Word: maximum
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...death or life of the movement." It could also mean life imprisonment for the defendants, the maximum penalty for conspiracy to kidnap. The trial will doubtless turn into a showcase for the Berrigans' ideas, particularly with Kunstler aiding the defense. Kunstler has already assumed his customary belligerent political stance. "We have to speak to the larger issues," says one alleged coconspirator...
INDIANA. With its 40-ft. walls, the gray castle in Michigan City looks its part: a maximum-security pen for 1,800 felons, including teen-age lifers. Inside, the walls flake, the wiring sputters and the place is falling apart. Indiana spends only 1.5% of its state budget on all forms of correction...
...rage has gone partly into self-help training: 1,000 push-ups a day, heavy reading, and the writing of letters so striking that they have recently been published in a book, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. He now sits in San Quentin's maximum-security wing, awaiting trial on new charges of murdering a white prison guard at Soledad Prison last year. If convicted, Jackson faces a mandatory sentence: death in the gas chamber...
...Petros, Tenn. But Warden Lewis Tollett keeps a special eye on the man who is serving 99 years for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and vows that he will never escape. Indeed, Ray, 42, would need a miracle to bust out of Tennessee's only maximum-security prison, a stark structure of white stone in the rugged Cumberland Mountains, where inmates used to dig coal round the clock for 25? a ton. Things are far better now, but only a masochist would try to get away. Ray's isolated world consists of his cellblock...
...undercapitalization of much of the securities trading business. The outcome was emergency legislation, signed into law two weeks ago by President Nixon. The new law set up the Securities Investor Protection Corp., a Government-controlled corporation that will insure investors against losses of up to $50,000 (including a maximum $20,000 in cash) in brokerage-house failures. A $150 million insurance fund will be raised by assessing brokers up to 1% of their annual revenues...