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: Aids | . a C £) NY 100-161445 cone NTiAL } "Phe East Village Other”, a New York City weekly jareseie bg in its March 10, 1970 issue on Page 4, contained an article by MIXE GOLD entitled “Chicago” which stated as follows: "Cook County Jail isn't known for being one of America's more hospitable institutions. Not very remarkably, most of its inmates are black; most of them haven't been found guilty in a ‘’court of law' yet. The jail helps to find issues: most of the inmates are awaiting trial, they are too poor, too young and too black to afford the high bail set by the judge. "Life in jail isn't like the T.V. suggests. The day after Abbie Hoffman was released from solitary confinement for calling @ guard a pig, he risked being tossed back in the hole to smuggle the following message to his sisters and brothers: "T've just been moved out of isolation, just so the newsmen could see me.in the cage so clean and neat. It's unbelievable. I was told our pictures are all in every paper today as I predicted. The warden made a special deal with then. It’s so obscene, just like I said in my closing statement: ‘Delilah is waiting in the wings; our heads will be shaved, just like in Nazi Germany. Tomorrow we will sell the hair outside the prison walis.' "Y hear on the news now they are bragging they clipped twelve inches of hair off me. Jerry and I were dragged down four floors, but they dont tell that part. "It was the bloodiest haircut in penal history. The newsmen that come through here are taken on a whirlwind smear tour with no conversation allowed between them and us. Everything they write about our stay is untrue and just public relations (obscene) carried on by the warden's staff. "Jerry and I nave lost a lot of weight. The food ie unfit for human consumption. A system of informers and guards is always present in an attempt to ferret out information. This letter is even written at great risk because if anything is -15. -GUIVFIDENTIAL en oe