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Fiery Words. By 1700, Irish Catholics owned only one-seventh of the land. The Penal Laws?enacted by a Protestant Parliament in Dublin ?turned the warrior race into virtual slaves. Catholics were excluded from political life, forbidden to have their own schools and could not buy back land from Protestants, some of whom were sympathetic to their plight. In 1791, Wolfe Tone, a Dublin Protestant, formed a Society of United Irishmen, whose members swore "never to desist in our efforts until we have subverted the authority of England over our country and asserted our independence." His movement failed...
...sentence as wayward, and 221 of them, including the three girls, were out on parole or probation. They will now all go free, unless the state appeals. Says Judge Kaufman: "The state will simply have to find different ways to treat these youths. Foster homes, halfway houses-but not penal institutions...
Sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a 15 year-old New Jersey girl, the cocky young high school dropout stubbornly refused to admit any guilt. During 14 years on death row, a record in U.S. penal history, he argued his innocence in court appeals and a remarkably well-written book (Brief Against Death). Last week Edgar Smith, now 37, became a free man. His release did not mean that he had been pardoned or acquitted; instead, he made a carefully rehearsed public confession. The extraordinary exercise in plea bargaining not only obscured the truth but also soured...
...announced in Baghdad in 1863 that he was the one foretold by the Bab. He was called Baha'u'llah, meaning, the "Glory of God"; most of the Bab's known as Baha'is. Further exile took Baha'u'llah to Constantinople, Adrianople, and finally to the Turkish penal colony of Akka (in present day Israel) where he remained a prisoner until his death...
...things in Prison occur in private. It is an environment almost without internal secrets. The pressure that was being applied to break George Jackson was well-known within San Quentin and throughout the California penal system. Equally well known was the fact that Jackson had not been broken, and more importantly, that he had not had his capacity to reason and to love destroyed in self-defense...