Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carlo Tresca, of whom it was said that the first word he learned in English was "guilty." In 1937 she dismayed her Socialist friends by joining the Communist Party, and her activity in strikes from coast to coast landed her in jail a dozen times. She began her longest prison term in 1955 when she was convicted with other U.S. Communist leaders un der the Smith Act on the charge of conspiring to overthrow the government and spent 28 months at the Women's Federal Reformatory at Alderson, W. Va. By then, Elizabeth was no longer a slim...
...private party eleven days before. Held incommunicado for 48 hours, he was charged with violating American Samoa's sweeping civil rights law by "intimidating" Governor Lee in "the free exercise or enjoyment of his constitutional right to life, liberty or property." Possible penalty: three years in jail, a $1,500 fine or both...
...University Law School. Amazing the lavalava-clad spectators, Morrow declared the Samoan civil rights law null and void. Moreover, at Wray's request, Judge Morrow approved the arrest of Governor Lee's prosecutor for arresting Brown without a warrant (possible penalty: a $500 fine, a year in jail or both). Said one sober Samoan as he left the courtroom: "We now know that the American Constitution means something in American Samoa...
...days, all federal sentences were for fixed periods, and a parole board could not even consider a case until one-third of a convict's term had elapsed. Bennett inspired the 1958 Omnibus Sentencing Act, which allows far greater parole flexibility and permits a judge to jail a man for three to six months of observation before final sentencing, thus encouraging courts to tailor the rap to the man. As a result of Bennett's pioneering, only 10% of federal prisoners serve more than five years. And the prison population is declining: there are 1,359 fewer cons...
Bennett is now pushing for a law that would allow some prisoners to leave jail during the day to work and see their families (similar to systems long used in other countries, notably Sweden). On the other hand, Bennett's tolerance stops at the death penalty. Unlike other reformers, he wants it kept on the books for particularly heinous crimes, such as high treason, murder for hire and airplane bombings...