Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ilana, 40. The couple was arrested after making a series of calls between Hackensack and Israel. Making such a call from a malfunctioning phone is considered to be a deliberate defrauding of the phone company. Moked is charged with theft of services, punishable by up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. Are officials at the Israeli consulate embarrassed by the episode? "To say the least," says Consul General Moshe Yegar...
...Benazir Bhutto and the P.P.P. are able to mount large and fervent demonstrations against Zia, the Pakistani establishment is going to feel the pressure. In the nearly five years Bhutto remained in the country following her father's execution, Zia responded to her challenges by simply throwing her in jail or placing her under house arrest. This time the President is clearly trying to avoid resorting to such authoritarian measures. "I will rule this country from my grave," predicted the charismatic Zulfikar Ali Bhutto before going to the gallows. Last week, at least, his daughter seemed determined to prove...
...Charles. How are you?" The drinker reached for his revolver, and his interlocutor fell upon him and announced his arrest. Thus did Inspector Madhukar Zende, an ace Bombay detective, seize Charles Sobhraj, the international criminal who three weeks earlier had escaped from New Delhi's maximum-security Tihar Central Jail by slipping his guards drugged candies during a mock birthday party...
...other purpose was punishment, but this too has been eroded. Short terms in jail are a message to the convicted murderer that if he gets caught, society will only slap him on the wrist and let him back on the streets...
Through no fault of Harrington's, Portland's criminals are often returned to the streets soon after conviction because the city's jails are too full to house them. For four years in a row Portland voters have refused to approve funds for more cells. Due to overcrowding, some 7,500 offenders were given citations last year instead of jail sentences. "It's insane," protested Harrington. "We're recycling the same criminals over and over again...