Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company had invited some 600 members of the financial community to share in the unique feeling of being an illegal insider trader. Or almost. The guests were transported by boat to Alcatraz, the inactive island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. There, while 25 actors dressed as convicts and jail guards capered around them, the temporary inmates supped on roast quail with lime sauce and admired the concrete and steel-bar decor. Estimated cost of the bash: about $100,000. To many, that seemed like something of a crime itself...
...city manager system was implemented right after the second world war, when we had the mayor in jail and the city was in debt," said panel member Barbara Ackermann, former Cambridge mayor and current chairman of the Cambridge Health Policy Board...
...York City, where AIDS is a far more serious problem, last week decided to try a similar approach. Condoms will be made available to some 90 homosexual inmates who are housed in a special wing of Rikers Island jail. If the three-month trial is successful, the program may be expanded to the rest of the city's 14,600 prisoners. About half of them have taken drugs by injection and may have used contaminated needles...
...last week a young motorcyclist roared down city streets. "You can't do anything to me, man," the motorcyclist taunted the local constable who told him to pull over. "You've lost your authority." But the law dies hard in Texas: the truculent youth was promptly packed off to jail in Galveston...
Others are especially surprised by this act of vengeance because Buettner-Janusch had seemed fairly content since leaving jail. He planned to get back into academic life and mentioned his hopes for new research projects. The big talk, however, served only to cover his disappointments...