Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operate prisons containing 100,000 new beds will cost taxpayers a total of $70 billion over the next 30 years, in addition to the more than $6 billion it costs annually to run the existing system. The construction bill alone is enormous: about $4.7 billion in prison and jail construction is planned across the country over the coming decade, including $1.2 billion for 16,500 new cells in California and $700 million for 8,800 in New York...
...nation's tough mood toward offenders has also been felt in local jails, most notably in New York City, where the population of inmates awaiting trial and sentencing had increased from 7,500 on an average day in 1980 to well over 10,000 by October of this year. This was despite several federal court orders, going back three years, establishing minimum standards for living conditions and setting limits on the jail population. U.S. District...
Judge Morris Lasker reached the end of his patience and on Oct. 31 ordered the city to find some way to remove at least 341 inmates from the jails immediately. The city then proceeded to release 610 inmates, many with long criminal records. A political furor resulted when one was rearrested within two days on a charge of rape. The October reopening of the renovated Manhattan House of Detention, better known as the Tombs, will not help much, because officials plan to limit its population to one prisoner for each of its relatively luxurious 421 cells. Judge Lasker closed...
...graduates. Billed as "a day-by-day history of the increasing erosion of civil liberties in the U.S.," it measures 17 in. by 34 in. and features black-and-white photographs of U.S. Government buildings (the IRS, FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and of police riot squads and jail cells. Each date is annotated with one or more reminders, trivial as well as grim, of the loss of freedom; few may recall that on Aug. 1, 1973, the Washington Post reported a private investigation launched by the Nixon White House on the Smothers brothers. Can Doublethink T shirts...
...fool. This year millions of dollars will be bet on the Super Bowl and major college bowl games; whenever there is that kind of money at stake people are going to be tempted to protect their investment. Last year two former Boston College basketball players were sent to jail for fixing games. If gamblers could buy a couple of nobodies on an insignificant team, they could do it on a game that really meant something. It is possible, for instance, that Super Bowl III was fixed to give the pro football merger credibility, though the allegations will never be proven...