Playboy To The Rescue
May, 1977
Two years ago, Playboy published the story of Thomas Francis Mistrot, a 28-year-old Texas State Prison inmate serving a life sentence as a habitual criminal. Mistrot was an orphan raised in state institutions, and the three felonies that qualified him for a life sentence consisted of twice stealing coins from vending machines as a teenager and later giving a tiny amount of marijuana to two Dallas undercover cops in lieu of some money he owed them. The laws had since changed, but not Mistrot's se...
