Word: lewisburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jurors did find Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth guilty of the charge of illegally smuggling their letters in and out of the Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison where the Catholic priest was serving a six-year term for destroying Selective Service records. Convicted on seven smuggling counts in all, Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth face possible maximum sentences of 40 and 30 years respectively for violating the prison contraband law. The defense was quick to point out, however, that the rule is primarily concerned with drugs and weapons and that the smuggling of letters is so commonplace as to be generally overlooked. Laying...
Convicted of such offenses as impersonating an Army officer, assaulting an FBI agent and fraud, Douglas has spent most of the past eight years in federal prisons. Following a conviction for passing $19,215 worth of bad checks, he was sent to the Lewisburg, Pa., penitentiary. There, in 1970, he befriended Philip Berrigan, who is serving a sentence for destroying Selective Service records. Douglas was permitted to leave the prison during the day to attend classes at nearby Bucknell University. Soon he began to smuggle letters in and out of prison between Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister. Douglas subsequently delivered...
...SENTENCING publisher Ralph Ginzburg to three years in prison February 17, a Federal court in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania effectively denied constitutional protection for the freedom of speech. Convicting Ginzburg of violating an 1872 law forbidding the mailing of obscene material, the court sent Ginzburg to a prison whose warden has described conditions as "badly overcrowded," and whose inmates are on strike to protest the onerous conditions...
...arguing. "I've always been militant. I was brought up on the teachings of Marcus Garvey." Shipped to a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla. ("Wow, did I.run into some racism down there!"), he began to organize the inmates. The result was a "miniriot" and a transfer to Lewisburg, Pa. "I've got to praise the system there," he says. "I was able to get a lot of reading done." Blyden's discoveries included Schopenhauer, Santayana and Hermann Hesse...
Four years and nine months ago, after strenuous efforts by the Kennedy Administration to get him jailed, Teamster Boss James Hoffa walked through the gates of the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., to start serving a 13-year sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud. Last week Jimmy Hoffa walked out, his sentence commuted by order of President Nixon. The Justice Department announcement noted that Hoffa had been a well-behaved prisoner and indicated that Nixon had acted largely for humanitarian reasons: Hoffa's wife Josephine is recovering from a heart attack...