Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different forms, it would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who can prove longtime residency in the U.S., and would apply penalties against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens in the future. Mexican Americans in particular oppose the bill on the ground that employers, fearing fines or even jail, will refuse to hire all Hispanics, including American citizens...
...year, lent a local group $500,000, interest free, to help build a hockey arena, and spent another half a million dollars to lengthen the runway of the municipal airport. Then, in a sharp turn of events, Ramirez presented himself two weeks ago at the nearby St. Paul jail in response to a grand jury indictment charging him with cocaine smuggling and tax evasion. Last week Ramirez, who says he is in the air-charter business, pleaded not guilty and was released on $200,000 bond-the required 10% of which was raised by a number of townspeople. The indictment...
...individual citizen of the totalitarian state, the story is dismally familiar: the knock on the door in the midnight hours; the squalid jail where you are held for days without charges; the brutal and degrading interrogations; the phony trial; the years in the forced-labor camp or maximum-security cell. If you are very lucky the nightmare ends with release, exile and the solemn duty to bear witness against your oppressors...
Jackson would have done more good if he had come up with a way to get drug traffickers into jail...
...political prisoners. Despite grumbling from Communist Party hardliners, the amnesty bill was passed by the parliament 365 to 4. Only those arrested for treason, spying and sabotage will not be released. Among the freed will be seven leaders of the outlawed Solidarity trade-union movement who have been in jail since December 1981, when martial law was declared. The regime of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski is now spared the embarrassment of continuing the two-week-old trial of four intellectuals accused of conspiring to overthrow the Communist system...