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Berrigan found a curious ally in Douglas, 32, a fellow prisoner at the Lewisburg, Pa., penitentiary.* The two met last year after Berrigan was sent to Lewisburg. Berrigan was anxious to find a way to smuggle his writings and correspondence out of prison; Douglas, one of the few prisoners permitted out during the day-to study at nearby Bucknell University-often carried messages from the inmates with...
...always had all the right conclusions, but the premises on which he should have based them were not there. "Once, Drinnon said to Douglas that it would be logical for the Lewisburg warden to plant someone like himself as an informer. "That's fantastic," Douglas replied. "You know you can trust...
...Wenderoth; and a discussion of the tunnel network last September between Wenderoth and an unnamed General Services Administration engineer. In separate counts, the grand jury also accused Philip Berrigan and Marymount Nun Elizabeth McAlister (see box) of illegally smuggling written communications in and out of the federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa., where Philip Berrigan was assigned before his transfer to Danbury...
JAMES HOFFA. Once the omnipotent union boss who ruled the nation's 1,650,000 Teamsters from his elegant Washington office, Jimmy Hoffa, 57, now lives in a first-floor cell in the medium-security federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa. During the first four years of his eight-year term for jury tampering, Hoffa the tough guy has seemingly been a model prisoner. He spends most of his days working in a humid subbasement shop making and repairing mattresses for his fellow prisoners. He gets no pay, whereas his former salary was $100,000 a year. Polite but somewhat...
...Hoffa, who is already serving time in the Lewisburg, Pa., federal penitentiary for jury tampering, was turned down by a Chicago federal court last week in his effort to win a new trial on his 1964 conviction for conspiracy and fraud in handling union funds. At the same time, a Houston federal judge rejected Clay's bid for a reversal of his 1967 draft-dodging conviction. Both appeals were based on the argument that the Government had used illegal wiretaps, but the judges ruled that the eavesdropping had not contributed to the convictions...