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Couming, who was asleep when the marshalls entered, "is feeling fine and is happy as a lark," according to his father. The 70-year-old janitor added that Couming wanted the bail money to be raised, "not for his own use, but for the movement...
Couming was to have gone to trial yesterday morning. Couming's father, a 70-year-old janitor in the Columbia Point housing project, took the stand instead, and, according to Couming, denounced the trial as "nothing but part of the continuing harassment of dissenters against...
...Representative; he left Phil Berrigan's Josephite order last June to marry Mary Cain, an ex-nun. (FBI men searching for the fugitive Dan Berrigan interrupted the wedding.) He has since worked with Wenderoth and McLaughlin among Baltimore blacks, earning money as a part-time taxi driver and janitor...
...reformed character, he faces hazards for which no prison can be blamed. In a Harris poll, 72% of Americans endorsed rehabilitation as the prison goal. But when it came to hiring an ex-armed robber who had shot someone, for example, 43% would hesitate to employ him as janitor, much less as a salesman (54%) or a clerk handling money (71%). This is obviously understandable; it also teaches ex-cons that crime pays because nothing else does...
...Things are far better now, but only a masochist would try to get away. Ray's isolated world consists of his cellblock's 21 other inmates, some of them blacks. Up at 5:30 a.m., he spends eight hours a day as a "block man" (janitor) sweeping and mopping the place, gets a brief recess in the prison gym. At 5 p.m., he is locked up, then toils over his typewriter. Ray and his lawyers still hope for a new trial in state criminal court in Memphis, so each night he churns out more legal memorandums...