Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teen pulled out of the bag. After breaking down the door of the steak house with a sledgehammer, officers said they found marijuana there and arrested Morris. Based on the sworn testimony of officer Steven Brown, Morris was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to three years in prison...
...exchange of cash or drugs inside the shop, no brown paper bag and no drug buy. Last March, Brown, a 13-year veteran on the force, pleaded guilty to federal charges involving 25 cases, including the illegal search of Morris' steak house. After nearly 2 1/2 years in prison, Morris was released. While he has his freedom, peace of mind is a little harder to come by. "It takes a lot away from you," says the 53-year-old father of five, now a self-employed carpenter. "I can't understand why these people can do anything they want...
That won't stop politicians from experimenting to make prison life as awful as the constitution will allow. In Tennessee, where overcrowding led to riots and a federal-court takeover of the state prison system 10-years ago, the legislature recently got rid of ice-cream machines and cable TV. Lawmakers there have also approved a proposal to amend the state constitution, which currently requires Tennessee to have "safe and comfortable prisons.'' They want to drop the word "comfortable...
...five women found Illinois Congressman Mel Reynolds guilty on 12 counts of sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse, solicitation of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Translation: he had sex with an underage campaign worker and tried to derail the ensuing investigation. Reynolds faces at least four years in prison. At week's end his colleagues in the House were urging him to resign...
Certainly that describes James' penal philosophy, unveiled in April, when Alabama became the nation's first state to restore the prison chain gang, putatively as an "experiment." Last week, judging the experiment successful, the James administration began strapping leg irons every day on 160 prisoners at the Limestone Correctional Facility so they could be sent to break rocks with sledgehammers...