Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug lords have responded to the narcotics crackdown in a particularly devastating manner. To avoid the harsh jail sentences mandated by new federal and state laws, kingpins are using teenagers to distribute drugs on the streets...
When four French officials and 17 sailors set off two weeks ago into rough Newfoundland seas aboard the trawler Croix de Lorraine, they hooked some trouble. The crew was arrested for illegally fishing in Canadian waters, and clapped in jail for 48 hours. Last week Paris recalled its Ambassador to Canada for "consultations," and passport and customs officials delayed Canadian visitors for hours at French airports...
...course, Nixon resigned before he could be impeached and President Ford pardoned him before formal criminal charges could be brought. Had Nixon gone to trial, he very likely would have gone to jail, the first President ever to be found guilty of criminal activity...
...sweeping arrests only aggravate another Los Angeles problem: overcrowded jails. The county prison system, designed to hold 12,800, now houses 22,600 inmates. Gates' combined antigang task forces have arrested more than 1,100 gang members in the past five weeks, an impressive performance that is marred by the fact that the county sheriff was forced to give early release to 1,200 prisoners in order to make room for the newcomers. "We have $500 million in jail construction in progress," says James Painter, who, as chief of the Los Angeles sheriff's custody division, oversees a jail system...
...that a jury would return a guilty verdict. Three of the suspects lead Hitlerite hate groups and claim that the Government is under "Zionist occupation." Nine of the defendants were charged with conspiracy, and five were accused of planning to murder federal officials. Six of the 13 were in jail for other crimes, including two found guilty of murdering Alan Berg, a Denver radio-show host...