Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enforcers unanimously grumble that drug dealers, even when convicted, are back on the streets peddling their poison in a few days. The lack of jail cells in which to lock them up is so severe that New York Deputy Police Chief Francis Hall contends that "we have to stop thinking of traditional prisons. We can house literally thousands in barracks-type facilities." Even if that were done, prosecutors complain that a drastic shortage of judges would still result in quick release of drug pushers. Under New York State law, a defendant charged with a misdemeanor, as most drug sellers...
...theory is simple: mass testing poses far more of a deterrent to drug use than the rather remote threat of going to jail. If people know they will have to pass a urine test in order to get or keep a good job -- or join a sports team or stay in school or whatever -- they are less likely to dabble with drugs. Employees who fail can be steered toward treatment programs, under an implied or explicit threat of being fired if they refuse. Look, for example, at what happened in the U.S. armed forces after they intensified random mass urine...
Puttnam's name was first broached for his new job at a lunch on June 10 between Fay Vincent, Columbia Pictures Industries' chairman, and Thomas Lewyn, Puttnam's lawyer. Vincent had known the British producer since Puttnam made the Turkish jail saga Midnight Express for Columbia in 1978. Ten days later, Vincent traveled to London to meet with the producer. After wavering a bit, Puttnam accepted Columbia's offer...
Names are changed to protect the guilty as well as the innocent. The result is a fictionalized autobiography in which Kesey is called Devlin Deboree, a once celebrated novelist who served a short jail sentence in California for marijuana possession. Tracking the cast requires some familiarity with Beat Generation hagiography. The names Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso are included in a straightforward litany. But Neal Cassady, the loquacious speed demon, is swathed in multiple fictions. He is called Houlihan by Kesey-Deboree, who complicates matters by saying that Houlihan, rather than the real Cassady, was the model...
Daniloff, the Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, was arrested eight days ago and is presently being detained in a Moscow jail. Soviet officials have threatened Daniloff with a spy trial...