Word: jails
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...according to U.S. Census data, adjusted for inflation. Despite those gains, about 20% of blacks remained below the poverty line in 2002, up from 18% in 2000. Poor blacks struggle with high incarceration and unemployment rates. An estimated 30% of black men under 40 have been in jail, and according to a study by Community Service Society, a nonprofit that advocates for low-income people, almost half of black men in New York City are jobless. But middle-class blacks are more concerned about affirmative action and cuts in Pell grants to pay for college tuition...
...slayings were especially sinister. On Sunday, June 21, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were headed to Meridian, Miss., in their station wagon. Outside Philadelphia, they were stopped by deputy sheriff Cecil Price, a Klansman, who put them in jail. According to testimony in the 1967 trial, Price plotted with Killen to release the three men that night, then have them tailed by Price, Killen and other Klansmen. The conspirators abducted the civil rights workers, whom Killen had allegedly ordered two Klansmen to shoot. The three bodies were buried on a nearby farm, where they were found a month and a half...
Goodman's parents were at the White House seeking help from President Lyndon Johnson when he received a call that the car had been found. Says Goodman's mother Carolyn Goodman, 89: "I knew [Andrew] was going into a world of risk, [that] he might end up in a jail somewhere." But not murdered. "If I were alone in a room with [Killen]," she says, "I would ask him what was on his mind" that night. "Could he tell me? Would it help...
...RETURNED HOME. ERIK AUDE, 24, actor who appeared in the films Dude, Where's My Car and Bounce; after 34 months in a Rawalpindi jail for drug smuggling; to Los Angeles. Aude was arrested at Islamabad airport in February 2002 when security agents found 3.6 kg of opium in the lining of his suitcase. His seven-year sentence was commuted when Razmik Minasian, who hired Aude to transport leather goods from Pakistan to the U.S., was arrested in Los Angeles on a drug-smuggling charge and admitted that he had put the drugs in the suitcase lining. On his return...
...buoy public support, Musharraf seems to be cozying up to former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, both of whom are in enforced exile; Bhutto's husband, Asif Zardari, was recently released from jail, where he had been held for eight years on corruption charges. Reconciliation could lead to a promising tableau: a general-cum-President sharing democratic space with the leaders of Pakistan's two main political parties...