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...MAUGARDS, Robert and Yvette, live with their six children in the Norman hamlet of St.-Quentin-des-Iles (pop. 230). Robert, 35, is a truck driver who works 50 to 55 hours a week for take-home wages that average $83. The family also gets government supplements that total $51 per week, giving the Maugards a pretax income of $134 per week.* "My husband's pay is much too low for driving a big truck 50 to 55 hours a week," complains Yvette, 30. "That's not the 40-hour week the Popular Front voted...
...painstakingly won array of new rights was directly connected to the upsurge of varied convict organizations. Most of the religious groups have contributed toward improving the quality of prison life, although one seems clearly frivolous. Prisoners at penitentiaries in Atlanta and San Quentin have formed the Church of the New Song (CONS). They claim that their ritual requires them to eat porterhouse steaks and drink Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry and are suing prison authorities to get the needed ingredients for their menu...
...overturn court decisions concerning the attorney-client privilege and are hoping to regain the right to censor prisoner mail and restrict the flow of supposedly radical reading material into institutions. As an example of the kind of material he would keep out of prisons, Sergeant William Hankins of San Quentin cites the books found in George Jackson's cell after his death, notably Das Kapital by Karl Marx and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Other prison officials place the blame for radical attitudes largely on outsiders, who, they claim, reach the inmates through lawyers or cultural groups...
...year later he made a real name for himself-California 845200. This time he was in San Quentin on a two-year, nine-month rap for attempting to hold up a bar in his home town, Bakersfield. As cocky and uncontrollable as they come, he steamed up some home brew under the guards' noses-and got caught. As his 21st birthday rolled around, he found himself in solitary confinement with only pajama bottoms, a Bible and a blanket on a cement floor to call his own. At long last he was convinced that something was wrong with...
Haggard ended up his stay in San Quentin as a model prisoner. He worked hard in the prison textile mill. "When I got out, they gave me $15 and a bus ticket home." Once back in Bakersfield, Merle dug ditches, and he sang...