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Leaving home at 14, Haggard stole cars and drank, basically--bumming around the country for five years. He finally ended up doing a couple of years in San Quentin. (Drunk, he had tried to burglarize a cafe which wasn't even closed. He says prison frightened him into "reforming...
Like Faulkner's Quentin Compson, Donald traces his historical urge (and that of C. Vann Woodward, Francis Simkins and other historians from the South) to a wrestling with the contradiction between ideals and practice in the Southern experience...
...cost of keeping a man in San Quentin the state could be sending him to Harvard. What does this $5,000 (more or less) a year buy? The prisoner's meals. Miss Mitford figures, cost around 300 each. Only 5% is budgeted for that vaunted "rehabilitation." Most of the taxpayer's dollar, the author computes, goes to "security"−i.e., guards and guns. A lot of money also goes into penal bureaucracies, which have supported no law more faithfully than Parkinson...
...combative cynic of the open road. Like George and Lenny in Of Mice and Men−rather too much like them, in fact−Lion and Max fall in with each other while hitchhiking on a lonely country road. Max has spent six years in stir at San Quentin; Lion has been at sea in the merchant marine for five, fleeing the strangulating responsibilities of family and a 9-to-5 job. Lion is on his way to Detroit to see his wife and the child she was about to bear him when he took flight. Max is trying...
...fact that all three of the guards are women. Prison officials say that they "aren't making any concessions as to what these women might be called upon to do" in an emergency. All three-Joyce Zink at Folsom and Wilma Schneider and Bonni Briggs at San Quentin-were hired after the California Personnel Board ruled that women must be considered for guard jobs. Though the three are the first of their sex to serve as guards, they are not the first to hold "correctional" jobs in California's male prisons: for three years, the state has employed...