Word: penalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rising crime rate. Nixon proposed a broad program aimed at both organized crime and what he called "street crime," including legalized wiretapping, legislation to offset Supreme Court decisions that have limited the use of confessions, establishment of a congressional committee on crime, and the upgrading of police, judicial and penal systems...
...Minh's closest and most trusted cronies for two decades. Rising steadily upward from his initial efforts as a schoolboy agitator against French colonial rule in the 1920s, he attracted the attention of the French Sureté, and at 18 was shipped off to the penal colony on Poulo Condore archipelago in the South China Sea, the Asian equivalent of Devil's Island. Two more jail terms followed, interspersed with propaganda work; from 1939 to 1945, he edited a clandestine pro-Communist newssheet in Son La penitentiary. Thuy was later rewarded with the editorship of Cuu Quoc (National...
...bourne, Dr. Saul Wiener found that the same was true of four Australians, all XYY, who were doing time for murder, attempted murder or larceny. Dr. Mary A. Telfer of Pennsylvania's Elwyn Institute found five XYY abnormalities among 129 inmates at Pennsylvania prisons and penal hospitals selected for study because of their height...
...admit that there must be numerous men in supervisory or administrative positions in our prisons today who got there only because of political affiliation and who are far from being trained for the jobs they hold. But I do sincerely believe that the major factor in the ever-growing penal problems of today stems from the complacency and apparent unconcern of the voting public and inefficiencies of the duly elected legislators. If only a small percentage of the funds used for all of the surveys and publications stressing "needed reforms" could be siphoned off and diverted to the institutional officials...
Accusations against the other defendants include six charges of "selling an obscene thing," 18 charges of "selling or distributing obscene literature," and 10 charges of "selling an obscene thing to a minor." The prosecution is basing its case on Chapter 28 of the Penal Code of Massachusetts, which prohibits the sale of obscene literature...