[lbo-talk] Up the river

[kelley at pulpculture.org]

Was listening to this morning's discussion of the Tyco trial on NPR. 
According to the report, the defendants face the possibility of going to 
Sing Sing, not a country-club style Fed Pen, because the trial is in NY.

I know two people who were sent up the river to a country club Fed Pen, 
Allenwood in PA, and the trial was in NY. One was the mafia boss I 
mentioned a while back. The other was a bank loan officer at a small home 
town bank. He was ripping off the bank to pay off gambling debts and got 
caught when a losing streak meant that he couldn't pay it off. Werid thing 
was, the guy had a sports card collection that, had he sold it, he could 
have paid it off! We worked together for a year and half in between 
sentencing and when he actually went to prison. I'd get in his car and it'd 
be littered with the wrappers from the bubble gum he'd buy for the sports 
cards inside. Letters from him while he was in prison indicated that he 
just had to slip the guards $100 and go into town for a weekend, uh, furlow.

So when did this change?  War on Drugs?

Kelley