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...many, particularly young cons with long sentences, simply seeing San Quentin is enough. To see its walls and buildings, some of which are over 100 years old, is to regard a place that radiates control. Control enforced by any means necessary...
Seeing San Quentin was practically all the authorities let Jackson do. After a brief stay, he was transferred to Tracy. Having let him see the whip, they gave him the carrot...
...site of confinement ranks second only to the leverage provided by the indeterminate sentence as a customarily effective weapon at the disposal of the California penal officials. They can punish the prisoner with whom they are dissatisfied or by whom they are threatened by sending him to San Quentin or Folsom, the maximum security joint. On the other hand, it is also in their power to reward a con by transferring him to Chino or one of the other minimum security prisons-without-walls located in the southern part of the state. Moreover, the authorities have a whole range...
However, George Jackson didn't bite the bait. He stayed at Tracy less than nine months before being transferred back to San Quentin in November of 1962 because he was "in need of control...
...only did Jackson not take the bait, he now seemed to hold the offer of it in contempt. Officials reported that Jackson came back to San Quentin with a "changed attitude." Precisely what this change in attitude entailed is difficult to say. Jackson's prison record shows an escalation in the severity of the violations with which he was now being charged. According to the record, Jackson, who was not a small man, was beginning to throw his weight around...