Word: prison
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...alone. The hottest development in criminal justice is a fast-spreading impulse to eliminate anything that might make it easier to endure a sentence behind bars. Figuring that it makes no sense to use taxpayer dollars to help criminals pump up, several states have got rid of prison body-building equipment. Others have begun charging inmates for medications and infirmary visits that used to be free. One of the most popular restrictions is a ban on popular in-cell possessions like the one now in effect in Mississippi, where convicts are forbidden to have their own televisions, record players, radios...
...transcripts obtained by TIME, for instance, he tells Martha Lorrie Diaz, a friend of McKinny's, that women cops are ineffectual "because they don't do anything. They don't go out and initiate a contact with some 6-ft. 5-in. nigger that's been in prison for seven years pumping weights." And in a twist almost unbelievable even in Simpsonland, he discusses-using derogatory language-run-ins with Ito's wife, police captain Margaret York, which suddenly raised the issue of whether Ito should continue to preside over the trial. In the words of a key prosecution source...
...return for cooperation with the prosecution. Jim McDougal has always taken a feisty stand, but his health is poor and he might theoretically find cooperating an appealing alternative to a stretch behind bars. (Almost all counts of the latest indictment are punishable by up to five years in prison.) TIME has learned from attorney Bobby McDaniel that his client Susan McDougal has refused an offer from Starr to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in return for her cooperation. The Administration is now cautiously optimistic that barring another indictee's turning state's evidence, the worst is over...
...PRISON FOR A LIFETIME...
...suspect himself added to the excitement, balking at the interview at the last minute because he did not want family members answering questions about him. Jones' associate, Robert Nigh Jr., hurried to the El Reno prison near Oklahoma City and persuaded Tim McVeigh to let Cole proceed. McVeigh may have relented, in part, because he trusted the correspondent's work; he had answered a set of written questions from Cole the week before that resulted in an exclusive TIME interview...