Word: prison
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...delays in salary payments and an overall sense that Russia has been humbled have created powerful anti-Yeltsin sentiments. "Six years ago, I was ready to genuflect before Yeltsin," said the colonel. "Now I would just love to lock him in handcuffs and drag him off to Lefortovo prison. If I could...
...unsavory in death as he was in life, mass murderer Richard Speck has come back to haunt the Illinois department of corrections. Last week state legislators packed a hearing room to view a two-hour tape of Speck cavorting with his prison lover. Purportedly filmed in 1988, three years before Speck's death, the tape shows the two inmates snorting cocaine, rolling marijuana joints, brandishing a roll of $100 bills and engaging in oral sex. "If they only knew how much fun I was having," Speck deadpans to the camera, "they would turn me loose...
...tape, obtained by a Chicago TV journalist, is the third in a series of recent embarrassments for the corrections department. Last August a drug conspiracy was traced to an inmate at another facility; earlier this month, several guards at a women's prison were dismissed for having sex with inmates. Now legislators are demanding an end to the "culture of complicity" that has been allowed to flourish between prison guards and Illinois' 38,000 inmates. "This is the type of spark that is required to get something going," says Illinois state representative Peter Roskam. "My hunch is there...
...anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, Brusca was taken into custody while watching a movie about Falcone's death. Brusca allegedly set off a roadside explosion which killed Falcone, his wife and three police agents as their cars sped along a highway near Palermo. He was taken to a Palermo prison amid cheering crowds of police officers. "The police were absolutely joyous last night," says TIME's Greg Burke. "A victory celebration broke out when he was brought in, especially since he had killed three of their own." Brusca is also charged with the murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo...
...Dole position, he repeated his opposition to the antiabortion plank in the party platform. Though Dole and Wilson (and their wives) were once close, the Senator now finds the Governor occasionally confusing. Wilson recently took Dole on a California trip that began at the gas chamber at California State Prison, San Quentin, and ended at Richard Nixon's grave. Dole aides are still ridiculing it as the "Wilson Death Tour...