Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playground, in kitchen and classroom. The U.S. Negro, shedding the thousand fears that have encumbered his generations, made 1963 the year of his outcry for equality, of massive demonstrations, of sit-ins and speeches and street fighting, of soul searching in the suburbs and psalm singing in the jail cells...
...business anyway! So you're furious at Starr--Dad's right, you think; he should be working for Hitler. And don't get you started on Linda Tripp. She was your friend--yet she wore a wire and set you up. She's the one who should be in jail. Of course you hate the media for the way they've dissected you. Your hometown paper, the L.A. Times, had 26 reporters on a single story about you, interviewing baby sitters and kindergarten classmates. So-called friends have sold you out for cash, and real ones won't defend...
...Georgia case that had Starr's office in confusion last week. In that case, he was found to have violated a defendant's civil rights when he was Georgia state prosecutor. The defendant, Ronald Reeves, was arrested on a weapons offense, held for several days in jail without being charged, and was denied the chance to call his lawyer or his wife. A jury later found Udolf had "maliciously and arbitrarily" violated Reeves' civil rights and awarded Reeves $50,000 in damages. "I accept responsibility for that, and I regret it," Udolf said last week...
Republic columnist David Leibowitz, a former Arpaio cheerleader, says he had a change of heart after examining details surrounding the death of an inmate who suffocated in 1996 while locked into a restraining chair with a towel over his head. Arpaio says he wants a jail visit to be a miserable experience; critics note that three-fourths of his inmates can't make bail and haven't even had a trial...
...says the sheriff has until May to clean up his office or they'll see him in court. Arpaio says he has already enacted the necessary reforms. But if his tough-guy, tax-saving tactics are as effective as he claims at discouraging crime, why has the average daily jail population gone from 4,846 to 6,485 on his watch? Why is he campaigning for a new jail? And why has the budget increased by roughly $10 million, to a total of $91.5 million...