Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball games, when a fan jumps out of the bleachers and onto the field, the television cameras don't usually focus on the errant fan. Shinagel reasons that by ignoring objectionable behavior, the press would help curtail such incidents. People who wouldn't be deterred by a night in jail and a trip to court would think twice if they knew they wouldn't get any free publicity...
...There are a million kids out there who have no skills other than fighting," says James Galipeau, a veteran officer in the probation department. "They are not afraid of the police or jail or of dying." As demonstrated by the Good Friday attack, the gang members also show a grotesque disregard for the safety of innocent people. Of the 387 gang-related homicides in Los Angeles County last year, approximately half were innocent bystanders caught in the cross fire of shootouts...
Gates launched his biggest offensive yet last week: 1,000-man sweeps of gangland territories. At four command posts around the city, including the parking lot of the Los Angeles Coliseum, jail buses with barred windows and portable booking stations awaited fresh business. Gates had announced the drive with such fanfare that many dealers in South Central L.A. had gone to ground, but on Friday the police still managed to bust 334 gang members citywide on charges ranging from driving without a license to narcotics and weapons possession...
Thousands of criminal offenders routinely petition the President of the U.S. for a pardon. Provided they have served their jail terms, stayed clean for five to seven years, and filled in a four-page form explaining their case, a pardon may be forthcoming -- but the process is likely to take at least three years. Chances are, though, that if Oliver North and his co-defendants in the Iranscam scandal receive pardons, the deal will not happen quite that way. President Reagan will probably grant their petitions with the stroke of a pen, without a three-year wait and perhaps even...
Residents of Wigglesworth Hall F-entry volunteered their rooms for a temporary jail, where prisoners were given classic jailbird garb of blackstriped hats and shirts to wear for the duration of their prison terms...