Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most people in prisons are repent offenders, in part because there in hardly enough room in the nation's prisons for first time criminals, but also because our society is developing an underclass of common criminally. The National Coalition for Jail Reform reports that, of the 500,000 women who spent time in jail during 1984, 58 percent had lived on less that $3000 a year and 92 percent had lived on less than $10,000 a year. Clearly, prostitution, drug use, mugging and petty crimes are associated with lack of economic opportunity and of social infrastructure. Without services like...
...give me you tired, your poor, your huddled masses who have earned the right to breathe free. Rise up America, red, yellow, brown, Black and white. Rise up America, we're all persons in God's sight. Let's march together let's stand together. Let's go to jail together, let's live together, let's fight together. Freedom is now. Freedom...
...Bulow was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the 1982 trial. But he has never spent a night in jail, thanks to a successful appeal masterminded by Dershowitz last year in the Rhode Island Supreme Court...
...rewards of up to $2,500 and police awards banquets at which some 400 citizens a year are honored for their aid. "Over half the people who call in aren't interested in the reward," says Savannah Police Chief David Gellatly. "They just want the s.o.b. to go to jail...
...convicted in February of transporting Salvadorans who illegally entered the country and of conspiracy; in Brownsville, Texas. Elder, facing a maximum of 30 years, refused an offer of two years' probation if he would end his activities and public support for the sanctuary movement. The judge imposed a light jail sentence, he said, because "I admire your motivation...