in which an ac complice somehow supplies a back-borne jet pack that would enable a convict to clear the wall in one jump...
...finishing important work. Driscoll's defense also brought forward 15 impressive character witnesses, including Louis Nichols, the FBI's ex-No. 2 man and now executive vice president of Schenley Industries. They all testified to his good reputation. Driscoll got a hung jury: six jurors voted to convict, six to acquit for insanity. So he, too, may be retried...
Still, it is a fair start toward a writing career. Elli is now on parole and working on a new book. Meanwhile, Hollywood is offering him $150,000 for the movie rights to The Riot. Obviously, the ex-convict has found that the word is mightier than...
There he was in the Maryland penitentiary serving 40 years for assault, his tenth sentence in 18 years. For Convict George McChan, 34, it seemed like the end of the line. Suddenly, all the legal breaks went McChan's way. Out went his indictment, because Maryland's top court voided a requirement that grand jurors-including the grand jurors that indicted him-affirm belief in God. The same fate has befallen several hundred other indictments; in many cases the result has been a new indictment and a retrial. But a retrial of McChan was out, because the Supreme...