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July 1979

Because Somebody Cared

SEVENTEEN MONTHS ago, I sat behind bars, doing six months for a crime I should have gotten five to ten years for. Twelve of us "confinees" (the Navy does not use the word prisoners in its correctional centers) sat in a room, all wondering what we had been selected for.

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