I was going through some old emails to which I had meant to
respond and I ran across this from Richard Moore:
"One of Nussbaum's major points is that among themselves
prisoners seldom deny guilt. Sometimes they even pretend to
greater offenses in order to gain status and
acceptance...such as a check passer pretending to be a bank
robber."
This reminds me of country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe.
He used to brag about beating a black convict to death in the
showers while serving time at the Ohio State Penitentiary.
This was questioned first in a television documentary about
Coe and then debunked by Rolling Stone magazine, both in
1975. The producer of that doumentary said, "It's my guess
that the bigger your crime, the more status you have in
prison, and that he began telling the story while in jail,
and just continued it when he began his singing career" (from
Randall Riese's Nashville Babylon).
And they say it's only the rappers who promote themselves
with their
(often inflated) criminal activities.
Mark
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