Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, is among 93 people who signed an appeal seeking the release from a Nepal jail of B. P. Koirala, former prime minister of Nepal, a spokesman for Social Democrats, USA said testerday...
Koirala, who was prime minister of Nepal from 1959 until a royal takeover in 1960 abolished the constitutional monarchy, spent eight years in a Nepalese jail...
Instead of jail terms or fines. Circuit Court Judge Sam Harrod III, 37. often used to sentence young offenders to haircuts, loss of their drivers' licenses or a day of picking up cans and bottles along the highways. Says the judge, an eleven-year veteran of the bench in rural Woodford County. Ill., "The courts have become the parents of last resort. I was trying to get young people to change their ways before they got sent to prison." But the American Civil Liberties Union complained to the Illinois Courts Commission that his sentences were violating the defendants...
...President Richard Nixon declared an international "war on drugs," then pressed the Mexican government into joining the battle by cracking down on illegal narcotics traffic across the border. Mexico obliged with a vengeance, throwing into jail hundreds of American violators; most of them were "mules," who had been smuggling large amounts of cocaine from South America or marijuana from Mexico. A 13-year sentence-with no chance of parole-was not uncommon for a first offender. "Operation Intercept," as the border crackdown was dubbed, quickly turned into a publicity disaster for Mexico. U.S. prisoners staged hunger strikes to protest medieval...
...perhaps the defendant's position could be sustained. However, here the touching of a woman's buttocks without her consent is not treated so cavalierly as in some environs." Though the defendant has not yet been sentenced, he faces a fine and up to three months in jail...