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Fast-Lane Living Dallas to San Quentin
By Annabelle Robertson
Published: 04/14/2009

Bill Dallas had it all. An undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University, a high-flying career as a San Francisco investment entrepreneur, am expensive penthouse, a flashy sports car, vacations in Paradise and women, women and more women. He enjoyed it all, too, drinking and drugging and partaking of all the fleshly delights of the social circuit. Until it all came crashing down.

Following a couple of years of legal wrangling, Dallas was shocked when he was actually convicted of grand theft embezzlement—a felony. He had been scamming customers by co-mingling funds, apparently, but was unaware that this was a crime, much less how serious the offense actually was. When Dallas was sentenced to several years at San Quentin, one of the country’s most notorious prisons, he was even more dumbfounded—so much so that he could barely rise from the ground of the prison yard, which held him hostage. Every day, Dallas would curl up in the fetal position, whimpering, while fellow inmates hurled insults. He grew a ZZ Top beard, gained weight, got out of shape and lost all desire to live.
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