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Brian-Jon Swift, who sold about two pounds of marijuana and some LSD to a detective, first told the police who arrested him that he was a student at Harvard. Later he admitted that he merely takes night courses in the Harvard Extension program...
Police called the two pounds of marijuana confiscated directly from Swift "the largest amount ever found in a narcotics investigation in Vermont...
Police said a smaller quantity of drugs, including LSD, was found later in a Montpelier home. Although they had a search warrant, a spokesman for the police said, detectives masqueraded as friends of Swift's in order to search his rooms...
...spokesman for the police said that Swift's calling himself a Harvard student will be considered a lie, and "they will ask him about it during the trial...
...destroys them. In On the Yard, this inescapable fact is driven home by the sadistic breaking of "Chilly Willy," a boss con who traffics in cigarettes and Benzedrine inhalers. Prison officials frame him in a homosexual plot, and he is shunted into the psychiatric ward. Though a swift, engrossing narrative in its own right, Braly's novel stands as a caustic indictment of the American penal system. From Dostoevsky to Genet, writers have used prison as an effective metaphor of the human condition. Braly strips away the literary conceits and makes life on the inside painfully real...