He might have made it if he’d waited just a few more weeks, when the steam plant would have shut down for the summer. Scalding temperatures that topped 400 degrees forced him back. But he threw away his model prisoner status that May, stung by disappointment over a denied appeal, when he used a stolen hacksaw, chisel and crowbar to punch a hole in his cell wall and jimmy his way into a steam tunnel that led to the outside. Ray might have qualified for parole in another 32 years - in time for his 74th birthday. … just another prisoner and am treated as one.” Aborted escapes … I write memos to my lawyer … I’m in bed and asleep by 8 every night. “I work six hours a day, seven days a week. “I do not cause trouble here,” Ray told him. He granted one interview, to News Sentinel reporter Willard Yarbrough in March 1971 – to “let people outside know that I wasn’t crazy.” The resulting “exclusive” boasted barely enough drama for a church bulletin. Ray stayed in bed with the blankets pulled over his head.
Reporters and photographers periodically visited the prison.
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