Word: jailings
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...victims even the catharsis of a trial with his plan to plead guilty to 11 felony counts. That surrender enraged some who feared this was one more scam, to protect his family and conceal his true villainy. He still faces 150 years in prison. "I hope his time in jail will be hell on earth," said victim Joan Sinkin, 75, of Boynton Beach...
After serving half of a 14-year jail term, Sara Jane Olson, 62, member of the '70s radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army, was released on March 17. In 2002, Olson was convicted of trying to bomb Los Angeles police cars and for her role in a deadly bank robbery...
Madoff, in jail since March 12, awaits sentencing for his masterminding of the decades-long crime, a billion-dollar Ponzi empire built at least half on the backs of feeder funds like Merkin's and one charged last week, Fairfield Greenwich Group, with a civil complaint by William F. Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of State...
...record numbers of calls on April 1, the day the current tax took effect. Restaurant smoking bans have also helped; so have ad campaigns about the dangers of smoking. Finding any and every way to deter and defeat the habit - including outlawing cigarettes and levying fines (no, not jail terms) for possession - would be a huge benefit to both our physical and fiscal health...
...anything from a bystander protesting unjustified arrest or violent treatment of someone by police to a suspect slandering peace officers or other public officials. Out of 31,800 court cases filed by police or prosecutors in 2006 for "outrage," nearly 14,000 ended with conviction - half of those involving jail terms. (See pictures of the British police clashing with protesters in London...