Word: jailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phoebe Meryll (Anna Blair '98) loves Colonel Fairfax (Joel Derfner '95), but he's in jail and is about to get the ax. Luckily, the head jailer Wilfred Shadbolt (Martin Lebwohl '96) loves Phoebe. With the help of her father, Sergeant Meryll (Bob Grady), and her sparkling eyes and sparkling other things, Phoebe swipes the cell key from Shadbolt. But, thinking he'll be executed soon. Fairfax suddenly decides to marry someone, anyone, in order to prevent his estate from going to a greedy and conniving relative. Sergeant Meryll sets Fairfax free and orchestrates a totally unbelievable switcheroo which involves...
...Justice Minister. She boldly marched up to the plane's first-class section and engaged the Justice Minister in conversation. The following day Coetsee paid an impromptu, unannounced visit to the world's most famous political prisoner. Mandela, dressed only in his hospital gown, greeted Coetsee not as his jailer-which he technically was-but as if he were a dear old colleague. Coetsee recalls that he saw in Mandela the ancient Roman virtues of "dignitas, gravitas, honestas, simplicitas," and wondered whether white South Africa's Public Enemy No. 1 was in fact the man who might someday unite...
...Over the years we've housed Sirhan-Sirhan, the Manson family, major organized-crime figures, the individuals involved in the Reginald Denny case and numerous other people with celebrity status," says Sheriff Sherman Block, Simpson's chief jailer, "but I've never seen anything like this. Behind the courthouse this morning I couldn't believe what I saw in the way of electronic-media equipment. You could probably cook a huge steak with all the microwaves there -- or become sterile...
...disturbing truth is that although three decades of lock-'em-up fever have made America the world's No. 1 jailer, there still aren't nearly enough cells to go around. The '80s zeal for harsh drug penalties has pushed the U.S. incarceration rate to 455 per 100,000 citizens and has run up an unprecedented annual tab of $21 billion for the construction of prisons and maintenance of inmates. As the nation's inmate population swells toward 1.4 million, prison officials must release career criminals to make room for first-time drug offenders. The growing public outcry against violent...
...that doctors should be allowed to help, has attended 19 suicides in the past three years. Now he was threatening to starve himself to death. Wearing green prison coveralls in a 10-ft. by 10- ft. isolation cell, he was refusing meals and drinking only water. His jailer, Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano, said Kevorkian would be watched closely and, if necessary as a last resort, the state would get a court order to authorize forced feeding. "Are we going to let Mr. Kevorkian die in our custody? No," he assured reporters...