Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid the furor, Adlai Stevenson seemed the least perturbed of all, calmly turned the other cheek and said of his assailants: "I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school...
...delegation arrived in Saigon to look into Buddhist charges of persecution. The mission got a guided tour of two pagodas still under police surveillance, and avoided a third where a demonstration was feared. So far the visitors have met only government-approved monks, and none of those in jail. Facing a ticklish diplomatic problem, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge decided that the fact finders could interview Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang, one of three monks who took refuge in the embassy-if the Diem government had no objection...
Four young men have sweated out the comforts of the county jail in Americus, Ga., ever since August, when they were arrested during civil rights demonstrations. They cannot be freed on bail-they have been charged with "inciting an insurrection," a crime that, in Georgia at least, is punishable by death...
...East Baton Rouge, La., two young men who visited a fellow civil rights demonstrator in jail were arrested themselves and charged with violating Louisiana's law against "criminal anarchy." Passed during World War I and updated during World War II, the law makes it a crime, punishable by up to ten years at hard labor, to teach or advocate "subversion, opposition or destruction" of the federal or state government. The principal evidence against the youths appeared to be that they brought their friend a copy of The Ugly American...
...buildings in Savannah and looked at their encumbrances and their tax valuation. We found that all these buildings together would not be enough to furnish a $15,000 peace bond." Since the judge's terms make it financially impossible to put up a bond, the accused goes to jail without ever having been convicted of any crime...