Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Justice Stewart's statement still holds: "...any poor wretch in any dirty jail in this country can know that he can at least petition the Supreme Court...not some mini-Court that is going to bureaucratize it...The great thing about our Court is that it's not a bureaucracy...not just nine policy makers riding around in Cadillacs." To gain its place in history, the Freund Committee will have to prove that a transfer of responsibility in the Federal judicial system will not isolate the Supreme Court from those submerged in prisons who presently expect that, if only...
DeLuca was one of two officers who last October arrested Lawrence P. Largey, age 17, hours before Largey died in a Cambridge jail cell...
...Pardon you for what? You aren't in jail...
Heisman Trophy Winner Johnny Rodgers, a three-time All-America at Nebraska, also happens to be the Peck's Bad Boy of the Cornhuskers. The fleet-footed running back was sentenced to 30 days in a Lincoln, Neb., jail for driving with a suspended license. Rodgers' lawyer had attempted to get him a work release program at Boys Town, the school near Omaha for orphans and other underprivileged youngsters. But the director, Monsignor Nicholas H. Wegner, seemed to think they had no room for big bad boys. "We don't want him," he said...
...Shortly after Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law last September, American Jesuit Vincent Cullen was clapped into jail. The reason: Cullen was a social action director on the island of Mindanao, where his labors on behalf of minorities and poor farmers in a land dispute provoked the wrath of local officials. Now Cullen has been released, but is under the custody of the Philippines provincial. While Cullen chafes, a fellow Jesuit, Father James Donelan, regularly offers Mass at Marcos' Malacanang Palace, and other Jesuits have given retreats for the President...