The seven-year prison sentence is not that great, but it's not out of the ballpark for sentences in Mississippi.

It's not uncommon for them to serve short sentences, if they serve any sentence at all. That's not unusual nationwide. The guidelines the courts are bound by are not as strict as they probably should be.

These sentences frankly are out of control. You get a sentence that's akin to what you would get for a homicide or for rape. In a white collar case, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by

Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)