Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed to lose weight as he stood before the bar. Finally he got down his coughdrop, smiled weakly at his attorneys, Michael Ahern & Albert Fink. Up stepped Messrs. Ahern & Fink, pleaded for leniency. Said the Judge: "I think I will adhere to my ruling." Then he ordered Capone to jail. Sighed Snorkey: "Well, pal, I'm going on a long journey...
...After 17 years of New York's Attica State Prison (and a lifetime total of more than 35 years in jail), Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, a tired, sick old man of 68, was ready with some wistful reminiscing. "People don't seem to want to work hard for anything any more," said Willie. "Years ago, cons used to approach me in various prison yards and ask me to lay out a bank job for them. But not lately. These young kids don't believe in hard work." Though Sutton's own hard work may have netted...
Jack Greenberg tank $15 from a post office; lust May in Federal Court in Mushuttan he drew six months in jail. Howard Laxell 'misapplied' $150,000 from a bank; in the same month in the same courthouse he drew probation...
Reiman points out that in 1972, nearly half of all jail inmates had pre-arrest incomes of less than $2000, in federal prisons in 1970, almost 60 percent made less than $2000 the year before. And yet a President's Crime Commission has estimated that "91 percent of all Americans have violated laws that could have subjected them to a term of imprisonment at one time in their lives." What about the other crooks...
Current penalties for driving while intoxicated range from a $100 fine and one-year license suspension for a first offense, to a 60-day mandatory jail term and five-year license suspension for a third and subsequent convictions...