Word: jail
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...West Bank that has embittered Arabs is the unequal, and sometimes brutal, enforcement of the law, For example, if Jewish settlers protesting against government actions assault Israeli soldiers, they are likely to receive little or no punishment. For a similar offense. Arab students would probably face still jail sentences or sizeable fines. Arab offenders are often verbally abused and in a few cases physically mistreated by their Israeli jailers...
...fighting to overthrow the Somoza regime in his native Nicaragua. He denied, however, ever having been to Cuba or Ethiopia and said that he had been coerced into that lie by U.S. officials after his capture by Salvadoran National Guardsmen last year. Describing brutal torture in a Salvadoran government jail, he said that U.S. Embassy representatives offered him a simple choice: "They gave me an option. They said I could come here or face certain death. All my previous statements about training in Ethiopia and Cuba were false." He added that he continued to lie to American officials until just...
Members of the citizen's group that has led opposition to the jail said yesterday they have not given up and are still hoping to keep the jail unoccupied. Frank Buttrick-president of the East Cambridge Citizen's Planning Team, said their plans are uncertain but that they definitely want the city to appeal Albert's decision...
Contending that the jail is a danger to public safety. Cambridge residents and officials have been batting for two years to keep long-term prisoners out of the jail Middlesex County Sheriff's Department officials last month began housing overnight prisoners there for the first time since the jail's completion in 1974 after nearby jails became over crowded...
Cambridge resident Peter A. Vellucci said yesterday he fears state officials will begin bringing in more dangerous convicts, rather than allowing county officials to house only county prisoners, who have been convicted of less severe crimes, in the jail. But a spokesman for the state corrections commission said yesterday there are no plans to move state prisoners to the Cambridge facility...