Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When the first two hundred letters came, the guards gave me back my clothes," reads a quotation attributed to a released prisoner of conscience from the Dominican Republic. "Then the next two hundred letters came, and the prison director came to see me...The letters kept coming and coming: three thousand of them. The President was informed. The letters still kept arriving, and the President called the prison and told them...
When one of their pranks misfires, the four are sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys, and we hear the doors of a new genre, the prison picture, clang shut. A group of guards led by Sean Nokes (Kevin Bacon at his slimiest) subject them to beatings and gang rapes. These ordeals are discreetly handled by Levinson, who makes us fully aware of their horrors without becoming graphically realistic...
...most poignant and telling of the stories is the one about a young man whom Kramer calls Peter Schmidt, a drifting East German who tried to escape when the Wall still existed, was caught and imprisoned but was eventually sold to the West (the East often traded political prisoners for hard currency). But he is ill-suited to the ambitious, aggressive life in the West. As Kramer writes, "Peter says that maybe the role of being East German, the pity of being East German, is that you are always at your best, and your clearest, standing at a wall...
...black ghetto. This is both inspiration and folly, redoubled because he encourages his 17-year-old daughter, who also knows Tae Kwon Do, to help out. The neighborhood's young black drug dealers are pragmatists, eager to learn the fighting discipline for self-protection when they are sent to prison. Devlin, an idealist trying shakily not to unravel, commits too much of himself. And despite his efforts, gunfire sweeps through the streets. People...
...They can't send us to prison for serving our country," Mixner said...