Word: lockup
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...NARAYANA MURTHY USED TO THINK OF HIMSELF as a committed socialist, but three days in a Yugoslav lockup changed his mind. Back in the early 1970s, while traveling through Europe by train, Murthy was seized by police in a town near the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border. He had been chatting up a fellow passenger in French, and he believes that her boyfriend complained to a cop. Murthy was kept in a room in the train station for 72 hours and shipped out on a freight car. "There was no going back to communism after that," he says...
Described inside are just some of these high-profile crimes and criminals, along with what could be gleaned from court records and interviews about their post-newsmaking careers. Their paths have taken them as far from Harvard as Virginia Commonwealth University and a state-run mental health lockup, while others returned to jobs and classes at Harvard...
...just as their incarceration helped bring it down. Already, crime increases in Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles have been at least partly blamed on their return. Meanwhile, for the ex-offenders and the people entangled in their lives, this new phase can be just as wrenching as the initial lockup...
...incident. That would be the day in early March that Charles Andrew Williams, 15, walked into a school bathroom with his father's .22-cal. revolver and, in a six-minute, 30-shot fusillade, killed two classmates and wounded 13 others. He's now in a juvenile lockup, amid legal wrangling over whether he can be tried as an adult...
...cops-and-robbers tale, but with a film-noir twist. Ovando was railroaded by the police, who had planted a gun to get the conviction. But no one believed Ovando until a dishonest cop, Rafael Perez, talked. Faced with 14 years in prison for stealing cocaine from a police lockup, Perez opted to bargain for a lighter sentence by delivering up his fellow officers. That was five months ago, and Perez has hardly stopped talking since. He has filled 2,000 transcript pages with accounts of cops faking evidence, testifying against innocent people and generally acting like criminals themselves...