Word: penal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that the plot is convoluted, savor this: Air Force One is hijacked by the National Liberation Front for America and crashes into Manhattan Island, which is now a penal colony, a sort of Devil's Island-on-the-Hudson. The President (Donald Pleasance) survives the crash only to be taken hostage by the prisoners. From their headquarters on Liberty Island (home of the Statue of...), the police hire an ex-military hero turned crook. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to rescue the leader of the free world. He has 24 hours to make the rescue, because the Leader...
Just offshore lies Devil's Island, once the world's most dreaded penal colony. A short distance away, piranha-infested rivers course through the rain forest. Yet out of this equatorial backwater on the steamy coast of French Guiana last week roared a gleaming, cream-colored three-stage rocket emblazoned with the flags of eleven European nations. The fiery liftoff, heard for miles around, was a noisy, jubilant awakening for an independent space effort in faraway Europe...
...created to help train prison personnel "for the sensitive role they should perform." Burger admitted that his proposals might not, in the end, really succeed in helping more released prisoners go straight, but, he pleaded, "we must try." Burger's proposals clash with the experience of most penal officials, who have virtually abandoned rehabilitation as a practical possibility in prisons...
...proposals that hold the most prom ise in experts' eyes, like speedy trials and penal reform, are widely deemed to be too expensive ever to come to pass...
...Mamedov, press officer at the Soviet embassy in Washington, said yesterday that his government would probably not allow Dershowitz to attend the trial. Although Mamedov added that Brailovsky "engaged in anti-Soviet propoganda, spread gossip and slandered the Soviet system,"--all crimes under "a special section of the Soviet penal code"--Dershowitz said Brailovsky faces trial "because he is a Jewish human rights activist...