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...strangely - they found themselves identifying with the prisoners rather than with the custodians. "If a man should need to have that banal word freedom redefined," said San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum, "let him spend an hour behind the walls of a prison like Soledad or San Quentin. New have his definition the moment he walks out." Entering New Orleans' of Paris Prison reminded Chicago Correspondent Sam Iker of being and into an ancient submarine: "A combination of heat and smell, stale air, kitchen aromas and perspiring bodies." Washington's Dean State found it easier to enter than...
...from reality that perhaps 40% of all released inmates (75% in some areas) are reimprisoned within five years, often for worse crimes. Says Rod Beaty, 33, who began with a $65 forged check, became an armed robber, and is now a four-time loser in San Quentin: "Here you lose all sense of values. A human life is worth 35#, the price of a pack of cigarettes. After five years on the inside, how can you expect me to care about somebody when I get outside...
...fills prisons with a higher ratio of hard-core inmates who disrupt the rest. And because of indeterminate sentences, California "corrects" offenders longer than any other state by a seemingly endless process (median prison stay: 36 months) that stirs anger against the not always skilled correctors. Says one San Quentin official: "It's like going to school, and never knowing when you'll graduate...
...among inmates. His own rage has gone partly into self-help training: 1,000 push-ups a day, heavy reading, and the writing of letters so striking that they have recently been published in a book, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. He now sits in San Quentin's maximum-security wing, awaiting trial on new charges of murdering a white prison guard at Soledad Prison last year. If convicted, Jackson faces a mandatory sentence: death in the gas chamber...
Farther west, Nixon had selected five incumbent Democratic Senators as likely targets for unseating: North Dakota's Quentin Burdick, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Utah's Frank Moss, New Mexico's Joseph Montoya and Nevada's Howard Cannon. Conservatives were recruited to run well-financed campaigns against the ostensibly vulnerable quintet. Campaigners from Washington hustled through. Agnew anointed Moss "the Western regional chairman of the Radic-Lib Eastern Establishment." Moss was re-elected easily, and the four other Democrats also won. Three of the Republicans put up against the incumbent Senators were House members; Democrats captured those three seats...