Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shouting insults and threatening customers at the Club 21, located in a Mexican-American community on Houston's east side. Wearing Army fatigues and combat boots, Torres appeared drunk but apparently healthy when police officers took him away. A few hours later, when the police brought him to jail, he was so badly bruised that duty officers refused to book him. They told the arresting officers to take Torres to Ben Taub General Hospital for treatment. Instead, six policemen drove him one mile to an area known as "the Hole," behind a large warehouse facing the muddy Buffalo Bayou...
...probably was tangling with Chief Hongisto, whom he hired last December over the misgivings of Cleveland's conservative, 2,000-man police force. Hongisto, a liberal and former San Francisco county sheriff, is a staunch defender of gay rights and won national fame last year by going to jail rather than enforce a court order to evict elderly residents from a hotel. Hongisto quickly won the respect of his force by personally patrolling Cleveland's streets, making arrests and enlisting support for the police from citizens' groups...
Hughes could not meet the $50,000 bail and is being held in the Charles Street jail awaiting his trial, scheduled for April...
...Ohio district court judge Friday charged three men with contempt and sentenced them to five days in jail for refusing to pay fines stemming from their involvement in demonstration on the Kent State campus last summer...
Seven of the 197 demonstrators arrested for refusing to leave pleaded not guilty in July and were found guilty in a trial Friday. When the three men refused to pay a fine the judge sentenced them to jail for contempt of court...