Word: lockups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...garrulousness is unimpeded by the 23-hr. solitary lockup, which, despite the term, is interrupted by the prisoners' yelling brief messages to one another. They are close enough to be heard. Kaczynski is two doors down from McVeigh, who is next to Yousef. Once, in mid-February, McVeigh the Oklahoma bomber spotted a news brief on the Unabomber and shouted for him to watch. Kaczynski, despite his techno-aversion, tuned in to the 3-min. segment. Kaczynski says he doesn't watch TV unless he feels there is a specific reason for it, according to Friedlander...
Judges and police officers have long shepherded prostitutes in and out of jail with hardly a thought of rehabilitation. "Society considers them throwaway women," says Genesis executive director Gayle McCoy. She and her staff lobby judges to consider their program as an alternative to the lockup. Genesis' track record is starting to win them over. About 70% of enrollees complete the program, and 80% of graduates don't relapse, says McCoy, who bases her estimates on follow-up visits with former clients. Without Genesis House, says Raymond Risley, of the Chicago police department, "these women don't have the tools...
...Faye have four children and live as normal a life as can be expected when sexually abused fugitive children may show up at the breakfast table and members of the Montana militia may call saying they know an attorney who can spring one of Faye's wronged "Sallys" from lockup...
...talk on the phone. It's jail! And so you pace the curved, windowless corridors, work out in the gym and page Ginsburg a couple of times a day; an old family friend, he has turned into your D.C. dad. Your time in lockup has been relieved only by the week you spent with your real father in Los Angeles. Though you sided with Mom in the divorce, you and he are getting closer, thanks to this mess. But the California paparazzi are even worse than the ones in Washington. They crushed you and your dad in Santa Monica...
...with his attorney, Stephen Neal, the legal Houdini behind his release, Keating confronts naked hostility: a complete stranger, recognizing his craggy features like a ghost from an old "wanted" poster, drops by his table to hurl an unprovoked insult. He's unperturbed. "When I was first brought into the lockup I faced a howling, screaming mob," Keating says matter-of-factly. He points out that unlike other major white-collar felons of the 1980s, who sojourned in comparatively luxurious "Club Feds," he did "hard time." On the inside, he was known as "the old guy" and initially disliked by fellow...