Word: prison
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Intelligent white people are so caught up in the idea of combating crime in post-Cold War America that they are unable to see that their support of the prison industrial complex and the virtually all-white police force is the greatest threat to "quality of life" in the nation...
...fact that prisons take one-third of African American males by the age 20 signifies the urgency to understand and then address both the socio-economic difficulties faced in our society and the nature of our largely unquestioned prison system. So, too, does the fact that almost 15 percent of U.S. citizens live in poverty. The passionate efforts of Harvard students last year for an ethnic studies curriculum, as well the daunting success of California's Proposition 209 last November should suffice as reason for sustained and intensified student dialogue about ethnic studies and affirmative action. For society and politics...
...claimed that Thomas Paine was an "18th century American writer." He may have died in America, but he was born in England. He may have written Common Sense in America, but he wrote The Rights of Man in England, and he finished The Age of Reason in prison in France. I admire America, but you don't own everything! IAN GLOVER-JAMES London...
RELEASED. WEBSTER HUBBELL, 49, longtime Clinton friend and former Justice Department official; from a federal halfway house; after serving more than a year in prison for tax evasion and mail fraud. Hubbell is still linked to continuing investigations of Whitewater and Democratic fund-raising activities...
...busy downtown streets at speeds up to 85 mph, Makharadze had careened into a line of cars waiting at a stoplight on Connecticut Avenue, setting off a fatal chain reaction. If found guilty of manslaughter, the 35-year-old diplomat could spend the next 30 years in a U.S. prison, with the possibility of an additional 40 year penalty for injuries caused to others. In a move no less damaging to Makharadze's future career, if any, Tblisi may ask that the sentence be served in Georgia instead...