Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday, December 14 CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope portrays a modern-day Saint Nick caught in a traffic jam on a California freeway and thrown into jail. With Bob are Phil Silvers, Ernest Borgnine and Wally...
These affluent days, most Americans rarely think about what's going on in the local jail, or they assume that prison reform has worked some quiet miracle of rehabilitation. Experienced in mates know better. Understaffed and undersupervised, county jails often provide terror far more chilling than any thing to be found in a full-scale pen itentiary. Last week the everyday horrors of life in Chicago's Cook County Jail erupted into public view. A grand jury has been investigating, and the city's newspapers have started interviewing former inmates. The result is a stomach-turning catalogue...
...Also outraged by the movie was Bonnie's sister, Billie Jean Parker, who lives in Dallas and had spent nine months in jail for sheltering Bonnie. She engaged Attorneys Jim Martin and Clayton Fowler (previous client: Jack Ruby) to sue Warner Bros, for $1,025,000. The film, it is alleged, "blackened" the memory of Bonnie and injured the reputation of Billie Jean, who offers some support of the claim: "One time Bonnie's leg was burned real bad in a car wreck. It took $9-a-day worth of Unguentine to put on her leg. Clyde...
Evans had cause for concern. In 1963 two London newsmen who had been charged with contempt went to jail for several months. Evans apologized to the court profusely and accepted responsibility. He said, though, that he had not seen the offending caption before it went to press...
Because the paper had devised a system to avoid such errors, Lord Chief Justice Parker did not jail Evans but fined the Times $12,000 and court costs last week. Making the best of it, the daily Times congratulated the judge for at least distinguishing between responsibility and culpability...