Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Georgia, one of 42 states where prisons are under court order to reduce overcrowding, correctional officials resort to a kind of risky triage, releasing less dangerous inmates to make room for muggers, rapists and other violent criminals. Sometimes their judgment goes awry. Ronnie Fisher was sprung from Fulton County Jail last month while awaiting trial on car-theft and drug charges. Barely an hour after he was set free, police caught him apparently trying to rob a man on an Atlanta street. Georgia still plans to release 3,000 inmates by July...
...more than 100,000 prisoners have been freed in the past year before completing their terms. In Oregon, whose prisons are bulging with 5,000 convicts jammed into cells designed for 3,000, one inmate is released for each new one taken in. At Chicago's Cook County jail, many prisoners bed down on floors and in hallways. Says William Currie, spokesman for the Cook County sheriff's department: "The whole criminal-justice system is like sausage in a sausage machine. Somehow everything's gotten stuck...
...Pamela Rae Stewart spent a week in a San Diego jail in 1986 on charges that she had failed to provide for her baby by defying her doctor's advice to stop using street drugs during pregnancy. Stewart's child was born brain damaged and died six weeks later. The charges were eventually dropped...
...contras; on nine counts of lying to and obstructing congressional investigating committees; in Washington. Each charge upon conviction carries a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment and $250,000 in fines. Secord was convicted in a Virginia court of drunk driving. He was given a suspended 30-day jail sentence and ordered to pay a $200 fine...
...training from Panama Defense Force instructors, including practice in shooting and hand-to-hand combat. Authorities claim that recruits, who are promised a gun and modest stipend, come mainly from lower middle-class and rural backgrounds. But government critics contend that the squads include convicted criminals released early from jail in exchange for signing up. Members of the Panama Defense Force also reportedly belong; opposition politicians say they have photographs of one man changing from his army fatigues into a Dignity shirt. And diplomats in Panama City insist they have proof that the Battalion member who clubbed vice- presidential candidate...