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...addition to 800 prisoners now housed in the large wood-and-canvas tents, 350 are doubled up in 11-ft. by 4½-ft. cells designed for one person. The prison, which has a rated capacity of 2,700, is so overcrowded that Warden Reginald Pulley has confined many of its 3,900 prisoners to their cells, allowing them to emerge only for meals and showers. What's more, their work and education programs have been suspended. Says Pulley of his institution: "It's a monster to run. It's a time bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Growing Crisis Behind Bars | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...Sands-Scott (H) d. Pulley-Friedman 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; 2. Loud-Grossman (H) d. Merritt-Weiss (default) ; 3. Adam Baren-Beckman (H) d. Sobel-Leon Hamul...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Sands and Scott Doubles Pair Sparkles As Crimson Dominates Quakers, 7-2 | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

Perhaps the best that can be hoped is for prisons to become, in one sense, even worse: a higher concentration of head bashers, heroin warlords, child molesters and murderers?malevolence distilled. There would be no more half-believable inmate excuses. Criminals would effectively decide to go to prison. R.L. Pulley, San Quentin's warden, says as much: "There's nothing to ensure that when an inmate gets out and passes by the 7-Eleven, he won't decide to rob it. That's basic to America, the opportunity to make choices." Inmate Marion Chaney does not make lame excuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are Prisons For? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...Hall, the longtime chairman of the Communist Party, and running mate Angela Davis lead a pack of other leftists in the race. They include Deirdre Gristly of the Workers World Party and Andrew Pulley of the Socialist Workers Party...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: Where They Stand | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Like the censors who battled Oh Calcutta! and the judges who smothered Caligula, President Carter and Associates have been searching for a way to close the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's smash hit. An attempt to airlift the 53 performers en masse from the theater wings failed when a pulley strap of the deus ex machina snagged on a piece of scenery...

Author: By David Franket, | Title: Mission Implausible | 7/15/1980 | See Source »

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