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  • On a cold fall day in 1984, at the age of 21, I sat in the holding tank of a Washington, DC precinct jail, listening to my jailmate describe his recent visit to South Africa.

    Jeff Biggers: Powershift09 to Capitol Power Action: Follow the Young 2009

  • "Constructive engagement is another slogan for a state of denial," my jailmate, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, told me.

    Jeff Biggers: Powershift09 to Capitol Power Action: Follow the Young 2009

  • I am reading the new (and only) biography of Zarqawi by Fu'ad Husayn (a Jordanian journalist and his former jailmate--and I wrote about him before when he produced the Zarqawi documentary for LBC-TV).

    Friday, September 30, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • Kugler questioned the testimony of Nicole McDaniel, a former jailmate of Caldwell, who came forward in the middle of the trial and said Caldwell told her she hit her son in the chest two days before his death and pushed him into the bathroom at Willis' house, causing him to hit the toilet.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Kugler questioned the testimony of Nicole McDaniel, a former jailmate of Caldwell, who came forward in the middle of the trial and said Caldwell told her she hit her son in the chest two days before his death and pushed him into the bathroom at Willis' house, causing him to hit the toilet.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • "Constructive engagement is another slogan for a state of denial," my jailmate, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, told me.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Reports say he chatted 'for several hours' with fellow Andhra jailmate, Kosaraju Venkateshwara Rao, former chairman of Hyderabad's Krushi Bank, who allegedly duped depositors of nearly Rs 32 crore (Rs 320 million) and fled to Bangkok.

    rediff.com 2009

  • On a cold fall day in 1984, at the age of 21, I sat in the holding tank of a Washington, DC precinct jail, listening to my jailmate describe his recent visit to South Africa.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • And Natty Nation got a jail bait dancing with a jailmate.

    Madison.com - top 2008

  • When a jailmate offered condolences, Sinclair replied: "Don't worry about that, young fellow!

    A Gusher of Trouble Bill Kauffman 2008

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