Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There may be radio listeners who think all disk jockeys ought to be in jail. But in Angola, La., two DJs have started their careers behind bars. Big Brother Amin and the Duke of L.A., who broadcast five days a week from Station KLSP, are both armed-robbery convicts. Their target audience is also captive: the 4,645 inmates of Angola's 18,000-acre prison farm. The call letters for KLSP stand for Louisiana State Penitentiary, the "incarceration station" that is the only prisoner-run radio...
Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus, pardoned from a 30-year jail term in Nicaragua and carrying the key to his cell, returned to the United States yesterday, thanking God that "I was able to be free and be with my family" for Christmas...
...SAME DAY the anti-racism law was passed, the Parliament approved another controversial law. Israeli citizens who have contacts with groups the government dislikes are now liable for prosecution and risk up to seven years in jail. Only certain forms of press conferences and international meetings are allowed to take place...
...bill increases the minimum jail termfor second offenders from seven to 14 days andproposes a 6-month mandatory jail term for drunkdrivers who cause serious bodily injury. No suchprovision currently exists, said Calia...
...because I would either beat them up or 'smoke' them if I didn't like what they said." A member of one of Los Angeles' biggest black street-gang networks since he was ten, Cole has served time for robbery and cocaine dealing. Now he is back in jail after being sentenced last May to serve six years for assault with a deadly weapon. "Death is a part of living," says he. "The only thing I can do is strap two .44s on my chest, keep an Uzi under the seat and a .45 in my hand. If they...