Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil and legal rights that were hers by law. During her incarceration, she was forced to witness the horrific abuse of other, less respected women prisoners--particularly the mentally ill, who were treated worst of all--while herself enduring the unimaginable squalor and near-starvation conditions of jail, the Nepali government's "last priority...
...they did, in the beginning, in 1992; there was democracy for a few years. But since then, the human rights situation has not improved. It is in my book, about how people in prison were treated. It has not changed. I talked to the home secretary, and he said, "Jail is the last priority" [for the government...
...reject their traditions in order to differentiate themselves on the issues. Thus when Clinton saw their balanced budget demand, they raised their wager to include a 15 percent tax cut. When the President proposed a crime plan with 100,000 new police on the streets, 100,000 new jail cells and an expansion of the death penalty, the Republicans leapt forward to denounce him for including funds for "midnight basketball," one of George Bush's 1000 Points of Light. When President Clinton pushed for adoption of an urban agenda based on Jack Kemp's empowerment zones proposal, the Republicans said...
ARRESTED. ROBERT KIM, 56, civilian Navy computer analyst; on charges of passing classified documents on North Korea and U.S. policy to a South Korean attache; in Alexandria, Virginia. Kim, a South Korean native, became a U.S. citizen in 1974. He faces a maximum 10-year jail sentence if convicted...
...outrageous as the charge was (prosecutors say there is no evidence of any parental abuse), it was not a wild, Manson-like outburst. A career criminal who has been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, Davis knows that child molesters are not popular in prison, and he has been eager to deny that he raped Polly before strangling her. But his defiant statement made it "very easy" to pronounce the death sentence, Judge Thomas C. Hastings said. And Marc Klaas vowed to get the ultimate satisfaction. "The last thing Polly saw before she died was Richard...