Word: harrision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean Struven Harris behind bars is a study in incongruities. She once ran her own kingdom, the Madeira School, where heed was paid and homage given to the headmistress. She once presided over gourmet luncheons, toast and tea, with women who would come and go, talking of Michelangelo. But white...
Until Judge Russell Leggett sentences her on March 20, Harris will stay at the Westchester department of corrections complex in Valhalla, N.Y. As she arrived last week a few of the prison's 68 female inmates shouted at her, "You, Jean Harris, you're coming to join us...
Because Harris has been convicted of murder, she must serve her time at a maximum-security prison, not one of the fenced-in "country clubs" favored by Watergate felons and other white-collar convicts. Her home will be the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, 47 miles northeast of New York City...
Harris will arrive in handcuffs, as required by prison regulations, and cross a reception area containing glass cases filled with prisoner handicrafts such as pottery and knitted baby clothes. After she has been photographed, fingerprinted and given a medical exam, she will stay in the reception block for at least...
For someone whose life was filled with grand passion and frightening complexity, prison routine may prove deadening. Harris will rise at 6:30 a.m. and eat a breakfast of cereal, fruit, toast and occasionally bacon and eggs. Then she will do manual work: cleaning, floor mopping, dish washing. For clothes...