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...lawyer, disbarment can mean disaster. Last week convicted Dirty Trickster Donald Segretti started to serve his maximum-six-month sentence in Lompoc Prison Camp 45 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, Calif. Declared Lawyer Segretti plaintively: "Four months in Lompoc is nothing to me compared with being disbarred. What would...
...Lompoc, Calif...
...your story about the charges brought against John and Angelo Alessio, you write about their prison as "fun" [Dec. 25]. After spending 25 consecutive weekends at the Lompoc Correctional Facility as a visitor, I disagree. While trying to be as objective as possible, I have seen two fine, compassionate individuals (my father and my Uncle John) surfer mentally and physically as much, if not more than any other person in the prison, because of the "pressures" of the prison system, the U.S. Government and the press. By your own admission Lompoc is a "minimum security camp" designed for nonviolent inmates...
Sent to a minimum-security "honor camp" in Lompoc, Calif., a kind of penal country club for a handful of privileged convicts, the Alessios lost no time in buttering up the guards. On different occasions, according to the indictment, the Alessios arranged a free weekend at a resort hotel in Stateline, Nev., for one parole officer and his family; they treated another prison official to a lavishly catered sojourn at the Kona Kai, a San Diego club controlled by Smith. Another time Tony Alessio hosted a fishing trip for a guard and three of his friends that ended with...
...parole, Sonny found life was almost worse than inside: "The board would tell me, 'Stay away from nightclubs.' Now how was I gonna play music if I couldn't go near no nightclubs? One time they got me a job with a seed company in Lompoc. They had me standin' there with a brush this long, pollinatin' flowers. I was a human bee. If a brother had ever seen me doin' that, he'd cut me dead...