Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connecticut, the department of correction is experimentally using two National Guard barracks as a temporary jail for drunken drivers. In Missouri and Oregon, prison authorities have renovated mental hospitals to house convicted felons. In New Jersey, where inmates have been sleeping in gymnasiums, classrooms and a chapel, officials are considering buying a World War II Navy troopship to use as a prison. Meanwhile, New York City is readying a second decommissioned Staten Island ferryboat to moor alongside the Vernon C. Bain, which has housed up to 162 prisoners on the East River since March...
...other hand, Reagan has a strong sense of loyalty to those who work for him, and he would be discomfited by the fact that officials who had sought to pursue his policies were languishing in jail. The public seems to agree. According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll last week, 61% of Americans believe that Reagan should absolve North before he can be prosecuted and 46% favored a pre-emptive pardon for Poindexter...
...Iranscam committee: "I oppose any presidential pardon until the gates of the prison are about to clang shut." And if Poindexter and North are convicted? "If I were President and they had been % found guilty," says Hyde, "I wouldn't want to leave office with them in jail...
...contracts are more inviolable than a reporter's pledge of confidentiality. Some journalists have even been willing to go to jail to protect that principle. But are there occasions when public interest demands that a news organization disclose the name of a confidential source...
...Valenzuela family struggles in the fruit fields, in rides Ritchie's brother Bob (Esai Morales) on his motorcycle fresh from a stint in jail. Bob seems determined to prove that he is an early-day version of Prince in Purple Rain. He is the bad son. Ritchie, of course, is the golden...