Word: jailings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...backward and consider themselves the "conscience of the nation." $1,000,000 Damages. As the battle for Shinjuku station wore on through the night, the Public Safety Commission held an emergency session and ordered the imposition of the antiriot law, which provides penalties of up to ten years in jail. Previously, rioters had been charged only with misdemeanors, which are punishable by small fines. By 2 a.m., the riot police had cleared the station and the square. They could tot up damages of close to $1,000,000, with 140 persons hospitalized, including 61 police, and over 700 in jail...
...Hungarian court yesterday sentenced Henrietta Blueye '70 to six months in jail...
...maximum penalty on the charge of "assisting in an attempt at a prohibted border crossing" is five years in prison. The Associated Press reported that the two and a half months Miss Blueye has spent in jail while awaiting trial would be counted as part of her sentence...
...planned to meet at 7 a.m., elect new officers and melt away, but neighboring peasants tipped off police. Breezing past a warning shot fired by a student sentinel, São Paulo cops rounded up all 739, carted them off in trucks and Jeeps and slapped them into jail. After questioning, most of the students were released and sent back home, but activist leaders of the movement were detained and will be indicted under "the law of national security...
...sentence startled me: "Certainly, police should not be responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests." I am wondering what you propose to do with the drunks? Leave them lie to be rolled by other nighttime characters? Leave them lie to become sick? Leave them lie as an unsightly and disgusting sight for sober citizens? I realize that my thinking (based on over twenty years as a Village Justice) is not on all fours with the current thinking on how to cure alcoholism. Perhaps it is a disease but I have "dried out" many an alcoholic with...