Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daughter Joanie Worrell is a housewife who raises quarter horses and thoroughbreds with her husband. She is also a volunteer in a Houston hospital. Daughter Claire Draper is a housewife who works with a church group to improve conditions in a Houston jail. Joe Jaworski is married...
...result of the courtroom delay, Wayne County Jail, built to house 1,100 prisoners, was packed with 1,500. One recorder's courtroom held an infamous bullpen into which each morning 30 to 40 wretched drunks were herded, prodded before the judge and out again to jail or the streets. The black community, which was soon to top 50% of Detroit's population, supplied most of the defendants, and black leaders often complained that Recorder's Court justice was far from colorblind...
Court practices have changed radically. Drunks are no longer run through the mill at a one-a-minute rate but are given a choice between standing trial with a jail term possible and going to a detoxification center. This program has eliminated about 75% of alcoholic recidivism. No longer are suspects held as long as three days for investigation; each afternoon the police must give a precinct-by-precinct report on the disposition of suspects. Arraignments now usually come within 24 hours, a trial date is set within five or six days, and trial begins in 60 to 90 days...
...beaten by the police, Del Rio calls the policeman a liar, and dismisses the case." Gary Lee, the association's president, declares: "The police know they are wasting their time at that court. The streets are loaded with people that any decent judicial system would have in jail...
...police at once surrounded the hotel. They discovered that the Russian name spelled backward came out in Czech as "Kiss my arse." Blandly Hašek explained that he just wanted to see if the Austrian police were on their toes-and got off with five days in jail...