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Article: Brown keeps up the fight
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2002
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Brown keeps up the fight
Jailed Hall of Famer refuses to back down
By MIKE FREEMAN New York Times
Sunday, March 31, 2002
Jim Brown is on the telephone from Ventura County Jail in
California, and the sense of irony does not escape him. Normally when
Brown, a Hall of Fame running back, steps into a prison, he is
counseling inmates, preparing them for the day their sentences end
and they attempt to become functioning members of society. Now, Brown
is not an adviser who will stay for a few hours, then depart. He is
locked up in a cell the size of a walk-in closet. The teacher has
become a prisoner.
His voice sounds tired, perhaps the effects of his 14-day hunger
strike to protest what he calls ...