Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, obtained a license from his local community to own the weapon that he has ordered. In all cases, the bill prohibits the sale of long guns and ammunition to those under 18. Violators would face a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine and ten years in jail...
...almost-deserted campus, several thousand sol diers fanned out and arrested the first 500 students they could find. They also seized 34 professors. When other stu dents demonstrated against the invasion, riot cops cracked down with billy clubs, tear gas and nausea gas, clapped an other 500 demonstrators into jail. Thousands of students retreated to the cam pus of the huge Polytechnic School. They were so certain that the army would invade there, too, that they put up signs reading WELCOME, SOLDIERS...
...students. 20 students were hurt and three or four were killed. The army took the bodies of the dead students and burned them -- afterwards claiming that no one was killed. As far as the army was concerned, these students had just disappeared. All the students were taken to jail. Many injured students were left bleeding all night in jail before being taken to the hospital in the morning. Most of the students were released the next day. About 20 are still prisoners...
...central witness in one of the century's most shocking assassinations. He was so important that the state sought to do everything-even keep him a prisoner-to protect him against harm from possible accomplices in the killing. At first, Stephens willingly moved into Shelby County jail, where he was free to come and go but was accompanied by a bodyguard. He was away too often to suit police. Claiming that his activities outside the jail jeopardized his own safety, the state invoked a Tennessee law that provides for confinement of material witnesses, and imprisoned Stephens in July...
...L.B.J., as its inmates call the Long Binh Jail, is like army stockades everywhere: not much worse than Stateside prisons, or more uncomfortable than the ordinary barracks of South Viet Nam. Located in the middle of the Army's main supply and administration center twelve miles northeast of Saigon, it houses 700 prisoners in a barbed-wire compound built for 400. Their crimes range from smoking pot or going AWOL to theft and murder, and as an M.P. staff officer puts it, the prisoners create "every kind of problem that you find in a civilian prison...