Word: contrabanding
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Most prosecutors and judges simply cannot become overly excited about contraband cigarettes. In New York State, no smugglers have ever been fined more than $400, and hardly any go to jail even...
...kids move through the countless metal doors. Past the place where visitors have the insides of their shoes checked for contraband, past the detectors, the armed guard in the tower, the massive barbed-wire topped wall. To the right is the maximum end, where brutal conditions recently precipitated yet another hunger strike by inmates. Reach-Out participants head to the left, to what, in a maximum security prison, is euphemistically known as the "minimum" end because prisoners are not locked in their cells all day and prevented from taking part in programs. (Euphemism has taken hold in the prison bureaucracy...
...explain satisfactorily how the prisoners had come into possession of pistols, knives, explosives and radios. It suggested that the items must have been smuggled in some time before the prisoners were put into solitary confinement following Schleyer's kidnaping. Another theory: prison guards had found the contraband but did not confiscate it, after being threatened with reprisals against their families. Such threats have been made before against Germans who have not wanted to help Baader-Meinhof gang members...
...racist. They claimed Ray had often talked in prison about getting the man whom Ray called "the big nigger." To McMillan, Ray may have been a bumbler as a thief, but he grew shrewd in the ways of prison life and earned much money dealing in drugs and other contraband behind the walls. McMillan claims Ray sent about $6,500 out of prison from such earnings-and that this money later largely financed his travels as a fugitive (TIME...
...Coors beer and bring it home in a day's time. The distance is 1,800 miles. The plan is for Burt, driving a sports car, to act as diversionary force if the Smokey Bears come around while Jerry chugs along with their precious (and, in Georgia, contraband) cargo...