Word: jail
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...other suspects, both pulled from the Honda, were also Weather Undergrounders: Judith Clark, 31, and David Gilbert, 37. Clark had served 18 months in jail for the Days of Rage. Living in Manhattan for the past ten years, she has recently been associated with the all-female May 19 Coalition, a group that takes its name from the common birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh and fancies itself as a support team for clandestine black liberation terrrorist organizations. The fourth suspect, Samuel Brown, 41, who was injured in the crash, is an ex-convict with a 23-year...
CRIMINAL JUSTICE, so often little more than a campaign plank for aspiring politicians, has drawn less attention than ever under the conservative revolution. Across the nation, jail populations are swelling, as political rhetoric has stressed the "lock 'em up and throw away the keys" approach. Lower court judges anxious for reappointment by elected officials have stepped up jail terms and bail appraisals. In city halls from New York to San Francisco, local David Stockmans have slashed budgets for prison upkeep and inmate care; criminals after all, don't vote. In the eyes of America's political leaders, as long...
...injuries and whether he was killed by the mattress cover found around his neck. Officer Brown and five colleagues invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify. The family's attorneys relied heavily on Bernard Bradley, 24, the only other prisoner at the jail when Settles arrived. Bradley testified that he had heard Settles moaning and screaming as three officers beat him. Bradley also said he had seen no mattress cover in Settles' cell, a claim backed up more recently by two other men who had been in the same cell earlier that...
...could lock forearms, Reed, 43, turned the contest into a genuine barroom donnybrook, with the brawlers flipping furniture and smashing beer bottles. Handcuffed and manacled, the actor was arrested on charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct. He spent the night at Lamoille County's Hyde Park jail, then had to come up with $4,000 bail. Reed was commanded by the court to keep out of bars for a while, but the judge later modified the ruling, provided that the actor's drinking did not "dimmish his proper lawful behavior...
This year two press laws have been enacted, carrying penalties that include temporary suspension of publication and jail terms of up to three years for newspaper editors who publish information the government thinks is "sensitive." Under these laws, Chamorro's newspaper has been shut down five times. Each time, the young editor has come out swinging as soon as his presses started to roll again...