Word: harshness
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...guest-starred future schlock-erotic moviemaker Zalman King ("The Red Shoe Diaries"); the women's prison episode costarring low-budget icons Shirley Stoler and Sally Kirkland; an earlier babes-behind-bars outing in which a pre-"Love Boat" Lauren Tewes implores the Angels to rescue her sister from a harsh prison run by Warhol/Corman veteran Mary Woronov - a prison also inhabited by future Oscar winner Kim Basinger. And the series featured not only the requisite '70s guest appearance by Sammy Davis Jr. (playing twins!), but also a dramatic turn (if you can call it that) by Dean Martin...
Much of the increase in the rate of female incarceration is a direct result of harsh mandatory-sentencing laws that impose minimum jail times for all drug offenses. Many of these drug offenders are women, frequently poor African Americans and Hispanics, who wind up in prisons built for hard-core male felons, not pregnant and parenting women. "These kids are innocent victims of their parents' misconduct," says David Steinhart, co-author of the 1993 book Why Punish the Children...
...nearest hospital. But since prisons are often far from hospitals and expectant mothers must clear various security hurdles, women inmates are at greater risk of delivering their babies before they can make it to a hospital. A scathing report by Amnesty International helped draw public attention to the sometimes harsh treatment of pregnant inmates, such as shackling them during labor--a practice that has since been outlawed in the state of Illinois...
...Peres-Arafat truce had been an unlikely end to a day of gun battles that claimed the lives of six Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers. The escalation of the shooting war had prompted Barak to prepare new harsh counter-measures Wednesday, but those were suspended after the latest truce agreement...
...dumb by proving he could count out consecutive numbers. ?I believe we ought to measure a lot - three, four, five, six, seven, eighth grade. We do so in my state of Texas." For some reason the Truster declared "The Subject might exaggerate from time to time." That seemed unfairly harsh. Perhaps it was chiding Bush for missing out on the first two grades...