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Word: jail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honed in on Rugo and told him he was under arrest. He received no response when he asked what the charges were against him. "The police swung furiously, and I swung back," he says, adding that his flying punches landed him in the paddy wagon on his way to jail...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Looking Back 35 Years: The 'Possum Caused a Riot | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...federal level, there has been about a 36% increase in pretrial detainees since the act was passed, from a daily average of 5,383 in 1984 to 7,328 last year, or about one-seventh of those in federal lockup. "It puts a burden on us to find jail space," says Georgia U.S. Marshal Lynn Duncan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: First The Sentence, Then the Trial | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...sacked by Falwell for mismanagement, would remain in charge. Subsequently, Falwell "betrayed" him, said Bakker, who added, "I mean, I sit back and I say, 'Dear God, how could we have our ministry stolen from us?' " Bakker said if PTL were a secular business, Falwell would be sent to jail for taking over "under false pretenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of God and Greed | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

Though he has paid his legal debt to society, Lawrence Singleton spends his days in a vortex of unmade restitution. A convicted rapist who hacked off the forearms of his 15-year-old hitchhiker victim, Singleton, 59, was paroled from a California jail last month after serving nearly eight years of a 14-year four-month sentence. But Singleton, a model prisoner who maintains his innocence, immediately found himself to be a pariah, staying in a string of motels as authorities tried in vain in California, Florida and Nevada to find a welcoming town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not In My Town: No one wants a paroled rapist | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...Heloise. This in spite of much duly reported bar- and restaurant-hopping and a brush with the law after finding himself lost in a deserted shopping mall: "He told me to give him my license and sit down and shut up or he'd throw my ass in jail for public intoxication. I told him I hadn't seen much else but public intoxication in San Antonio that night, and his handcuffs made a cricketlike sound as he took them off his belt. I gave him my license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lallygagging Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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