Word: prison
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...noise. It was a sound precept. And one that "the Chairman," as he is known, no doubt reflected upon during the eight weeks he spent in a Chicago federal courtroom watching the jury listen to secretly recorded conversations through which he ran his drug empire from an Illinois state prison...
...portraits of the gang emerged vividly from tapes recorded through wafer-thin listening devices in prison visitors' badges and from the testimony of fellow gang members who took the witness stand in exchange for reduced prison sentences. The first portrait was of a narcotics empire that virtually controlled the Illinois state prison system. Hoover held jailhouse meetings, dictated memos and issued orders into his cell phone. He wore $400 alligator boots, dined on specially prepared food and splashed himself with expensive cologne. Payoffs to corrections officers permitted his bodyguards to arm themselves with shanks and bedposts. At one prison near...
...give him the prison time. How do we know he won't decide he knew someone else's 14-year-old daughter in another lifetime and decide...to have sex with...
...power in the Army's ranks; of 18 counts of rape; in Aberdeen, Md. Rejecting Simpson's defense that the sex was consensual, the six-person military jury sent an unequivocal message that any sexual relations between superiors and subordinates constitute rape. Simpson faces up to life in prison...
...prepares to renew the debate on mandatory minimum sentencing, a new study by the RAND Drug Policy Research Center says such sentences are far less effective at reducing drug use and drug-related crime than normal law enforcement and treatment programs. The reason is the high cost of incarcerating prisoners for long periods of time. According to the study, $1 million spent on conventional law enforcement, including more arrests of drug dealers, confiscations, prosecutions and standard-length prison terms, would eliminate 70 percent more crimes against people than spending the same amount on enforcing mandatory minimums. The reason mandatory minims...