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...George Foreman is a private person who is clearly not comfortable in the presence of inquiring reporters," says Taubman. To penetrate that privacy, Taubman tried to corner his publicity-shy subject at his training camp in Pleasanton, Calif. For a week Taubman shadowed the champion during his daily workouts and while he played with his dogs and horses. One day after a home-cooked meal of frankfurters, the two sat down together in Foreman's house while the champion watched and analyzed old fight films. "Foreman has a certain simple dignity about him," reports Taubman, "an unpretentious quality that...
...Pleasanton is the newest of four coed facilities opened in the past three years by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. The others are at Fort Worth, Morgantown, W. Va., and Lexington, Ky. A fifth, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Framingham, is operated by the state government. Connecticut plans to open its own mixed prison...
...relaxed-looking individuals, most of them in their 20s, are serving time at the new Federal Youth Center in Pleasanton, Calif. They have been convicted of stealing cars, holding up banks, committing manslaughter, selling narcotics and other serious offenses. Despite appearances, says Warden Walter Lumpkin, "a prison is a prison." Still, some inmates call Pleasanton a prisoner's paradise. The most novel feature is that it is coed. Since it opened in July, the 40 women and 35 men "residents" (the term "prisoner" is passe) have been eating, working and playing together routinely. Sexual activity is banned. Anyone caught...
More than half of them commute daily to jobs or schools in the surrounding area. The Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Worth holds Gestalt therapy sessions as well as providing transactional analysis for the 400 male and 100 female residents. To encourage a sense of responsibility, Pleasanton officials give all residents keys to their own rooms. The rooms, however, cannot be locked from the inside...
...Pleasanton, Calif...