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~ . . " POPEYE = 5 Te aan ade Alsen «= hy Neeor . Se ea ee ~ (lB Released on parole in 1962, the 32 year old Popeye was out less than 90 days. This time, he and a crime partner robbed a florist. The take was two dollars and some pennies, a wristwatch, and a partially amoked pack of cigarettes. The florist got pistol whipped and Popeye got five years to life; robbery with a prior felony conviction, weapons, and violence. Ae the years slipped away in monotony, fear, and loneliness, he became filled with a preat anger. If he got mad, he might shout insulta right in your face, - daring you to provoke a violence that he was just barely able to control. His reputation included three murders and he used it to intimidate anyone he could. San yuentin even takes from you the power to decide when you will eat or shower ' and the experience can fill you with o great need to control people and events. Following a long established tradition, Popeye adopted the tactics of his ap- pressors and used intimidation to fulfill hie need for power. If he could make you afraid of him, he was in control. Carl: “At that time in Folsom, interracial anything: living in the same cell, eating at the snme dinner table, fucking, sucking, or just about anything ex- : cept for money hustle on the yard, was segregated. Popeye ran around with 4 i white homosexual... this never happened before... in the history of Folsom Prison. The homosexual he had was the ugliest homosexual in the whole penal system... nobody else really wanted her anyway... she looked Like Smokey the Renr."' He had nerve and was feared, but he did not have a good reputation and was known as a pressure artist and an intimidator of queens. Sally won one of the foundors of the Prisoners! Union: "...once you started looking at the prinon ayntem, you could renily soo Popeys, He wan a human Bcc an As oe ape