Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken the back of this ring," said Queens assistant district attorney Michael Mansfield...
...arrested last June while attempting to legally visit China. After a four hour trial in July, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason...
They could now all be illegal subjects of discussion or display on the Internet--punishable by a maximum fine of $250,000 and two years in prison...
...deals with deregulating competition in the newspaper, television, cable and telephone businesses. But our focus will be the bill's indecency provision. Pushed through congress by a small faction of conservative Republicans, with Representative Henry J. Hyde at the vanguard, the provision mandates fines and prison terms for those who make "indecent" material available to minors. Even Newt Gingrich did not support this measure. The flaws inherent in this bill become apparent during a straightforward examination of the phrase make indecent material available to minors...
...former storage room in the basement of Quincy House, is not an ideal space for a production: it's difficult to light, oddly shaped, and the ceiling is only about eight feet off the ground. Southerland used it well, though. The audience was put inside the cage, facing the prison cell, flanked on the right by the captain's quarter's, and on the left, through a chain link fence, the hallway of the hold. The actors also walked behind the audience. There was a definite sense that you were in the ship (well, if you can truly suspend disbelief...