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...talk on the phone. It's jail! And so you pace the curved, windowless corridors, work out in the gym and page Ginsburg a couple of times a day; an old family friend, he has turned into your D.C. dad. Your time in lockup has been relieved only by the week you spent with your real father in Los Angeles. Though you sided with Mom in the divorce, you and he are getting closer, thanks to this mess. But the California paparazzi are even worse than the ones in Washington. They crushed you and your dad in Santa Monica...
...with his attorney, Stephen Neal, the legal Houdini behind his release, Keating confronts naked hostility: a complete stranger, recognizing his craggy features like a ghost from an old "wanted" poster, drops by his table to hurl an unprovoked insult. He's unperturbed. "When I was first brought into the lockup I faced a howling, screaming mob," Keating says matter-of-factly. He points out that unlike other major white-collar felons of the 1980s, who sojourned in comparatively luxurious "Club Feds," he did "hard time." On the inside, he was known as "the old guy" and initially disliked by fellow...
Speck, who was convicted of the 1966 slayings of eight student nurses, spent 25 years in Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security lockup in Joliet, until he died, apparently of a heart attack. On the tape, Speck boasts about the murders. "Strangle a person? It ain't like you see on TV," he says. "You have to go at it for about 3 1/2 minutes. It takes a lot of strength...
...write colloquially eloquent lyrics, and a husky, passionate delivery when he raps. The white power structure he denounces so vehemently must enjoy seeing him squander his gifts reifying its stereotypes of blackness--that is, if the white power structure thinks about him much at all. By leaving the lockup for the world of gangsta rap, he's just entered another prison...
...guns to defend themselves against older kids who want their money. For the ones still on a piggy-bank budget, the streets offer rent-a-guns for $20 an hour. Who can be surprised, then, that on a typical day last year about 100,000 juveniles were in lockup across the country...