Word: jails
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...Thurgood Marshall, included the statement that Powell's first drink on each binge was a "voluntary exercise of his will." Powell, said the psychiatrist, was strongly-but not overwhelmingly-compelled to continue drinking once he started. Marshall also worried about what would happen if the court forbade the jailing of drunks. "The picture of the law's 'revolving door' of arrest, incarceration, release and rearrest is not a pretty one," he admitted, but he could see no satisfactory alternative. Even doctors critical of arresting drunks cannot agree on any treatment that would provide more...
Justice Byron White, who cast the fifth and crucial vote against Powell, was obviously moved by much of the Fortas argument. A chronic alcoholic, said White in a concurring opinion, cannot properly be punished merely for being intoxicated. Then why jail Powell? Because, said White, he had not proved that it was his alcoholism that compelled him to be intoxicated in public. By that cautious hairsplitting, White seemed to suggest that the next defendant who dries out long enough to convince the court that he could not stop himself from getting drunk in a public instead of a private place...
...accused assassin of Robert Kennedy sat passively in his 12-ft. by 12-ft. maximum-security cell at Los Angeles County's Central Jail for Men, reading works on theosophy. Meanwhile, bits and pieces of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan's personality and past began falling into place. Most of the insights came with last week's release of testimony taken by the grand jury, which had convened the day after Kennedy died...
Subsequently the suspect was transferred to a windowless maximum-security cell in the hospital area of the Central Jail for Men. A guard remained in the cell with him. Another watched through an aperture in the door. Altogether, the county sheriff's office assigned 100 men to personal and area security around the cell and the jail. For the suspect's second court appearance, the judge came to him and presided at a hearing in the jail chapel...
These Octobrists were the conscience of the movement that would develop during the year. On Friday, October 20, they presented their 984 cards to the Justice Department. Since then, a Selective Service memorandum has called for them to be treated as delinquents, and many are facing five-year jail terms...