Word: prison
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SENTENCED. LYLE MENENDEZ, 28, and ERIK MENENDEZ, 26, to life in prison without parole; for the 1989 murder of their wealthy parents; in Los Angeles...
...family. The reports point to the mounting pressures on the leader and increasing dissatisfaction among the Iraqi people, says TIME Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe. "Under the circumstances, there is a lot of tension within the society," Marlowe says. "People are starving to death in this enormous prison state. The only way out of the country is to drive 12 hours across the desert to Jordan. And Saddam keeps a hangman on duty 24 hours a day." Marlowe also cautions that there are at least three reported coup attempts each year, many of which are unfounded rumors floated by Saddam...
...President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with the U.S. Army, was exposed to Agent Orange, developed multiple sclerosis and died in 1980. Gloria used to send her father tapes of her singing when he was away. He once sent back a tape with a message...
...that would further raise the price of three strikes. A Rand Corp. researcher who determined that California faces an annual increase in prison costs of $5.5 billion under the law also analyzed four social programs and found three of them far more effective in reducing crime. "If you're going to spend a million dollars, you prevent three times as much crime if you put it into parent training than if you put it into building more cells," said Peter Greenwood, the study's director...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Federal authorities made a second round of charges against Ted Kaczynski Friday as the 54-year-old suspected Unabomber was indicted for three 1980s blasts in Michigan, Tennessee, and Utah. Kaczynski would face up to 120 years in prison if convicted, but the Justice Department says it will not prosecute until a verdict is reached on current charges of transporting, mailing and using explosives in four lethal attacks. Kaczynski has pleaded not guilty in a Sacramento court to the previous indictments, which alone could lead to the death penalty. It's likely that additional charges will come forward...