Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chice gave his wallet to Ferman, a final gesture of acceptance of going to jail. He said to Avery, "Let's go, man." They walked down to the corner (a SNCC man never jaywalks in the south) with all eyes on the street focussed on them.... It was 2:20 p.m. As Chico and Avery came close to the line, the fat trooper with the cigar and the blue helmet, Major Smelley, barked at them, "Move on." They kept going towards the line of registrants. The next thing I saw was Chico Neblett on the ground, troopers all around...
...parents did not look as if they thought they were going to jail. They chatted quietly among themselves in the front of the courtroom, a comely group that under other circumstances might have been waiting for an admissions-committee meeting at the country club to get under...
Michigan's unusual statute sets no standard for judging which cons are rich enough to pay as they stay; the law says that an inmate who "appears" solvent enough is subject to being charged the daily $4 to $9 that it costs the state to keep him in jail. Few actually get into this fix; the state has collected only $30,000 from paying prisoners in the past nine years. But the possibilities are clear from the record of Lifer Roman Olezniczak (murder, bank robbery), the state's top paying con. While earning $5 a month...
...arrest. One mother brought diapers, changed her baby on a court bench. Others came with baby bottles and box lunches. Taken before the judge in relays of five, the parents were charged with loitering on school premises, a form of disorderly conduct punishable by up to 60 days in jail. Then they were released in their own custody to await trial next month...
...falsely charged with theft and murder while he realizes she is the love of his youth--whom he had impregnated, given an unwanted hundred rubles, and deserted. She is unjustly sentenced to four year's hard labor while he becomes obsessed by his guilt. She lives contentedly in jail while he tries everything to get her out. She turns down his offer of marriage while he succeeds in having her pardoned. Finally, she opts for another while he carriages off into Siberian mist...