Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What do they expect me to do?" complains one prostitute Deitch interviews in a San Francisco jail. "If they gave me some education or some job training, well maybe I could do something. But instead we sit here twiddling our thumbs or doing embroidery, with nothing to look forward...
...years out from behind bars, Irons is less bitter about his time in jail than he when he was first released. "Jail isn't as bad as everyone thinks," he says...
...prison," Irons says. "Only 10 per cent of the people now in prison should be there--the psychopaths who are really dangerous." Of the other 90 per cent, he says, "There are millions of ex-convicts running around--we're under no more danger from the people now in jail than we are from them...
Irons spent three years with Zinn when he got out of jail, working toward his doctorate in political science, writing a thesis on the domestic roots of the cold war. Zinn calls him "one of the very best graduate students I ever had," and adds that Irons is "the most assiduous researcher I've ever seen...
King said that he was "glad it's over," and that he "had not expected leniency" from the court. The three originally faced up to a $500 fine and one year in jail...