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Inside a Riker's Island Prison theater in New York City last week, the players were setting up on stage. The audience entered in rowdy chaos-175 women, mostly black and Puerto Rican, dressed in sleeveless, hemless shifts, and monitored by hefty black female guards in starchy white shirts. A loudspeaker voice cut through the clamor to introduce the program: "'The Family' started behind the walls and it is now functioning outside the wall. And every member is a professional. Today we will see Straight from the Ghetto...
...eastern edge of Gallup, New Mexico, when the girl picked me up. It was about nine o'clock. Thursday morning, August 14. The girl driving the car looked about five feet tall, and she wore a leather jacket over a maroon-and-blue striped knit T-shirt, and a hemless mini-skirt made from cut-off corduroy jeans. She had a sharp face-rather pronounced cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a smail, sharp nose. Her blondish hair was uniformly short except for one long, very thin braid in back. There were two long-haired guys with...
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