Educational survey of Spalding County, Georgia

I was arraigned before a U.S. commissioner who bound me over for trial under a $250,000 bond and remanded me to the detention house pending a decision on the part of prosecutors as to where to bring me to trial. Two months later the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Georgia prevailed, and U.S. marshals took me to the Fulton County, Georgia, jail to await my trial. The Fulton County Jail was a pest hole, a real roach pit. БЂњItБЂ™s bad news, man,БЂ«said another prisoner I met in the day room of our cruddy cellblock. БЂњThe only decent facility in the joint is the hospital, and you have to be dying to get in there.БЂ«The only decent facility in the day room was a pay telephone. I plopped a dime in and dialed the desk sergeant. БЂњThis is Dr. John Petsky,БЂ«I said in authoritative tones. БЂњYou have a patient of mine as a prisoner, one Frank Abagnale. Mr. Abagnale is a severe diabetic, subject to frequent comas, and I would appreciate it, Sergeant, if you could confine him in your medical ward where I can visit him and administer proper treatment.БЂ«Within thirty minutes a jailer appeared to escort me to the hospital ward, leaving the other inmates who had heard my conversation grinning in admiration. A week later a U.S. marshal appeared, took me into custody and transferred me to the Federal Detention Center in Atlanta to await trial ...»