Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan criminal court, some prisoners shouted protests against the heat and overcrowding. To handle the overflow, the city reopened the Tombs, a Manhattan jail that had been closed by federal court order in 1974 as too decrepit. Feeding the prisoners was a serious problem at first because most restaurants had closed for lack of electricity. Many families brought food to relatives behind bars. Others subsisted on coffee and rolls...
...lady did not go to jail. Judge Murray ordered her to work six hours each week in a Boston hospital for six months. The bank gets the boat, the mobile home-and the problem of how to suppress feelings of entitlement among any other aggrieved employees...
...prisoner-of-war camp, I saw my guide give three packs of cigarettes to a prisoner. Why? "He was my guard when they had me in jail," Seyoum said. "When he saw me just now, he tried to hide, he thought I would kill him." I said to Seyoum, "You have come full circle now that they're your prisoners." "Almost," he said. "First we have to set them free. Then it will be full circle...
...Cohn, the onetime investigator for Communist-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy. "1 know he is controversial," says Adela. "but he treats me like a human being." On 70 charges of second-degree larceny in the New York indictment alone, she could be sentenced to a total of 490 years in jail, not counting the additional decades that might be added for other state charges. The total would make Adela the longest running Broadway play ever...
Died. Alice Paul, 92, longtime crusader for women's rights and shaper of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution; in Moorestown, N.J. After successfully lobbying for the adoption of the Woman Suffrage Amendment-she was thrown into jail in 1917 for leading a parade of bloomer-clad suffragists in front of the White House-Paul in 1923 helped draft a prototype of the current Equal Rights Amendment and spent more than 50 years pressing for its ratification...