Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Lemmon, on his way back to the United States at the end of the movie, warns the U S officials in Chile, "I just thank God we still live in a country where people like you can still be put in jail," we detect more than a note of irony. And we wonder what it is that protects our precious rights, that puts gasoline in our tanks and food in our cupboards. To what extent do things that make our lives pleasant rely upon making others 'lives unpleasant? It is a question that we all, liberal and conservative alike...
Brown is being held without bail at the Suffolk county jail at the request of the Middlesex county judge who arraigned him, Robert Rufo, a Suffolk county sheriff, said yesterday. Brown was probably incarcerated in the Suffolk jail to prevent him from communicating with his co-defendant, Roach, who is being held without bail in Billerica Rufo added...
...never know exactly why holding people up was, for him, the most palatable money-making alternative. But I'm pretty sure of this: that threatening him with longer, swifter or more certain jail sentences wouldn't make it easier for him to find work. They'd hardly assuage his frustration with "the system"--more likely, those conservative panaceas would only aggravate him more. Only steps that strike at the root of the problem, that try to give the rational criminal real alternative to crime, seem to make sense...
Nowadays Rumanian citizens must contend with food shortages, long lines in shops and a sliding economy that the country's President, Nicolae Ceauşescu, seems ill equipped to reverse. Ceauşescu has vowed, among other gestures, to jail anyone feeding bread to animals...
Peter Vellucci, a member of the East Cambridge Citizen's Planning Team, which is leading opposition to the jail, said his group plans to meet tonight to discuss strategies for keeping the jail unoccupied...