Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> At 07:26 PM 5/19/2008, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> >I think
> >it is not coincidence - it is a service geared toward
> >the poor, and packaged accordingly
>
> I took a long Greyhound ride through several southwestern states a
> few years ago. I overheard enough conversations to learn that a
> number of passengers were family members or girlfriends visiting
> people in prison.
Some years ago I took a Greyhound from Bloomington to Chicago. The bus filled up in Pontiac -- where there is a large state prison, over 100 miles from where most of the relatives live. No one disorderly on the bus -- unless you count the leg-room between seats as violence.
Carrol