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...walled-in grass plot, his only change of scenery from the decaying prison. The cells were built with three-inch slits above the doors for air, but these have been sealed off so the prisoners cannot throw their shit into the corridors. Most of the cells nave no bathroom...

Author: By Bob Ullmann, | Title: Bridgewater: A Peculiar Institution | 2/12/1975 | See Source »

...best room in the house." Walking past packing boxes, a Tahitian rhythm drum and half a dozen guitars splayed next to a piano, Joni pirouettes proudly. "Isn't this a great old place? It was built in 1929. Look, it even has a hidden bathroom" (behind a wooden panel in the corridor wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: An Evening Spent at Joni's | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...harder work, not unbearable though. When I read about the extreme poverty that migrant lettuce workers live in I ask myself where because it's not in the Salinas Valley. All of my co-workers live in decent conditions, I know of no one that doesn't have a bathroom, running water, etc. Too many people do not know what farmworkers' conditions are like. I do not know what they are like outside the Salinas Valley. But don't tell me about such ugly conditions in the Salinas Valley because it's not true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEAL IN SALINAS | 12/10/1974 | See Source »

...years. But Lenny felt broken by the court decision, and without a livelihood, he lost his motivation to live. When the finance company notified him that his house was in forfeit, he poked a needle into his vein. He was found a few hours later, naked on the bathroom floor...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Shooting Down Lenny Bruce | 12/4/1974 | See Source »

After more than eight hours of torture, I was allowed to use a bathroom for the first time, then taken back to my cell and hung by handcuffs on the door for the night. I was in a standing position, the handcuffs so tight on my wrists that circulation was nearly cut off; my left hand had been sprained and was painfully swollen. I passed the night standing and occasionally dozing, then being jerked awake as I sagged toward the floor and the cuffs pulled painfully on my wrists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Torture, Brazilian Style | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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