Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Danes and Finns are just as tough as the Swedes about even slightly tipsy motor-vehicle operators. Violations cannot be fixed; Member of Parliament, clerk, street sweeper, all live in the same terror of flunking the blood-alcohol test and being clapped into jail. Time and again, when we lived in Denmark, friends with as few as two schnapps or highballs under their belts telephoned the police-who dispatched a courteous cop, free of charge, to drive them home...
Unable to make bail or hire a good lawyer, the Negro awaits his state court trial in a segregated jail; even the drunk tanks are generally separate, and the turnkeys are uniformly white. When he finally does go to trial, the Negro enters the courthouse that to him has become the symbol of all his afflictions. There may be a Negro janitor about the premises, but everyone else is white, from judges and prosecutors down to clerks. Though many Southern judges dispense justice with admirable evenhandedness, the judge the Negro faces may well be ruled by his own prejudice...
...turned down cold, a rejection so embittering to Indonesians that they turned away from Sjahrir's conciliatory position to Sukarno's militant anti-Western leftism; after a long illness; in Zurich, where he had lived since 1965, when Sukarno released him from an eight-year jail term for his continuing pro-West sentiments...
Seven members of CNVA--including two girls and a Harvard student on leave of absence--are now halfway through a 20-day jail sentence. Along with four others, the seven were sentenced for loitering and obstructing traffic for an attempted sit-in March 23 at the Boston Army Base in South Boston. Two of the other four, including a Harvard senior, paid a $20 fine instead of going to jail. The last two, both Harvard students, have appealed the decision...
CNVA holds an hour vigil every morning outside the Charles Street jail, where the seven are held