Word: lockups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defendant to figure in some bail decisions. On the federal level, there has been about a 36% increase in pretrial detainees since the act was passed, from a daily average of 5,383 in 1984 to 7,328 last year, or about one-seventh of those in federal lockup. "It puts a burden on us to find jail space," says Georgia U.S. Marshal Lynn Duncan...
...Triumph TR 7 on the morning of June 2 when he was stopped for speeding in Signal Hill (pop. 5,600), a city surrounded by Long Beach. According to Officer Jerry Lee Brown, Settles refused to cooperate. Two other policemen helped bring him to the Signal Hill lockup, where he was booked for resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and possession of cocaine Two hours later, Settles was found dead in his cell, hanging by a mattress cover...
...attacked by inmates, apparently without provocation. The next day, representatives of the guards demanded that the prisoners be locked up and shaken down to collect the illicit weapons. Both Warden Barry Mintzes and State Corrections Director Perry Johnson vetoed the plan as unnecessarily provocative, but the guards began a lockup anyway. Fearful that they might be confined to their cells over the long holiday weekend, prisoners in four of Jackson's 14 cellblocks refused to be caged. They turned on the guards, who fled to safety, and began setting fires. After rampaging for several hours, the inmates agreed...
Some 250 striking firemen jammed into a courtroom in Kansas City last week, demanding that they be put in jail. City officials more than obliged, issuing contempt-of-court citations against 700 of the city's 850 firemen, and marching many of them off to the lockup in handcuffs. Angry firemen sabotaged their equipment, stuffing rags into water hoses and pouring sugar into the fuel tanks of their trucks. Most outrageous of all, three fire fighters were charged with setting grass fires while they were on strike. National Guardsmen were called out to protect the police and other substitutes...
They were captured a third time and sent to the more secure Dallas County jail. Says Young County District Attorney Boyd Richie of his lockup: "The only way to fix it is to bulldoze...