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Page 68
That way he would figure me for a tough guy and send me to Sing Sing Prison , where I would be out in only nine months . This is how it worked . At the reformatory I wouldn't get any time off for good behavior . But my sentence at Sing ...
That way he would figure me for a tough guy and send me to Sing Sing Prison , where I would be out in only nine months . This is how it worked . At the reformatory I wouldn't get any time off for good behavior . But my sentence at Sing ...
Page 69
A few days later Valachi was taken to Sing Sing . At first his strategy to escape a longer sentence in a reformatory seemed a dreadful mistake . He was placed in a tiny , clammy cell with no sanitary facilities other than a bucket .
A few days later Valachi was taken to Sing Sing . At first his strategy to escape a longer sentence in a reformatory seemed a dreadful mistake . He was placed in a tiny , clammy cell with no sanitary facilities other than a bucket .
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It's just all the things you learn about human nature in another world , and believe me , Sing Sing was another world . ” Valachi faced some immediate problems when he was released . Even if he had wanted to , he could not return to the ...
It's just all the things you learn about human nature in another world , and believe me , Sing Sing was another world . ” Valachi faced some immediate problems when he was released . Even if he had wanted to , he could not return to the ...
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| Title | The Valachi Papers Bantam books |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0399108327, 9780399108327 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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