Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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He had no easy task. For the most part, British prisons were built in Victorian times, when a prisoner was locked in his cell all day and even ate his meals in it. Thus the jails are ill prepared for today's more relaxed approach, in which inmates gather...
Charged with attempted escape from Western Penitentiary, Convicts Richard Mayberry, Dominic Codispodi and Herbert Langnes set out to goad Judge Fiok into declaring a mistrial. They demanded the right to defend themselves; and once they got it, they proceeded to act like crazy lawyers and harass Judge Fiok all the...
Remarkably, it took the jury nearly seven hours to find the cons guilty-whereupon Judge Fiok finally had his innings. After handing each defendant a sentence of up to 40 years, Fiok rattled off contempt citations that added up to a total of 37 years to be served in solitary...
Second Try. At week's end the Viet Cong decided to try again. This time they kidnaped 108 residents of Dinh Cu hamlet, just a mile or two from Long Vinh. The peasants there are no more likely than the first group to cozy up to the Viet Cong...
Lewis draws a distinction between poverty and what he calls the "culture of poverty"-a perpetuation, at society's lowest levels, of the patterns of life that form, over generations and sometimes centuries, a kind of prison. It is a prison whose door stands open a crack, says Lewis...