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es demain eg Tas cis POPERYE = 19 would hold a revocation hearing. Nobody much likes the parole board and the community exploded. The issues were clear: they were trying to revoke Vop- eye's parole for a crime the jury said he didn't commit, FREE POPEYF buttons and posters appeared and it was written on walls and fencen everywhere. There were talk shows, newscasts, and rallies; the movement lined up Bolidly be- hind Popeye for the first and last time. The unit parole office was flooded with letters and phone calls and the board itself was probably deluged; few were unaware of the battle that was being fought. Popeye had become the event of the senson, San Quentin is a bleak fortress. Like the abandoned Alcatraz in the same San Francisco Hay, it is the prison of the 40's gangster movies, thirty years older. Its walls are high and wide; wide enough for a gunwalk on top. The main gun tower at the front gate features a machine gun on a 360° track and it is an arsenn) for teargas guns, small arms, machine guns, bombs, and anti-personnel grenades. To get to the big yard, you have to go through 4 separate locked gates; to get into the adjustment center or the regular hole, add three or four more. If you got all the way inside, there would always be a gunwalk overhead. If you got inside a cell, through the bars you would see two gunwalks opposite you. On the gunwalks are cops with sidearms for hand to hand combat; they also carry either a rifle, a shotgun, or a machine gun. It was here that the board decided to hold Popeye'a revocation hearing; they had taken counsel from their private C.I.A., and Popeye had to go. “Special Services is the CIA of corrections" said one parole officer, and they are remarkably alike, SS doea the dirty work for the board, for corrections and paroles, and on their own initintive; mostly on their own initintive,