Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Calvi and several colleagues were indicted for illegally exporting $26.4 million in capital from Italy during 1975 and 1976. Calvi was found guilty in July 1981, fined a total of $11.7 million and sentenced to four years in jail. He was released pending appeal...
Even as he appealed his four-year jail sentence this summer, Calvi continued to try to make new deals and extricate himself from the hole he had dug. Barely a month after his conviction, in fact, he asked the I.O.R.'s aid as he sought ways to help pay off the outstanding loans made by his shell companies. Though he had been convicted of a financial crime, Calvi was still made welcome at the Vatican bank and other banks. Marcinkus' defense is that he was newly reconfirmed as president of Banco Ambrosiano, and the bank's balance...
...supposed to be part of the New World's promised land. The first American prisons would not merely punish inmates, but transform them from idlers and hooligans into good, industrious citizens. In 1790 a group of Philadelphia Quakers, brimming with revolutionary optimism, began the experiment in a renovated downtown jail. They were bent on "such degrees and modes of punishment . . . as may . . . become the means of restoring our fellow creatures to virtue and happiness." No other country was so seduced for so long by that ambitious charter. The language, ever malleable, conformed to the ideal: when a monkish salvation...
...during the next few weeks will probably edge over 400,000, not quite half black, about 4% women. At the current rate of growth the number of inmates would double again by 1988. Today more than one out of every 600 Americans is in prison?not jail or reform school, but prison. Only the Soviet Union and South Africa have a higher percentage locked...
Several weeks ago, Government lawyers told Richmond of the evidence against him; after negotiating, he struck his deal. Richmond, who will be sentenced in November, faces maximum penalties of seven years in jail and a $20,000 fine...