Word: lockups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tonnot, a Lyon University law graduate, faces a ten-year jail sentence and $50,000 fine: "I'm done for," he sobbed when he was arrested. "I'm going to kill myself." Pending trial, a considerate magistrate put him in a suburban jail rather than the Lyon lockup, where Tonnot might encounter pimps whom he had done out of a livelihood...
...Army of Peace" in Washington in 1971 tried, somewhat grandiosely, to shut down the Federal Government, the police found an efficient tactic to keep the city moving: mass arrest. During the protests, the capital police rounded up more than 13,000 persons, herding them, it seemed, into every lockup in town, including a fenced-in practice field near R.F.K. Memorial Stadium. Most were released the next...
...fact that his actions had given many embittered blacks a renewed trust in courts instead of more reason to revile them. Here was a judge who pointedly asked: "Can anyone imagine the police invading an all-white church, rounding up everybody in sight and busing them to a wholesale lockup in a police garage...