Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breeding was wearing thin; some of the girls ran through the corridors barebreasted, yelling "Jail-break!" The girls were also arrested during the violent Weatherman clashes with police in Chicago's Grant Park last October. But their class privileges paid off: the women were released in $40,000 bail. They are supposed to go on trial this week...
...defendants became instant heroes to many of their white neighbors. As they marched out of jail on bail, one woman said: "Any man who spent a night in jail for doing what is right got a right to be proud today." Best's followers, mostly poorer whites in work clothes, complained that the school board had rigged its desegregation plan to fall most heavily on them, while middle-class whites would be little affected...
Twelve of the 13 Black Panthers accused of plotting to blow up New York City police stations and department stores remain in jail. Since April, they have been unable to raise money for their high bail, which ranges from $50,000 to $100,000 each. Last week they underlined their unwillingness to cooperate with New York Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh, who had said that he would not reopen their pretrial hearings until they promised in writing to behave in court (TIME, March 9). Instead of complying, the Panthers demanded a reduction in their "contemptuous" bail and a reconsideration...
...they petition the federal courts for release on constitutional grounds. At the same time, lengthy incarceration will enhance their image as martyrs to judicial prejudice. That image is already well formed; twelve of the 13 have been in jail since last April because they were unable to raise high bail...
Professor Lipset and myself have been virtually the only members of this conference to talk about the violence of Mexico in 1968 in which over 300 students were killed by the Mexican army. There are still over 100 students in jail, who are denied bail and have been kept in jail for a period of time that is longer than the Constitution provides for. I delivered a paper on Mexican students devoting much of my presentation to the events of 1968. I pointed out that it was the unwarranted brutality of the "granaderos" or riot police that provided the "trigger...