Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Life in many attitude-adjustment schools is closer to prison than prep school. Facilities are spartan, discipline strict. At Tranquility Bay, students are supervised from wake-up at 6:30 a.m. to lights-out at 9:30 p.m. Punishment for violations of the 54-page student rule book range from loss of merit points to "observation placement"--meaning a student must lie on the tile floor of his room all day, not sitting up except for meals and bathroom breaks. And parents sign a contract allowing the school to use handcuffs, mace and stun guns on their children. "Restraints...
...illustration--a picture of two blackstudents with prison-style bars superimposed overthem--prompted the students, backed by the BlackStudents Association (BSA), to sue The Crimson for$480,000. The case eventually settled out ofcourt...
SACRAMENTO: Theodore Kaczynski made his deal with the government, pleading guilty to the crimes of the Unabomber in exchange for life in prison without parole...
...cohort of supporters to come to her defense at the 11th hour, including Deborah Thornton's brother and Jerry Lynn Dean's sister, the homicide detective who put her on death row, several former prosecutors, televangelist Pat Robertson and thousands of citizens. Her staunchest supporter is Dana Brown, the prison chaplain she met and married two years ago--a relationship that has never been consummated, even by a kiss, because death-row inmates are not allowed contact with visitors. Says Tucker's attorney, George ("Mac") Secrest: "If ever there was a case for commutation, this...
...fondness for torturing confessions out of the rebels. Sitting in his family's small apartment in downtown Pristina, Alban Neziri, 23, coolly, methodically narrates his harrowing story. He says he was arrested last February as a suspected founding member of the K.L.A. and during his 10 months in prison was repeatedly tortured. "At the beginning, they beat me with plastic batons on the bottom of my feet," Neziri says. "That lasted 15 to 20 minutes. After that, they began to hit me on my kidneys. They do that with the point of the baton. After that, they began...