> City of Angels is a misnomer. City of
ex-cons
> is more like it. This town has more former
convicts
> than anywhere in the country, and novelist
Edward
> Bunker is well aware of how integral
their
> subculture is to the mainstream that locks more
and
> more citizens away each year.
>
> Retrieving a steam iron from a corner of
his
> cell-like converted garage, Bunker begins
getting
> himself "bonarooed," the convict's age-old
practice
> of giving attitude to prison clothes, declaring
that
> you can lock up a man but you can't lock out
his
> desire for individuality or incarcerate his
spirit.
> Meticulously he spray starches a freshly
washed
> short-sleeved shirt and embeds razor-sharp
creases
> in his khaki pants.
>
> "Prison habits die hard," he says.
Full article available at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/timesmag/20001001/t000093043.html
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