Word: prison
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...investigator, working with a New York City bomb-squad detective, found the vital shard of evidence that broke the World Trade Center bombing case. Agents from the bureau's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently took down a murderous street gang and sent a dozen members to prison, many for life terms. And last month Charlotte agents played a central role in capturing carjackers believed to have killed an Oregon businesswoman, the kind of case special agent in charge Paul Lyon sees as the bureau's "salvation." He feels Congress and the public have turned their back on ATF, even...
...repair business and had associated openly with John Boyle, head of an armored-car company who was under indictment for stealing more than $4 million, much of it in coins entrusted to his company. (Boyle later pleaded no contest to all charges and was sentenced to 38 months in prison...
...Shackles of Humanity" (editorial, June 30, 1995) Daniel Altman presents an occasionally passionate, though largely melodramatic and plainly biased attack of the prison work reforms which a number of the Southern states lately have begun to introduce. As regards the most simple errors of this editorial, Altman inaccurately reports the name of Alabama's governor, Feb James, and clumsily insults the entire South with his depracatory recitation of white Southern dialect, African-American dialect, as once presented in the works of white Southern authors, or the broken English of Yiddish-speaking immigrants, as formerly derided in anti-Semitic media, arguably...
...because the school of argumentation presented here directly descends from the antebellum crusade against slavery. An institution which in its diminution of the human spirit ranks among the most sordid legacies of world history, plantation slavery subjugated everyone, white and Black, within a racially divided and potentially explosive social prison. Whereas contemporary prison labor specifically punishes the guilty for the crimes which they committed, slavery indiscriminately shackled the innocent for having fallen into the slave-trader's custody...
Although Altman alludes to Nazi and Soviet death-labor camps--extreme examples of human inhumanity--the idealist editor fails to describe the nature of contemporary chain gang labor. Instead, Altman compares the disease-ridden prison camps of early 20th century America to the most horrible places of extermination know to recorded history. Alabama prisoners who today collect waste from the roadsides, and who suffer through heat, cold and embarrassment, face only the indignity which they brought upon themselves, rather then the certain and horrible death which millions of innocents endured merely because they were born. Mr. Altman, comparisons such...