Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, the people in operations -mostly veterans of the early days of the cold war-feel that the agency is being unfairly attacked for carrying out orders emanating from the White House. Asks one oldtimer: "Do you mean to tell us you're going to send us to jail for doing our patriotic duty...
...real test comes if any individual group were to press [for more than the pay limit]. This would have to be a test case. But the government are determined to stand absolutely firm. We are backing the pay limit with some legislation, not designed to send people to jail, but, for example, to tighten up the amount of money available [to finance excessive settlements]. What we propose is reserve powers against maverick or rogue employers, not against workers, but we shall go to great lengths to avoid having to invoke them. The Trades Union Congress accepted these powers with great...
...tension stems from conflicting theories of why Joan (5 ft. 3 in., 120 lbs.) stabbed Jailer Clarence Alligood (5 ft. 8 in., 200 lbs.) eleven times with an ice pick in the Beaufort County jail in Washington, N.C. (pop. 9,000), on Aug. 27, 1974. Joan, her lawyers and a spontaneous coalition of feminists, civil rights and prison-reform advocates insist that she was defending herself against rape by her 62-year-old white jailkeeper. To them, this is a classic example of the way rape victims can be railroaded by male-dominated legal systems, and of how black women...
...Jerome and charged with stealing $850 worth of property from two mobile homes. Jerome turned state's evidence and got a three-year sentence; Joan later admitted her guilt but still received a stiff seven to ten years in prison. She had spent 81 days in the Beaufort jail, awaiting transfer to a women's correctional institution, when the killing occurred...
...trial. She claims she successfully fought off the attack. The county medical examiner reported finding what appeared to him to be semen on Alligood's thigh-an inconclusive point, certain to be argued. Joan could not be examined for evidence of rape because she ran out of the jail after the killing, surrendering eight days later with her lawyer...