Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judge Harvey Fort of Carlsbad, N.M. announced Saturday that he had sentenced a woman convicted of shooting her husband to student life because it was less expensive to send criminals to college than to jail...
...elderly who commit crimes [Sept. 20] present an increasing problem, particularly in retirement areas like South Florida. As a judge, I have presided over hundreds of cases involving senior citizens charged with shoplifting and other nonviolent crimes. Our criminal justice system, with its traditional solutions of jail, probation or stifffines, is neither appropriate nor effective in dealing with someone who has otherwise been productive and proper for 70 years. To deal with this situation, Fort Lauderdale has instituted a senior intervention program for first offenders that offers guidance, counseling and supervision that permit the individual to maintain dignity...
...genes and our environment control our destinies. The idea of conscious choice is ridiculous. Yes, prisons should be designed to protect society, but they should not punish the poor slobs who were headed for jail from birth...
...horror stories is the saga of Bob Walz, 60, of Tucson, who filled spare tanks in his pickup truck with 250 gal. of diesel fuel in Mexico at 16? a gal. He was arrested at the border for "disrupting the economy of Mexico" and spent five nights in jail...
...monarch. Police did not charge Fagan with a crime for that intrusion, since he had not threatened any harm to the Queen or stolen any possessions. Under British law, trespass without causing actual damage or harming anyone is a civil matter and does not carry the risk of a jail sentence. Fagan was on trial for a burglary only in connection with his earlier, undetected breakin, which he confessed to police after his arrest. Yet to make the Burglary charge stick, the prosecution had to prove that Fagan had entered the palace with the intention of stealing something, a notion...