Today on SkyNews (Robert Redford will be retiring as announced in 2016 after this movie):
https://news.sky.com/story/robert-redford-movie-legend-says-he-will-quit-acting-after-next-film-11463686
In The Old Man & The Gun, Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a real-life bank robber and career convict, who escaped from prison multiple times - including once in a kayak - and went on to commit further robberies.
"To me, that was a wonderful character to play at this point in my life…The thing that really got me about him - which I hope the film shows - is he robbed 17 banks and he got caught 17 times and went to prison 17 times," he said.
"But he also escaped 17 times. So it made me wonder: I wonder if he was not averse to getting caught so he that could enjoy the real thrill of his life, which is to escape?" he added.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/the-old-man-and-the-gun
(He actually broke out successfully 18 times and unsuccessfully 12 times)
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labor chain gang “shackle poisoning” (https://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question45404.html)
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one of his unsuccessful attempts culminated with him being apprehended after a few hours in a cornfield.
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Dad left at 6, he was in jail for the first time by 15. He was released but locked back up within six months and sentenced to ten years for car theft. Later his lawyer would write in a court motion: “Marked as a criminal at seventeen years old and constantly railroaded through judicial proceedings without the benefit of counsel, Forrest Tucker was becoming an angry young man.”
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“Q” = San Quentin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Mile_(prison_rehabilitation_program)
Legal/Prison Reform?
https://www.routefifty.com/public-safety/2018/07/federal-judge-albuquerque-civil-forfeitureunconstitutional/150159/
^^ Posted about this the other day. Civil forfeiture foolery is a big part of the War on Drugs/DEA racketeering. This is how an agency/government amasses additional funds not budgeted to them, for example. One aspect of the private prison industrial complex. This ruling should be the foundation for some big cases.