My first prison pen-pal

I was in high school, he was in the State pen

The criminal activity that landed him in the California state prison system had probably begun around 1970. The only letter I still have from him is postmarked November 21, 1973, from Chino, CA. I was in my first year of high school. He was forty and serving time for crimes against the County of Orange. He had been a credit and collections officer at th…