Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thrown in jail, Emo asks his cellmate what he's in for. "'Sodomy.' I figured he was a lawn installer or something....Well, it pays to increase your vocabulary...
...Ginsberg become more political? "It's not really so much political, unless you can call Thoreau political. Thoreau, you know, did sit in jail rather than pay his war tax for exactly the same war we're fighting now [in Nicaragua...
...Hung spent a year in his college's detention center before he was sent to a prison camp. "It was like they turned Adams House into a jail. They put me in a dark room, asked me to write down my faults, my crime," he says...
Unfortunately, I had not seen my good friend in several weeks, since he had been dragged ignominiously from jail and deported. Apparently he was not an illegal immigrant so not protected by the general amnesty granted by Reagan. I had managed to convince the immigration people that I had no reason to be in America and was allowed to stay...
...police defiance by inaction: no work, bad work, late work? How to police drink and jazz and love? For short bursts of time you can jail, even shoot, people for such crimes. But after a while you run out of bullets, jails, energy, even victims. Then the rot sets...