title: Doing Time: Papers from Framingham Prison
author:  Katherine A. Power 
description: Katherine Ann Power, a native of Denver, evolved from student activist against the Vietnam War to guerrilla warrior, to fugitive on the FBI Most Wanted list, to prisoner, penitent and now practical peace catalyst. Power was the getaway driver for a bank robbery gone bad in 1970. A student protester at Brandeis University, she joined a group willing to take radical action against the Vietnam War. But things went wrong when an Irish policeman and father of nine was shot and killed during the robbery. She fled, living underground for 23 years, before her surrender in 1993. Power served six years in Framingham Prison (Framingham, Massachusetts) and has just completed 20 years of probation.
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  ## George Orwell
  
  
  ### Decline of the English Murder
  
  
  PENGUIN BOOKS — GREAT IDEAS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  [Clink](chapter001.html#dec0000055)
  
  
  [Decline of the English Murder](chapter002.html#dec0000182)
  
  
  [Just Junk – But Who Could Resist It?](chapter003.html#dec0000197)
  
  
  [Good Bad Books](chapter004.html#dec0000219)
  
  
  [Boys’ Weeklies](chapter005.html#dec0000246)
  
  
  [Women’s Twopenny Papers](chapter006.html#dec0000394)
  
  
  [The Art of Donald McGill](chapter007.html#dec0000403)
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Clink
  
  
  This trip was a failure, as the object of it was to get into prison, and I did
  not, in fact, get more than forty-eight hours in custody; however, I am
  recording it, as the procedure in the police court etc. was fairly
  interesting. I am writing this eight months after it happened, so am not
  certain of any dates, but it all happened a week or ten days before Xmas 1931.
  
  
  I started out on Saturday afternoon with four or five shill