"Each Prisoner Pent"
| Title | "Each Prisoner Pent" |
| Year for Search | 1985 |
| Authors | Knight, Damon [Francis](1922-2002) |
| Secondary Title | Stardate |
| Volume / Edition | no. 8 (1.8) |
| Pagination | 6-7, 46 |
| Date Published | October 1985 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Satire on the costs of incarceration in which criminals are given minor punishments together with degrees of support depending on their crime because it is cheaper to provide a lavish life outside jail than to imprison people. Jails are turned over to artists, authors, and poets. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 76-80. |
| Author Note | (1922-2002) |
| Full Text | 1985 Knight, Damon [Francis] (1922-2002). “Each Prisoner Pent.” Stardate, no. 8 (1.8) (October 1985): 6-7, 46. Rpt. in his One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991), 76-80. Satire on the costs of incarceration in which criminals are given minor punishments together with degrees of support depending on their crime because it is cheaper to provide a lavish life outside jail than to imprison people. Jails are turned over to artists, authors, and poets. |
