Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven top Cali barons. However, Washington officials grumbled about Samper's hesitancy in pushing for harsher antitrafficking and money-laundering legislation, and they complained volubly this month when Jose Santacruz Londono, one of the top three Cali dons, managed a suspect's escape from a maximum-security prison...
...hipper, less political audience might conclude that he resembles a hardbitten David Bowie. That star quality was recognized early, in the communist German Democratic Republic where Hasselbach was born. In 1987 and 1988 he was twice jailed by the G.D.R. for publicly insulting the government. Pumped up in prison with the Nazi ideology and war stories of a former Gestapo officer who was a fellow inmate, he returned to the streets to establish the "Movement of the 30th of January," so-called to commemorate the date in 1933 when Hitler took power...
EDUCATORS WHO WORK IN CORRECTIONal institutions are reaching beyond the walls and making a major difference in the lives of men and women who are being educated while incarcerated. What happens to offenders when they are in prison will eventually contribute to an increase or decrease in crime once they are again on the outside. Fortunately, the correctional educators are succeeding. Education is the ultimate weapon against crime, and the public and politicians must embrace this. ERROL CRAIG SULL, President Correctional Education Co. Buffalo, New York...
...been titled "A Teenage Time Bomb Explodes," because the present is just a shadow of what lies ahead. According to a recent poll, more than 12% of today's teenagers (and 40% of those in high-crime neighborhoods) carry a weapon for protection. Unlike post-Vietnam criminals, who feared prison, police and peers and took care to avoid arrest and notoriety, this new teenage horde from hell kills, maims and terrorizes merely to become known or even sometimes for no reason at all. These teens have no fear of dying and no concept of living. DANIEL R. COBURN Morristown...
Speaking at the Gutman Center, Butterfield told the story of Willie Bosket, the murderer who allegedly committed 2,000 crimes as a youth and is now in prison for life...