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...Roach, speaking before an organizing meeting at the Divinity School, said that Gulf sponsors an oppressive Portuguese colonial regime in Angola...
...believe Gulf is guilty of unethical, irresponsible business activity," Roach said. "Our goal is to cut Gulf's profits across the board...
...Merhige handed down a sharply worded ruling that found the state's prison officials guilty of "grave disregard of constitutional guarantees." This time he cited specific illegal actions: bread-and-water diets, arbitrary use of tear gas, extended periods of solitary confinement, placing prisoners naked in a hot, roach-infested cell, and taping, chaining or handcuffing inmates to cell bars. The monetary award reflected the loss of prison pay through unconstitutional solitary confinement, plus what Merhige called "reasonable sums for pain and suffering...
...going insane in that room," says "Roach" Brown. A onetime street hustler convicted of murder, he was talking about his solitary confinement after a 1968 riot at the Lorton Reformatory near Washington, D.C. Brown lost track of time-first the date, then the day of the week, eventually even night and day. "I used to talk to myself and laugh and cry," he remembers. "I wanted someone to see me, to say they cared." Finally, one day, the sliding panel in his cell door clicked open, a hand reached in with two packs of cigarettes plus a ration of candy...
...Roach Brown insists that his play about how various prisoners react to Christmas is all too accurate. Indeed, after every trip outside, it has taken all his strength to readjust to prison. "Sometimes I think it's harder doing time this way than staying in Lorton all the time," says Brown. "Comin' back in, I move slow. Try to get the feel in the air. I take three times as long to put on my shoes, lace 'em up. I got to get the feel. If I can't, if I laugh or tell a joke...