Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...permanence inherent in the law highlights its implicit social critique: our penal system has disintegrated to such a point that it serves no purpose except to keep the criminals off the street. A person walking out of jail is no better than he or she was before entering. Whereas jail was once seen as a place for penitence and growth, where people who went wrong could change themselves and improve, we now associate jail with an overly expensive and dangerous cage. In jail little of value occurs; instead, increased rage is generated. Those who emerge from the prison doors...
...civil rights and anti-war activist in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1955, Seeger was sentenced to jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, according to the Harvard News Office statement...
Womack, who awaits a sentencing hearing on March 14, faces up to 10 years in jail and a possible fine, according to Assistant District Attorney Anthony Gemma, who prosecuted the case...
Womack's anger at the system, Homans argued, stemmed from his having spent two years in Massachusetts hospitals after serving jail time for a 1987 crime...
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA: Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey may be headed for jail. U.S. District Judge Maurice Paul has denied Bailey's last ditch appeal in a tax case, meaning the famed defense lawyer has until 10 a.m. EST Friday to come up with $21 million or be jailed on contempt of court charges. Paul had given Bailey until February 29 to turn over the $3 million in cash and $18 million dollars worth of stock that Bailey maintains he received in lieu of fees and expenses from a former client, drug trafficker Claude Duboc. The government claims...