Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population is "being forced to build socialism," and notes that if you take two per cent as a reasonable figure for those who undergo "reform through labor" alone, this translates into about 16 million people. According to Pasqualini, no one who defies the government can stay out of jail, but there aren't any firm statistics by which to judge. After all, it's troublesome for any country to come to grips with the problem of criminal behavior, no matter how it's defined; and nearly twenty years after a revolution, it is embarrassing, at least, to admit and attempt...
...payoffs, unpunished clients and selectively-enforced laws--not to mention society's censure. Not only does the criminalization of prostitution destroy a hooker's respect for herself; it also erodes respect for the law and for the hypocritical law-enforcing or law-escaping individuals who denounce the prostitute and jail her--while continuing to exploit her financially and physically...
Released after more than two hours, he later entered a hospital suffering what friends called "a nervous breakdown." Apparently unmoved, the police filed charges that could bring him a maximum of $595,000 in fines or two years in jail...
...Hearsts visit Patty three or four times a week, and friends say their encounters-strained and formal at first-have warmed considerably. Patty's lawyers report she was scared and aloof when she arrived at San Mateo County jail, 25 miles from the courthouse, but Sheriff John McDonald Jr. says she fell quickly into the prison's routine. "Her attitude hasn't changed," says McDonald. "She's still calm, cool and collected." She has also been suffering from menstrual problems, eats only lightly, and has dropped from...
...their criminal and revolutionary activities. As the jury selection proceeded, mostly behind closed doors, some 100 reporters representing publications and broadcasting stations throughout the world milled around outside the court and enlarged on trivia: the court had approved Patty's request to have her long hair trimmed in jail; someone had sent her an application for an American Express credit card, suggesting that she could "buy gifts, send flowers, cable money, host a dinner, even if you can't be there...