Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early, of course, to measure the experiment's results, but its effect on Tehachapi's 1,320 inmates has been electric. "When this first came over the rumor wire, we couldn't believe it," says Fred Long, 25, who has been in and out of prison for the past nine years. "Then when the guys found out it was true, they just went ape. The bachelors were screaming, 'I knew I should have got married, I knew it!' One guy told me he was getting married as soon as he was out, so he could...
...takes a much more sober view. "This thing will save a lot of marriages," he says. "Just knowing this was coming up has helped mine. My wife and I didn't know each other too well." For Arzaga, the problem was only slightly different. After four years in prison, he said, "My kids, they hardly remembered me. They wouldn't obey me. So I got mad. Later, my wife said they thought I was grouchy. I got to thinking about it, and maybe I was. I think it'll be better next time. Out there...
BELLE BOYD IN CAMP AND PRISON, edited by Curtis Caroll Davis. 448 pages. Yoseloff...
...when Belle Boyd was 19, she was captured and imprisoned in Washington, D.C., as a Confederate spy. Her memoir records the following dialogue with the prison's superintendent...
...even a vastly romantic 19-year-old girl, could have uttered the bombastic speeches credited to her by the memoir. But the book was written in 1865, only two years after Belle was released from prison, by a ghost named George A. H. Sala. His style is implacably flossy; a hole in a prison wall, through which Belle passed notes, is referred to as a "mural disturbance...