Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheriff, "but we don't like outsiders telling us who we do like and who we don't." Vo still works as a scraphog under Le's supervision. "I've been in the U.S. for six years, and the first time I came to Hawthorne they put me in jail," says a bewildered Vo. "They have a bad feeling about Vietnamese people here...
...good news: criminals are going to jail in record numbers. The bad news: the prisons are already full. So concludes the Justice Department, which last week reported that as of December 1985, 503,601 people are now behind bars, 53% more than were incarcerated in 1980. Mandatory sentencing laws have prompted the increase, says a Justice Department expert. But this swelling tide has filled many U.S. prisons beyond capacity. Last year the lack of available cells forced corrections officials in 19 states to grant 18,617 prisoners early release...
...unpopular guy at the far end of the study hall. If Go-Getting Teenager Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) got "in trouble" with a debutante or chorus girl, it wouldn't be that kind of trouble--just the yelp of puppy love. And it wouldn't end in jail or a shotgun marriage but with a sympathetic lecture from his omniscient father Judge Hardy. The teen landscape on '40s movie screens was like Eden without the apple...
...however, the new leader may mostly be a victim of her single great achievement: returning political freedom to the Philippines. It was Aquino, after all, who released Sison from jail, along with some 500 other political prisoners. She also permitted Marcos loyalists to protest her rule for three straight weeks in the streets of Manila. And she has actively encouraged the open questioning that Marcos so forcefully muzzled. "Less than 100 days is not enough time for a government to produce an impact," says Businessman Leonardo Alejandrino, "especially a government that almost by its own admission was not ready...
Genet spent most of his 20s in jail on charges of theft, prostitution and related crimes. There, on strips of brown wrapping paper, he composed a long poem about a homosexual murderer, then a novel about a male prostitute, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943). Scandalized, the eminent critic Paul Valery declared, "This must be burned." Others strongly disagreed. In 1948, when Genet faced a life term as a repeat offender, Sartre, Andre Gide, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau and other literati circulated a petition protesting the sentence. It won Genet a presidential pardon...