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From: nobody@nately.ucsd.edu (Anonymous)
Subject: Baker life behind bars
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:30:04 +0000
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BAKER TELLS STORY OF LIFE BEHIND BARS

By Josh White The Michigan DAILY 3/13/95

"It is not something that any University student would ever want to go
through," LSA sophomore Jake Baker said of his time in jail over the
last month.  "It is great to be out."

Baker was released on bond Friday by Federal Judge Avern Cohn, who will
hear Baker's case in U.S. District Court beginning April 3.  Baker's
release ended more than a month of shuffling between the Wayne County
Jail and the Milan Federal Correctional Institute.

"When he was in Wayne County, it was terrible," Baker's mother said,
after a panel discussion at the Law Quad last Thursday.  "He barely had
anything to eat, and he lost 11 pounds in his first 10 days there."

She said he son missed a lot of things while behind bars, some of which
everyone takes for granted.

"He missed movement," she said.  "He couldn't walk around much and he was
in solitary confinement.  He also missed music.  You don't know what it
is like to just not hear music for that long."

Baker's stepfather, Donald Hutchison, said Baker's experience was better
once he was moved to Milan.

"At least at Milan, Jake could sleep and eat," Hutchison said. "At Wayne
County, he didn't have any paper or pen to write with, and he had
nothing to read.  It was hell for him and hell for us to have to watch
him like that.

"He doesn't ever want to get into trouble again."

Baker turned 21 on Thursday while at Milan, and his mother said he was
in good spirits at the time.

"While we should be singing 'Happy Birthday' and cutting cake right now,
we are optimistic for tomorrow," she said Thursday night, the day before
Baker's release.  "I reminded him of the Grateful Dead song in which the
line was, I believe, 'I turned 21 in jail.'  He laughed at that."

Baker said he was very happy to be out of jail.

"It feels very good to be able to go home," Baker said.  "The last month
was definitely not what I was used to."

Hutchison said the family planned to "get a good dinner." and then make
the drive back to Boardman, Ohio.