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Prisons did not work out as planned. Right now in most states there are individual prisons, and whole prison systems, that courts have condemned. Insurrections and slaughter shock everyone and surprise nobody. There was no bona fide riot among San Quentin's 2,900 inmates last year, yet seven prisoners were murdered, and at least 54 others were stabbed, clubbed or beaten, all in the normal course of prison life...
...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. He has four...
...ordinary, seems strange in these fortresses. In the Stateville library, a huge inmate stands and squints at Bing Crosby's memoir, Call Me Lucky. A young, white female history teacher asks her class of ten young black men, "And who won World War II?" In permissive California, San Quentin's main visiting room has the look of a junior high school make-out party where they forgot to dim the lights: dozens of couples, hugging, smooching, oblivious. In Leavenworth's vast mess hall, inmates grab their silverware from a miniature Conestoga and eat off red-and-white checkered tablecloths...
DEATH REVEALED. Joe Sawyer, 75, paunchy, villainous character actor of more than 300 movies, starting in the 1930s, who bullied but finally succumbed to the likes of Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in San Quentin and who later won fame with the video generation as the bumbling, comic Sergeant Biff O'Hara in TV's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin from 1954 to 1960; of liver cancer; in Ashland, Ore., on April...
James Worthy was the last of the big stars to make the jump, joining Terry Cummings, Dominique Wilkins, Clark Kellogg. Quentin Dailey & Co. The only top returning next year will be Ralph Sampson, and he would have gone too it the Los Angeles Lakers had been able to put together a deal to guarantee the Virginta center that he would end up in the smoggy city...