Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facilities, and stays in solitary must not exceed 15 days. The court also ruled that institution officials were failing to make an effort to rehabilitate some inmates. One of the prisoners' lawyers, Julian Tepper of the National Law Office in Washington, D.C., believes that the verdict establishes a convict's nascent right to rehabilitation that will become a precedent in other states. Patuxent officials plan to appeal the decision...
...fiscal year 1970-71, says Leeke, each full-time inmate cost South Carolina $1,832 to maintain. But each prisoner on work release pays the state $1,278 out of his earnings for room, board and transportation. Furthermore, the average working convict pays $908.70 in social security, state and federal taxes. The total payments make the employed convict a net asset...
...that moment comes in one of her best-known stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. A maniac escaped from prison has just slaughtered a family despite the pitifully agile efforts of the grandmother to cajole or convert him. "She would of been a good woman," the convict mumbles, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life...
...found it wasn't brought into this prison by any convict. You can believe that...
Harrison said that the large number of people who attended the trial helped his case. "If people continue to show up to support me. I think it would be too exposing for them to convict me," he said...