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...part of a conspiracy because of the "close connection of the [Manson] group." In Los Angeles, Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay said flatly: "I think Charles Manson had a hand in it. It's very easy to slip messages in and out of prison." Indeed, officials at San Quentin prison near San Francisco, where Manson is locked up, acknowledged that the mass murderer had frequently corresponded with Fromme by regular mail. A prison spokesman said that Manson had learned of the act through the prison grapevine shortly after it happened. Reportedly, Manson reacted with surprise to the news, declaring...
...Just Community is its size (only 30 inmates). Experts are uniformly convinced that large "fortress" prisons are an unmitigated contamination of criminal justice. The only solution for San Quentin, reported one corrections official who had been sent to investigate the prison's violence and living conditions, is "200 Ibs. of TNT." He got no argument from superiors. Already, the populations of such oldtime "big houses" are being cut down. In Minnesota there are tentative plans to close the 775-man state prison at Stillwater. One problem, however, is to get communities to accept the new, smaller institutions...
...bombers and young black criminals who define assaults as "political acts." Says Frederick Hacker, a University of Southern California professor of psychiatry and law: "There have been an increasing criminalization of politics and a politicalization of criminals. It's reached the point where there are no criminals in San Quentin any more. They're all freedom fighters...
...Elis should also be competitive in the 200 back, fly, and individual medley Quentin Lawler has gone 2:00 in the back and Kurt Spohn has recorded a 1:59 in the butterfly Eli Captain Buck Smith's best time in the I.M> this year is 1:59 as commpared to Harvard captain Dave Brumwell's mark...
...trees. Although he soon becomes disaffected with his job, he is compensated by the life of a diplomat: a few years here, a few years there, never staying in one place long enough to grow restless or attached to the surface of things. His three sons--Scobie, Matthew, and Quentin--grow up in snatches, in Kuwait, London, Athens, Switzerland. Each time Laura looks again at them she is awed by the opaque process through which they are being transformed from children who were once extensions of herself, into other, opaque human beings. As a successful family...