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...North Las Vegas a judge offered a punishment-fits-the-crime choice to a man who had beaten a four-year-old with a belt: a $100 fine plus either 20 days or a public flogging of ten lashes with a bailiff's belt. He took the licking. One week later in the same town, a man being sentenced for starving some horses chose 24 hours in the slammer with no food rather than seven days with the regular amenities...
...house bankrupts in London's two debtors' prisons, despite the exaction of stiff entrance fees and rents for all cells better than the most wretched. Accordingly, Parliament voted to turn the debtors loose. One of them was Jonathan Wild, an energetic, 29-year-old bucklemaker and bailiff's nark whose sole distinction before his imprisonment was that he had accumulated debts...
...officially allowed any company, and McBride had the authorities peering over his shoulder. "One time down at the pool," he recalled, "I met this real cute, real friendly girl. I knew something was going to happen if I could get to know her a little, but this big female bailiff came up while we were talking and asked, 'Do you know this woman, Mr. McBride?' I said, 'No, but I will in a few minutes.' So the bailiff made me go upstairs, even though the girl said she wouldn't mention a thing about...
...bailiff said as he sat cross-armed in his metal folding chair and swayed his head, eyes closed, back and forth. He motioned for the guard to clear the three of us (two LNS reporters and myself) from the building, but a defense attorney who had witnessed the short exchange intervened, perhaps out of sheer malice, and found us seating...
...felt a peculiar guilt for not having "taken a stand" on that Chicago trial. The experience of a single day in that courtroom, seeing the tyranny of Judge Hoffman, the symbolic conflicts that bubbled out in overruled objections, asides, lunch table conversations, the patient puritan demeanor of the courtroom bailiff and the unconventional defense does not, I suppose, give anyone a superior claim to deeper conscience than the person who reads about the trial in the newspapers. But it does bring the people into focus and makes the pain of silence a little more sharp. I can never clearly...