Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accurate numbers tell how many women took part in the slaughter. One gauge may be Kigali prison. Of 10,000 inmates, all are men and boys except for the 342 women and their 116 children too young to be sent away...
Like everyone in the prison, the women have been accused of genocide but none has had a formal court hearing due to the shambles that mass murder and war left of Rwanda's justice system...
Euphanasie Mukaremera, 36, is head trustee of one prison section, a former food storage area where 87 women and 16 children have barely enough room to lie down. She gave birth in prison 10 months ago to her fifth child, a boy she named Innocent...
...full moon was out, a couple of nights before Halloween 1993, when Marshall Chapman and her band, the Love Slaves, played at the Tennessee State Prison for Women. That might explain the kindred electricity between the veteran bar balladeer and her captive audience--women doing time for the kinds of misbehavior people write country tunes about. The resultant live album, It's About Time...(Margaritaville Records), is sad, strong stuff, and may be the most potent peek into the connection between lock-up desperation and good country blues since Johnny Cash played Folsom Prison...
...announces to a boozing boyfriend, "I'm gonna take off my kid gloves/ Put on some boxing gloves/ And knock the living daylights out of you." But she's not all whine and neurosis; the set traces an arc of anger, resolve and transfiguration. As Chapman explains to the prisoners, with an I've-been-saved smile in her voice, she finally did find true love--with a prison doctor...