Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ferguson and Wilson now face a $100 fine and up to a year in jail. But college students, for many of whom a care package is the vital link with home, can imagine a more fitting punishment for their crime: the ignominious court-postal. The U.S. Postal Service patches are ripped off the shoulders of the sweaters of the disgraced pair. Their scales and scotch-tape dispensers are smashed, and they are demoted to forever sorting mail without zip codes in the Dead Letter Office. The wretches fall to their knees and beg for lenience, but their judges are firm...
...home is supposed to be his castle. But his dungeon? Beginning this week, ten Albuquerque lawbreakers, instead of being sentenced to jail or to a toothless probation, are obliged to stay home every night. No police sentries are stationed outside, families are not required to snitch. Rather, confinement is enforced by remote control. Strapped to the ankle of each offender (mainly drunk drivers, all nonviolent adults on work-release) is a transmitter tuned in to a device on the home telephone. The phone in turn is connected to a computer downtown. It will monitor whether the electronically shack led prisoner...
...novel Albuquerque pilot program is the doing of a local judge. Says District Attorney Steven Schiff: "It ought to make everybody happy. Like a jail term, it keeps these people inside so they don't drive drunk." The operating cost of the contraption, $70 a month, will be paid by each plugged-in prisoner. Says Goss: "I think most people would pay to stay out of jail...
...general assistance last fall. After being told to go to Bannon Street instead, he filed a lawsuit with the aid of two legal-services groups, charging that the new policy discriminates against single citizens and violates the constitutional rights to privacy and freedom to travel. "It's a jail," says Robbins. "You can't live like you want to live. You can't watch TV all night if you want...
...York City Deputy Police Commissioner Kenneth Conboy claims that the rule does not deter much official misconduct. If evidence is discarded at trial, he says, "most officers don't care. You know why? Because the guy rarely goes to jail anyway." Besides, police have no certainty that their best efforts will stand up. "You're talking about sophisticated, subtle distinctions," notes Conboy. "It takes judges months to reach decisions. Police have to make them instantaneously, in alleys, with guns and knives around...