A sad story

[Gonz]

That really loses its ability to sadden as you read farther into it.

GEORGETOWN, Ga. – As hard as it was to spend 35 years in prison for stealing a black-and-white television, Junior Allen has found freedom frustrating, too.

Sounds excessive until you get well into the story.

Allen was a strapping 30-year-old in 1970 when he walked into the unlocked home of an elderly North Carolina woman near Benson and took her $140, 19-inch black-and-white Motorola. He hid the set in the woods and never watched it. Police quickly arrested him at his labor camp by following his footprints.

But he acknowledges that the Allen who entered the North Carolina prison system 3 1/2 decades ago was “sort of wild,” a young tough who worked a moonshine still and hauled the contraband liquor in hopped-up Pontiacs.

When Allen arrived in the Tar Heel state, he had already been hardened by years as a migrant farm worker and itinerant construction laborer. By then, his rap sheet already included burglaries and a violent assault.

State records say Allen roughed up 87-year-old Lessie Johnson and stole her TV. Allen was not convicted of assault and denies he hurt the woman.

Ironically, if you consider that

Under the law of the day, a jury sentenced him to life in prison for second-degree burglary – a crime that today would carry a maximum punishment of three years. Bitter at his punishment, Allen admits he was not the best-behaved inmate

they had less crime than today.

Maybe part of the reason he stayed in jail had something to do with this

He had 47 infractions from 1972 to 2002, including gambling, weapons possession, lock tampering, misuse of medicine, profane language and making a verbal threat.

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I wonder, after a life in prison, does he qualify for social security?

 

[Mare]

I'd say it sounds he got lost somewhere in the system and just never had the intellegence to try to get himself out......

It is a shame....and wonder if he really would be able to get social security?

 

[Winky]

"does he qualify for social security?"

No.

but he can get SSI

 

[Gonz]

The reason I ask

Social Security retirement benefits can be paid to people who are 62 or older. Generally, you must have worked and paid Social Security taxes for 10 years to be eligible. Benefits are not paid for the months you have been sentenced to a jail, prison or correctional facility or confined to certain public institutions for committing a crime.

Mare, he wasn't lost. He was intentionally incarcerated for willingly violating the law & had no recourse. Todays' PC crowd will use him as a scapegoat to their end.