Word: leavenworth
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...couldn't go to Vietnam," explained one ex-Worcester school teacher, "so it came down to a choice between five years in Leavenworth and coming up here. I can't do any good for anyone in prison, but the problems that I am trying to solve are North American more than American and I will be as effective here as I ever was in the States...
...years for his cunning way with nonexistent fertilizer tanks, Billie took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, won a retrial on the ground that TV cameras in the courtroom had prejudiced the trial. Last week, tanned and trimmer by 50 Ibs. after two years in federal prisons at Leavenworth and Sandstone, Minn., Billie Sol, 42, returned to the dusty courthouse in Tyler, Texas, and found that the state was willing to ease up on him. In a 45-minute, no-witness hearing, District Judge J. P. Power accepted cheerful Billie's "no contest" plea, handed him a dainty...
...they catch you, it's six months in Leavonworth, simple as that. And six months of Leavenworth is nothing to laugh at because it doesn't count on your army time...
...after a preinduction physical, announced last week that he would rather "go to Leavenworth'' prison than enter military service...
...curiously rising out of the prairies around the town of Lawrence. If he tarries longer, the visitor is impressed by the million-volume library, the small classes, the spectacular wildlife diorama that Kansas inherited from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, the extension courses for prisoners at Leavenworth Penitentiary (favorite subjects: abnormal psychology and sociology of deviant behavior), the big medical school (in nearby Kansas City, Kans...