Jailed with the Mayday Tribe.

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  • Author(s): Mathews, John
  • Source:
    Nation. 5/24/1971, Vol. 212 Issue 21, p646-648. 3p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      IMPRISONMENT; POLICE; PRISONS; SANDWICHES; DETENTION of persons; CRIMINAL procedure
    • Abstract:
      The author was busted during the nonviolent Mayday sit-down in front of a Justice Department. A police inspector and the author had a disagreement over the author's right to cover the story. After a brief discussion, the inspector took the author firmly by the arm to a prison. The author's discomforts in confinement were typical; 106 people in a 40-by-21-foot cell for six and a half hours, then sixty-six inmates in an 18-by-20-foot cell for eight and a half hours; and two bologna sandwiches, no ability to make phone calls. Many more young people suffered much worse pre-arraignment punishments.