Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jeffrey Stafford had served eight months in Florida's Palm Beach County stockade for aggravated assault when a judge offered him a choice: he could continue to do time in jail or he could go home. The catch? He would have to spend the remaining months of his sentence under electronic house arrest, with a radio transmitter attached to his ankle and a computer monitoring his movements. For Stafford, 28, it was no contest. Says he: "I had been in the stockade long enough to know I didn't ever want to go back...
...time at home. The idea has even been used most recently to quarantine an AIDS victim. An accused prostitute, she has been equipped with one of the new devices and was awaiting arraignment last week in the custody of her mother. "We needed to get her out of the jail because of real or imagined contagion," says Florida Judge Edward Garrison, who has championed use of the technology in his state...
...under charges of withholding documents from Congress, and Husband Robert Burford, 62, Bureau of Land Management director; she for public drunkenness and he for driving while intoxicated; in Arlington, Va. After Robert was detained, police say, Anne demanded to see him, became abusive, was arrested and put in jail, where she scratched a female deputy. Said the sheriff: "Drunk-in-public charges are not very common. You almost have to ask to be arrested...
Although Boesak was greeted by a cheering crowd of 300 as he exited the jail, this man who has galvanized Black dissent over the past decade won't be seeing many crowds in the months to come. The government was careful to place 10 seriously limiting conditions on Boesak's release. He can not leave his home between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m; he can no longer address meetings of more than 10 people, organize boycotts or divestment drives, visit educational institutions, or attend funerals without police permissions...
...violent philosophies of Boesak, Tutu and the rest, younger activists like Stephen Tshewete are gaining greater followings. A former prisoner who has urged that township unrest be brought into white areas, Tshewete's impassioned pleas are becoming increasingly popular. If moderates who want peaceful change are being thrown in jail, youths are saying to themselves, why should they continue to limit their tactics...