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Dec. 1, 2006

Letter from Lompoc

Writing from the inside, criminal defense lawyer J. Tony Serra reflects on serving time in prison for tax evasion. By J. Tony Serra

By J. Tony Serra
      Prisoner Number 99943-011
     
      Exactly 30 years ago, I was released from Lompoc Federal Prison Camp. Today I have returned, inmate once again: each time upheaved from an obsessively active criminal law practice; each time the consequence of my own volitional federal income tax resistance. At prison camp in 1976, I was a zealot of fiery political caus...

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