Word: jails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Long Island lothario Joey Buttafuoco will have to put his budding show business career on hold. He is back in jail after violating his parole four months ago by soliciting an undercover cop posing as a prostitute. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," says People page editor Belinda Luscombe. "No one likes a recidivist. His 'career' has stayed afloat because of his public appearances. But he can't very well wear his snakeskin boots in prison, can he?" Buttafuoco may be out of jail in 67 days -- just in time for Thanksgiving with the family...
Divine Brown, alias Estella Marie Thompson, alias the Hollywood hooker caught in flagrante delicto with Hugh Grant, pleaded no contest to lewd conduct in Hollywood Municipal Court and got six months in jail and a $1,350 fine. Thompson was sent to jail for violating a previous probation. Grant, whose record was clean, got off with a $1,180 fine and two years' probation. Brown was reportedly paid thousands of dollars to tell her story to a British tabloid newspaper, but People Page editor Belinda Luscombe says she's refused plenty of offers stateside. "She does seem to be showing...
...Arpaio's job title is sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. But as the man who oversees 5,900 inmates in the county jail, he might better be thought of as the headmaster of his own school of hard knocks. Since he came to the job early in 1993, Arpaio has organized his prisoners into chain gangs, housed them in tents in the scorching desert and made baloney a staple of their diet. Skin magazines and all broadcast TV stations have been banned. ("Too much violence,'' he says.) For free-time diversions, they get CNN, old Disney films and reruns...
...Chinese prisons and is now an American citizen, had been arrested by the Chinese on charges of espionage, and he came to symbolize the increasingly strained relationship between China and the U.S. The Clinton Administration knew that after a four-hour trial on Wednesday, Wu was sentenced to a jail term of 15 years and expulsion from the country, but his sudden departure startled just about everyone, including Peter Tarnoff, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs who was heading to Beijing with Wu high on his agenda...
...dangerous syndicate. Rebecca Chin, a Taiwanese colleague who carried a concealed video camera in a shoulder bag, was trembling so badly that the film was unusable. Galster and Chin fabricated a reason to see the horn again and produced a damning videotape that landed the officials in jail and called international attention to the scale of the threat Asian trade poses to black rhinos...