Author: clinteifling@yahoo.com

In August 1841, a Boston, Massachusetts shoemaker named John Augustus bailed the first person out of jail. The person was a “common drunkard”, married with kids. A “common drunkard” is “legally defined at the time as someone who had arrested for intoxication at least three times in a six-month period” ( Panzarella, R. (2002, December).…