Word: lifers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECRET LIFER. The other 90% of the nation's committed inverts are hidden from all but their friends, lovers, and occasionally, psychiatrists. Their wrists are rigid, their "s's" well formed; they prefer subdued clothes and close-cropped hair, and these days may dress more conservatively than flamboyant straights. Many wear wedding rings and have wives, children and employers who never know. They range across all classes, all races, all occupations. To lead their double lives these full or part-time homosexuals must "pass" as straight, and most are extremely skilled at camouflage. They can cynically tell...
...misfits to crime-free lives. In progressive prisons, to be sure, guards are taught to break up the inmate culture by friendly communication; inmates are classified in graded groups, promoted for good conduct and hustled toward pa role. Indeed, the average stay today is 21 months; the average lifer exits in 20 years...
...that is picked up by the Bonn government as war reparations. That is a high price per man to pay for incarceration, but at midnight, Sept. 30, the cost will rise even higher when Speer and Von Schirach are released after completing their 20-year sentences. Only Lifer Hess will remain in the costly keep...
...might liefer be a lifer...
...subject to being charged the daily $4 to $9 that it costs the state to keep him in jail. Few actually get into this fix; the state has collected only $30,000 from paying prisoners in the past nine years. But the possibilities are clear from the record of Lifer Roman Olezniczak (murder, bank robbery), the state's top paying con. While earning $5 a month in the Jackson prison laundry, Olezniczak has over the past ten years shelled out $13,847.51 for his keep...