Word: lockups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speck, who was convicted of the 1966 slayings of eight student nurses, spent 25 years in Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security lockup in Joliet, until he died, apparently of a heart attack. On the tape, Speck boasts about the murders. "Strangle a person? It ain't like you see on TV," he says. "You have to go at it for about 3 1/2 minutes. It takes a lot of strength...
...write colloquially eloquent lyrics, and a husky, passionate delivery when he raps. The white power structure he denounces so vehemently must enjoy seeing him squander his gifts reifying its stereotypes of blackness--that is, if the white power structure thinks about him much at all. By leaving the lockup for the world of gangsta rap, he's just entered another prison...
...Kansas, mostly -- in the period before and during the Great Depression. The lies are rascally old friends: that bandits are decent, doomed boys; that bullets don't really hurt; and, of course, that whores have hearts of gold. Charley Floyd has served four years in the Jefferson City, Missouri, lockup for robbing an armored car, but his career really gets going when he and a rodeo cowboy named George Birdwell both try, by storyteller's coincidence, to rob the Earlsboro, Oklahoma, bank at the same time. Meeting cute is what Hollywood calls this: "'Sir, I was here first...
...guns to defend themselves against older kids who want their money. For the ones still on a piggy-bank budget, the streets offer rent-a-guns for $20 an hour. Who can be surprised, then, that on a typical day last year about 100,000 juveniles were in lockup across the country...
...doctors were exported as recently as last January only after being inspected in Beijing's Prison No. 2. One prisoner tried to slip a note into a glove but was reported by other inmates and then beaten by guards with electric batons -- not an unusual occurrence in that lockup...