Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JAIL BAIT How much crack does it take to get sent up for five years? The Senate held hearings in Washington last week about reducing the minimum-mandatory-sentencing (MMS) guidelines to bring the powder-cocaine limit down from 500 g to 50 g--closer to the 5 g of crack that gets you a nickel...
...teenagers used a weapon. If the six who still live in Decatur (the seventh has left the area) don't get back into class fairly soon, they will in all likelihood become permanent dropouts--which, for young black men, often translates into a one-way ticket to jail. They obviously ought to be disciplined for taking part in the fight, but not more severely than the student who threatened to blow up a Decatur high school last summer and was expelled for only a year...
...Army journalism school. Given the difficulty the armed forces are experiencing in recruiting qualified young people these days, we think his experiences and impressions are worth sharing. Here is the third missive; others will be posted as they arrive. On Friday night I dreamed I was in jail.? The fire guard, a few men plucked from our ranks to walk the floors in two-hour shifts, comes through every 15 minutes or so.? Every time I surfaced from sleep to this darting flashlight or that, I couldn't figure out whether I was enlisted or incarcerated...
...home after neighbors complained of loud music at 2:45 a.m., they found him naked, dancing and playing the bongos, all legal activities. But he struggled with police when they tried to handcuff him after spotting what they believed was marijuana paraphernalia. He spent part of the night in jail and paid a $1,000 bond. No drug charges were filed...
...Street Journal editor, she a novelist. Their treasury of more than 400 epistles renders a more definitive portrait of America's past 99 years than would all the centennial books laid decade to decade. Some entries are moving (Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail), some comical (fugitive Clyde Barrow's 1934 note to Henry Ford, praising his "dandy" V8 getaway car). They add up to an exceptional bedside companion...