Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good education." As Wilde arcs over London, he decides that the difference between true love and caprice is that caprice lasts a little longer, and that is his undoing. His infatuation with the unstable "Bosie," son of the Marquess of Queensberry, lands him in court and then in jail, his marriage broken, his reputation ruined. This is the stuff of tragedy, but Wilde will not have it so; the imp of the perverse follows him to the grave. Exiled to Paris, the extravagant drunk regrets that he is dying "the way I lived: beyond my means...
...computer crime, forgery and abuse of public records in a ticket- fixing case. Hoping to reduce his automobile-insurance rates, Brown had asked a motor vehicle bureau employee to delete a pair of speeding tickets from the department's computer system. He was sentenced to five days in jail, fined $2,000, placed on four years' probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service. He also resigned. Thus Brown lost a $73,000-a-year job to save some $400 worth of insurance premiums, a clear signal that, at least for him, computer crime does...
...cost the state, and can house inmates for just over half the usual cost. One way the company proposes to save money is by paying its guards less than what civil service guards make. Critics, however, fear that for-profit prisons have a greater incentive to keep inmates in jail than they do to rehabilitate them...
...fire, which they said was the unintentional result of the last in a series of pranks, brought Harvard police and Cambridge fire officials to McKinlock Hall and landed Caudill and Corcillo briefly in jail...
...security precautions at the Tihar Central Jail in suburban New Delhi were unusually strict last week as heavily armed police guarded a makeshift courtroom for the final hearing of an eight-month trial. Both judge and defendants were protected behind bulletproof glass shields. After taking the bench, Judge Mahesh Chandra wasted no time. The evidence was overwhelming, he said, that the three suspects in the October 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were guilty. Following a brief recess, Chandra declared this to be one of those "rarest of rare" crimes in which the ultimate penalty was clearly called...