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- <text id=90TT2199>
- <title>
- Aug. 20, 1990: American Notes:California
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 49
- American Notes
- CALIFORNIA
- Farewell to Club Fed
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Whites were never required for tennis. But the fact that
- there was a court and other such amenities, along with a
- clientele of celebrity convicts like Wall Street finagler Ivan
- Boesky and Watergate culprit H.R. Haldeman, earned California's
- Lompoc Federal Prison Camp a reputation as a country club. Set
- on 42 campus-like acres, Club Fed, as it was called, had
- neither walls nor armed guards. Its 650 or so mostly
- white-collar prisoners rose at 6 a.m. to pancakes or oatmeal and
- worked until 3:30, earning 11 cents to 42 cents an hour
- (Boesky cleaned the visiting room). Then they were free to jog,
- play softball, watch TV, read the papers or bowl on the lawn.
- </p>
- <p> But the good old days are no more. With other federal
- prisons overflowing, Lompoc is now a low-security facility,
- complete with a 12-ft.-high double fence topped by razor wire.
- At best, the new Lompoc rates barely one star.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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