Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closer to resolution in Britain's favor. Attorney General Edwin Meese ordered that Joseph Doherty, a Northern Ireland fugitive convicted of killing a British army captain in 1980, should be deported to Britain rather than Ireland. Doherty, who entered the U.S. illegally in 1982 after escaping from a Belfast jail, faces life behind bars if he is sent to Britain. Meese's action was the Reagan Administration's latest effort to sidestep federal court decisions holding that Doherty is exempt from extradition to Britain on the grounds that his actions were politically motivated. Doherty's lawyers petitioned for a review...
...more remarkable. For comfort and guidance he memorized the Psalms in Hebrew and chanted them often. He composed a prayer that he repeated to himself before confronting every new ordeal. It ended, "Grant me the strength, the power, the intelligence, the good fortune, and the patience to leave this jail and to reach the land of Israel in an honest and worthy way." His wife Avital, who indefatigably campaigned around the globe for his release, symbolized for him the one "fixed point" he could absolutely rely upon. Like another mathematician before him, Archimedes, he reckoned that with a place...
...tale sketched by the girl and her mother told of a horrific crime -- the kidnaping, rape and abuse of a black 15-year-old by six white men, one wearing a badge. Last week, after six months of fitful investigations, a judge finally ordered someone to jail -- not a suspect, but the girl's mother Glenda Brawley...
...their actions. But as a legal defense, insanity as a result of postpartum mental illness is not a surefire success. While some women, including Thompson, Remington and Bartek, have received sympathetic hearings on such grounds and gone free, others have been sent to prison. Householder spent 22 months in jail; Comitz is now serving an eight-to-20-year sentence. Both women had told police complex kidnaping stories. Comitz had so completely convinced herself of the truth of her alibi that she passed two lie-detector tests. She revealed the truth only under hypnosis...
...Reagan Administration has long been trying to brand Fidel Castro a violator of human rights. But Cuba denies U.S. charges that it holds several thousand political prisoners and that some are being kept in dungeon-like jails and have been tortured. Last week a five-member panel from the International Committee of the Red Cross began a month-long inspection tour of 15 prisons, the first time the organization has been given permission to make such an investigation. The group's first stop was the Boniato jail, where the investigators reportedly found no plantados, the counterrevolutionaries who allegedly have come...