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Houston, one long-locked salesman was beaten by police for no apparent reason, his attorney charges...
...hazards for which no prison can be blamed. In a Harris poll, 72% of Americans endorsed rehabilitation as the prison goal. But when it came to hiring an ex-armed robber who had shot someone, for example, 43% would hesitate to employ him as janitor, much less as a salesman (54%) or a clerk handling money (71%). This is obviously understandable; it also teaches ex-cons that crime pays because nothing else does...
...subsequently convicted 18 times for drug possession and related offenses. Neither fear of jail nor intensive efforts by doctors freed him from drugs. But today Smith's life is significantly different. At 42, he is married, and he recently left his job as a shoe salesman to help rehabilitate other addicts. As far as heroin is concerned, he is clean. Still, Dan Smith (not his real name) is an addict of sorts. Every morning he stops at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center to down a cup of Tang spiked with methadone, a synthetic drug that he takes...
...even when he was a young businessman selling cars, real estate and insurance in Stockton, Calif. Today he is a sick old man of 76 with a failing heart and a blood condition that has already caused the amputation of one leg. But between his youth as a hustling salesman and an old age spent in a dim house, he was Santa Claus, and he built a town to prove...
Falling and Screaming. Sledge, 23, Calley's radio-telephone operator and now a salesman of ladies' luggage, was the first to testify last week. His tale was one of continuing horror. He recalled coming upon a group of 30 or 40 Vietnamese civilians gathered at an intersection and under guard by former Pfc. Paul Meadlo. (Meadlo has so far refused to testify at the trial, claiming the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.) According to Sledge, Calley went up to Meadlo and ordered him to "waste 'em, and Meadlo started shooting into the people−about ten feet...