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...strong belief in committed theater, theater which acts as a catalyst for social change. Rasminsky recalls, "I had seen this group called New Landscapes, that works with kids in lockup, they do monologues of Shakespeare interspersed with their own lives--Hamlet, here's this kid who comes home and his father's dead and his mother remarries, and he's really pissed. They did it in ways these kids could really relate to, be inspired by. And then I thought, what if we could do it with this, and I got really excited...
...This is partly because his dim sidekick Rooski foolishly shot a Chinese druggist when the two of them were fumbling what was supposed to be a peaceful, harmless burglary. The main reason is that Joe belongs in jail, feels comfortable there. Not secure, understand, because dope selling in the lockup is even tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain, and every villain has at least a shank, a homemade knife. Black and Aryan gangs feud murderously. Studs and lovers brutalize each other. And Joe, of course, misses Kitty Litter, his stripper girlfriend...
There is more than a slight whiff of jailhouse self-pity: Joe loves Kitty, goes to the lockup, survives the schemes of bad villains with the help of good villains, and gets out to find true-blue Kitty and the child he has never seen waiting for him. The best of the book is Morgan's wildly reinvented con lingo. His ear fails him occasionally, when he uses lace-curtain language -- "caparisoned," "implacable mien" -- that some editor should have yanked from the manuscript with tongs. But at other times he's cooking: "Saturday night movies in the Gym were...
...shaved his beard to change his appearance, and was promptly arrested. In court an assistant district attorney called him "the architect of an American tragedy," and a state supreme court judge compared the damage from the spill to the destruction of Hiroshima. Hazelwood was held overnight in a lockup with more than 50 other prisoners, many of them accused or convicted murderers, armed robbers and drug dealers. When his cellmates learned that his bond had been set at $1 million (and bail at $500,000), they broke into laughter and shook their heads in disbelief. The next day another state...
Outside, carnival celebrations were reaching their climax. But inside a Sao Paulo municipal lockup, policemen were exacting savage revenge for a failed ! escape attempt. They stripped naked 51 prisoners, allegedly beat them, then crushed them into an unventilated 5-ft. by 10-ft. cell. Whether the prisoners were locked in for 70 minutes or four hours remains a matter of dispute. What is not is that when the door was opened, nine were dead of suffocation and another nine died shortly after being rushed to the hospital...