Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are many ways, some gruesome, some graceful, to kill yourself once you set your mind to it. Ted Kaczynski's attempt to hang himself with his underwear in his jail cell last week seemed a clumsy gesture compared with the convoluted strategy he has been employing in court. First he threatened to fire his lawyers if they kept insisting on portraying him as mentally ill. Then he argued that he wanted to defend himself. And that, lawyers observed, would probably ensure that he would wind up dead after...
...executed. "We want people to know what is happening to them and why it's happening, and not have any illusions about it," says Babcock. "So actual crazy people can't be executed." Kaczynski, Babcock believes, will have a new hobby once this trial is over. "Being in jail and running his case is what he's going to do for the next 30 years...
With the hearing over, Kaczynski huddled with his attorneys briefly, then stood up, clutching his envelope full of scribbled notes and headed for the door. The marshals have him under 24-hour suicide watch at the jail as the proceedings pause while the experts have a chance to size up his mental state. And through it all, he will probably go on insisting he is not insane even as he manages with each successive gesture to suggest otherwise...
Cousin has been in jail for more than two years, and a few weeks ago, he marked his 19th birthday behind bars. He had little to celebrate. He's on death row at Louisiana State Prison at Angola, a former plantation turned high-security prison that was made infamous by the movie Dead Man Walking. Cousin's cell is small and stark, with cement floors, a metal sleeping bunk and a squat, steel toilet. He is locked in his cell 23 hours a day, with a one-hour break to exercise or use the telephone. Meals are pushed through...
SACRAMENTO: For a man who has shown extraordinary resentment towards any slightest suggestion that he may be a "sickie," Ted Kaczynski was surprisingly cooperative when federal psychiatrist Sally Johnson spent hours probing his psyche at the county jail Monday. Indeed, if the Unabomber suspect can just bear out four more days of such examination, he may yet hold onto his life...