Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Gerhart walked into Bow Street Police Court this week he was-in an international sort of way-hotter than a sheriff's pistol. He was ordered to show cause why he should not be extradited to the U.S., and put in jail without bail for the eight days until the hearing begins...
...softball game between two inmate teams at Massachusetts' Plymouth county jail, the ball was belted over the wall. Unwilling to hold up the game, good-natured Guard Robert Woodward opened the gate so that a trusty could retrieve it, whereupon four prisoners knocked him down and escaped...
...Many who did fight were captured and are in government prisons. In an old Turkish jail at Ioannina there are 300 such captives. I spoke to some of them who had belonged to the guerrillas' crack Ypsilanti Brigade. One, an 18-year-old officer, trained in Bulgaria, said he was told by the Communists that the U.S. wanted Greece for a colony. 'Sometimes when losses were heavy,' he said, 'we wondered if perhaps we had made a mistake...
...sheet each week, rewriting the prince's pompous, half-literate articles, churning out copy for his own column, "The Diary of a Writer." And though The Citizen whooped it up for Czar and Russia, Dostoevsky found himself in several scrapes with the censors; once he was sent to jail for 48 hours for having violated a bureaucratic regulation...
Extenuation. In San Diego, Lloyd Sampsel sent a notarized statement to the Bureau of Internal Revenue promising to attend to his tax forms as soon as possible and explaining why he was late in filing: he was in jail for murder...