“Friday, Febuary 1, 1980. There was a full moon that Friday night. I watched it move across the patch of sky framed by the window near my bunk, noticing how it turned the desert surrounding the penitentiary ghost white.”
“Friday, Febuary 1, 1980. There was a full moon that Friday night. I watched it move across the patch of sky framed by the window near my bunk, noticing how it turned the desert surrounding the penitentiary ghost white. I even thought about all the superstitions connected with the full moon and something I\’d read recently about a survey proving that crime realy did increase every month when the moon was full. I was tuned in but not enough It didn\’t cross my mind that the instigators of a long panned riot would choose this night to put their scheme into action, maybe because I didn\’t really think of a prison uprising as something criminal; to me it was a righteous and overdue response to years of abuse, mental and physical. All that overdue rage, though, made people go crazier than anyone expected.”
By W.G. Stone as told to G. Hirliman
The Hate Factory
Paisano Publications, 1982
Hate Factory
By W.G. Stone as told to G. Hirliman. The Hate Factory. Paisano Publications, 1982
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