Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCrackin did more than refuse to show. To protest conditions in the prison, he ignored a subpoena, made a squad of five policemen carry him physically to jail, and began a hunger strike that lasted three weeks and forced his transfer to a hospital for intravenous feeding...
Perhaps it was the hellfire surroundings of the old Roanoke, Va., jail, but for some time now, at the rate of six or eight a year, prisoners there have been seeing "the light" and asking to be baptized. Prison officials were not averse to such rehabilitation. They obligingly took the converts from prison to a nearby church, where the rites were performed...
...trips, however, presented something of a security risk. So when he designed a brand-new $6 million jail for Roanoke, Architect John Marfleet included a baptistry. "We conferred many, many times with the councilmen and the jail study committee to see what religious purposes should be incorporated," says Marfleet, who believes that contemporary jails should try to anticipate every human need...
...final years Einstein was an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, which he felt was an echo of the turbulent events that had preceded the downfall of Germany's Weimar Republic. He urged intellectuals to defy what he considered congressional inquisitions, even at the risk of "jail and economic ruin." He was widely denounced, and Senator Joseph McCarthy called him "an enemy of America." In his last public act, Einstein joined Bertrand Russell and other scholars in a desperate plea for a ban on all warfare...
...punishment, they say. But it is hard to imagine a bureaucratic device that often prevents students from partaking in extracurriculars and that is called "probation" as anything but punishment. Back out in society, probation is what juvenile court gives you before they send you to jail...