Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those odd confluences that keep cults and conspiracy theorists percolating, the day after the bodies were found Charles Manson was up for and denied parole for the ninth time at Corcoran State Prison. "These monks that just took their heads in San Diego," Manson noted at his hearing, "they're way behind the times." But cult experts disagree. What happened in San Diego, they say, was unprecedented. James Tabor, who teaches religion at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was involved in the last desperate attempts to communicate with David Koresh by radio broadcast, says, "This group...
...writing an article in a Hong Kong newspaper about the absence of a free press in China, Chinese dissident Wan Dan was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison, Lee told the crowd...
PLEADED GUILTY. CAPTAIN DERRICK ROBERTSON, 31, to consensual sex, sodomy, adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer; in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Robertson, the first officer sentenced in the Aberdeen sex scandal, was booted out of the Army, and will serve four months in prison...
FORT MEYERS, Florida: It's been a bad couple of days for the bad guys. First, in an update of the old file-baked-in-a-cake ploy, Florida prisoner Gregory WIlliamson got out of jail when his girlfriend faxed a faked pardon to prison authorities. He was caught a week later when he couldn?t resist trying the same trick to spring his former cellmate. Apparently Williamson and his girlfriend were planning to go national: When they were arrested in her apartment, police found computers and disks containing official seals for state offices across the country. Meanwhile, Memphis teenager...
...Mutulu Shakur, ex-husband of Tupac Shakur's mother, says the FBI is trying to create a "rift" between East Coast and West Coast rappers. "Whether we accept it or not, the rap groups are a movement," says Mutulu, who is serving a 60-year sentence in a federal prison in Atlanta for his role in an armored-car robbery in 1981. "The wrath of the government has come to descend on the rap industry...