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...WRONG turn we took on the Mass. Turnpike made us late for the basketball game with the Billerica Jail and House of Correction...
...Billerica houses convicts between 19 and 50 years old. The average age of the inmates is 21 and the maximum sentence at the House of Correction, where we were to play, is two years...
...This ain't no jail," said Mike O'Keefe, a guard who was sitting at the desk on the stage. O'Keefe, 25, moonlights at Billerica to support his young family. "They (the prisoners) got TV in their rooms, (he didn't say cells), a snack bar, almost everything there is on the outside. They got all this equipment to work out on but they're just a bunch of dead-beats. All they want to do is sit downstairs and watch television and talk to their folks and girlfriends who come to see them pretty often, two or three...
...showed us the stairs to the gym. We went up alone, the four of us, and walked onto what was being used as a basketball court, where our team, the Harvard Classics, was already playing against the Billerica squad, which was outfitted in jeans cut off or cuffed to various lengths. They all didn't have a shirt alike so they were playing "skins." Nobody on their team wore a shirt...
...very informal so while waiting to get in the game I walked around and talked to some of the people who sat in wooden chairs on the stage and watched the game. One guy watching the game was a high school sophomore who was finishing his first day at Billerica. A judge sentenced him to 30 days for hitting his teacher...