Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government flashed a temporary red light to enforcement officers, ordering that the edict take effect only against a few disreputable houses that employed minors or peddled dope. It was small solace for the trade. Complained one prostitute last week: "Attendance has fallen off. Clients fear they may land in jail." A madam with initiative-and style-was busy sending out notes to erstwhile customers: "I have the pleasure of informing you that I expect you at my house on Tocornal Street after 6 p.m. Bring a friend...
...jury actually agreed on the verdict. In the other 25%, partly because defendants chose jury trials in hopes of better deals, the jury disagreed massively in the direction of leniency. Judges, in fact, mete out death sentences considerably more often than juries. To those who demand ever stiffer jail sentences, the authors point out that wherever the law permits harshness, juries are most reluctant to return guilty verdicts...
...punching bag was Brian London, a 32-year-old Blackpudlian whose face should be on posters warning, FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT. Cassius' motives for fighting London were 1) a pressing need for money (he must post a $50,000 alimony bond before Aug. 27 or go to jail), and 2) a fine regard for his personal safety. London already had been knocked out by Henry Cooper and Floyd Patterson-both of whom Clay had demolished. At 6 ft. 3 in., Cassius was a full three inches taller than London, and he had an advantage of seven inches in reach...
...specifically Communist crime is "hooliganism," a rubric that covers everything from horsing around in public to beating up policemen. Hooliganism is intimately associated with alcohol-fully 80% of arrested hooligans prove to be stoned on vodka or Georgian wine. Most of them regard the customary 15-day jail rap as a holiday from work. From now on, the fact that a man is drunk when he commits a crime is to be considered an aggravating rather than an extenuating circumstance...
...legal trouble. It is, in a sense, a way of life with them." As a judge, Alexander has "seen at first hand the helplessness and bewilderment of the poor when faced with the legalities of our complex society." The poor need lawyers not only to stay out of jail, he said, but also to contend with landlords, bureaucrats and faceless welfare agencies. Forever trapped in a "debtor's spiral," said Alexander, the poor constantly face repossession because of a single missed payment, as well as wage attachments that often lead to their being fired. The poor, Alexander held, need...