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Looking back, Jimmy Breslin spits at the business that made him. Excepting Millionaire Jock Whitney, who gave him a big play in the now departed New York Herald Tribune, Breslin has only scorn for publishers. "I worked for Newhouse, Scripps-Howard and Hearst-the Sing Sing, Leavenworth and Folsom of American journalism," he says. "People who are working for Newhouse shouldn't have the Guild as their bargaining agent. They should have the Mafia. And they should get a Pulitzer prize for malnutrition...
...lost none of his flair. After a particularly florid and emotional summation at one mur der trial, Morgan spun around before the astonished jurors and fell in a dead faint. He tried some two dozen criminal cases before he was uncovered again. Convicted of fraud, he was sent to Leavenworth prison in Kansas...
Morgan's return to prison set the stage for his crowning achievement. While at Leavenworth, he brought a lawsuit against the warden and the chief medical officer. Both, he contended, had ordered "unqualified inmates" to inoculate him with a drug that gave him permanent injuries. Claiming that they were acting "under color" of federal office at the time, the two men got their case removed from a state to a federal court...
...doctor and three railroad presidents." In Allenwood, Pa., resisters make up almost half the prison population of 300. But elsewhere they are a minority among bootleggers, forgers and robbers. A few have even been tossed in with murderers and other hardened criminals at such maximum-security prisons as Leavenworth...
...University of Nebraska graduate who put in a two-year stretch at Leavenworth says: "The guards were the dumbest, most conservative s.o.b.s I've ever seen, but they were not half as bad as the other prisoners. It seemed like the two most despised groups were the C.O.s and the sexual perverts." For most of the resisters, the biggest enemies are boredom, lack of privacy, separation from friends and loved ones, and petty harassment by guards. They work as prison-library clerks, auto-shop mechanics, gardeners, dishwashers or launderers. Some of them find the repressive atmosphere of prison just...