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It was about 8:40 this morning when the big inner door at San Quentin opened for 35 year old Rick. Luci Lucci who has been serving a life sentence for a kidnap robbery in Los Angeles was paroled after 11 years, nine months behind bars. During that time

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he received national acclaim for a play he wrote entitled La Cage that was produced by the then san Francisco actor's workshop. Lucci accompanied by newsman took the long and hopefully his last walk out of the California prison system. As he came through the outer gate, I

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talked with this unusual man who has had no more than an eighth grade education. Well Rick, this is quite a send off you're getting here today. How do you feel at this moment? Well Roland I feel tremendously alive and enthusiastic about this great world out here

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and it's been 11 years and nine months of prison for me, I have a certain amount of regret leaving some wonderful people behind friends I've made over the years and guys whom I've come to love and respect and I look forward to the day when they

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can join me out here in society and eventually I want my own theater and I'm thinking more and more in terms of a convict theater, a theater like had in san Quentin theater comprised of people that I think I know and understand people who we look

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upon as the outcasts and rejects and second class citizens but in reality I think it was the horde of undesirables who I came to this country from europe who made this country what it is today. Lucci was met at the gate by officials of the Seven

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Steps Foundation, an organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of parolees. After much handshaking, he was driven off in a white rolls Royce, leaving la cage behind him. This is Roland post at SAn Quentin.