Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take heart in a new movement to "recriminalize" marijuana in California. Currently, the fine for possessing an ounce of marijuana is $100, payable by mail. A nine-member state commission appointed by state Attorney General John Van de Kamp has recommended legislation to impose steep fines and jail sentences for the possession, cultivation or sale of marijuana, no matter how small the amount. Even if legislatures do not increase the penalties for pot, its devotees should beware. Warns New York City Attorney Gerald Lefcourt: "That doesn't mean the police won't still make the arrests...
...increased public scrutiny of the Cambridge Police Department continued yesterday when officials inspected a city jail that had come under fire for its allegedly bad living conditions...
...started firing. Ruotolo was killed, and two other officers were wounded. When he was arrested hours later, the accused assailant, George Accosta, 24, turned out to be on parole from a manslaughter conviction; that parole had not been revoked despite a subsequent conviction and a three-month jail term for criminal mischief. The raw brutality of the unprovoked killing, and shrieking headlines in the city's two tabloids stirred many New Yorkers last week to call for an end to a parole system that they think frees dangerous offenders haphazardly...
Then too his character must be reckoned into the burgeoning myth. Morley's reputation as the last wild man of the art world grows and grows. Stories about him proliferate and are often true: a jail sentence in Wormwood Scrubs as a young man, the rages in the broken-up studio, the destruction of work. One German collector gave Morley $40,000 for a painting and was nonplused to see the artist slash his canvas to ribbons before handing the check back. Such gestures establish a profile. But it is the work that matters...
...clanking against truth tells something about them. A slick Florida lawyer has been shot to death and left to ruin the upholstery of his fancy car. A feud among Mexican Americans in Riverside, Calif., feeds on itself so long and so bloodily that one participant admits being in jail is a relief. Three acquaintances booze away the afternoon in a country bar in Iowa, and a few hours later one of them has been shotgunned out of this life...