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Wechsler saved the details of his flight for a forthcoming book on the subject, but he said in a phone interview from Berlin that he left Bavaria because he became "panic stricken and frightened" at the prospect of being sent to Fort Leavenworth, a notorious military prison...
Despite the Pentagon's intentions, its sometimes haphazard efforts offer little comfort to victims and their families. Jeromy Willis, for example, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and is now serving time at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Yet Marie Willis' family remains bitter, because the military ignored so many warnings that a tragedy was afoot. Her family says Jeromy was confined to base twice because he tried to kill Marie, but he was allowed to roam freely on the base when the Air Force invited and paid for her to return there and testify against...
...Mandatory jail time for hitters who take called third strikes. You want to see some pressure-filled at bats? Watch those 1-2 counts turn into foul-ball festivals, as anything near the strike zone gives even guys like Junior Griffey and Robby Alomar images of Leavenworth and Alcatraz...
...Hall and 11 other communists were indicted under the Smith Act on charges of advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. He jumped bail and fled to Mexico, was captured in a border motel, and spent several years in a maximum security cell at Leavenworth, right beside Machine Gun Kelly. Such exploits built a mythic aura around Hall, who, two years after his release in 1957, became general secretary of a party in turmoil. Gone were the halcyon days of 1932 when a communist candidate for President garnered 102,000 votes. Between McCarthy's witch-hunts and Nikita Khrushchev...
Earl Beale, a salesman at a Boston used-car lot, is a former college basketball player who did time in Leavenworth for his role in a point-shaving scandal. The fact that he is an ex-con has somehow been erased from official records. For this dispensation, Earl knows that he owes someone a favor, and when the call comes, it looks simple. All he has to do is steal a car in Rhode Island...