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...Harris in a New Orleans suburb. Police say they found 3 1/2 oz. of heroin, 3 1/2 oz. of crack cocaine, two loaded assault rifles and a .45-cal. semiautomatic handgun, plus $5,800 in the house. Later that day, as he was paraded in shackles out of central lockup, Harris told reporters, "I ain't have nothing to do with no murders. Nothing." He did not respond to a letter sent to the jail by TIME, and his attorney was unable to reach him for comment...
MARTHA STEWART is ready for her lockup. Though she will continue to appeal her obstruction-of-justice conviction, the lifestyle entrepreneur asked a judge last week to let her start serving her five-month sentence immediately--ideally releasing her in time "to plant the new spring garden," she said at a news conference. Stewart lamented how she'll miss "my two beloved, fun-loving dogs, my seven lively cats, my canaries, my horses and even my chickens." Human beings may begin to interest Stewart more after she is forced to eat, bathe and sleep in close quarters with them...
...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...