Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier this year introduced revisions to an existing law called the Communications Decency Act. The idea was to extend regulations written to govern the dial-a-porn industry into the computer networks. The bill proposed to outlaw obscene material and impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years on anyone who knowingly makes "indecent" material available to children under...
...most blacks to take the apology in good faith. African Americans are by nature a forgiving people, says Lincoln. So much so that many of them, including several prominent Baptist ministers in Harlem, threw a lavish ceremony last week to welcome ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson home from prison, despite howls of outrage from black feminists who charged that the much hyped ceremony was tantamount to enshrining brutality toward women. If blacks harbor such forbearance for a convicted rapist who has yet to repent his crime, it stands to reason that they will forgive fellow Christians who confess their sins...
...states have undertaken serious discussion of chain gangs for several months. Among the first to publicly endorse chain gangs was Gov. Fob Edwards of Alabama. The recently-elected governor appeared on national news broadcasts to outline his plan, already partly implemented, for reinstatement of chain gangs in the Alabama prison system...
...that labor also be turned to manufacturing toys and garments that a scrupulous nation such as ours would refuse to buy from an exploitative nation such as, say, the People's Republic of China? The working conditions on the chain gang are hardly better than those in China's prison sweatshops, and the compensation of the laborers is hardly any better. We began by opening trade with China, but perhaps we should stop short of importing their techniques for punishment...
...federal judge sentenced Francisco Martin Duran to 40 years in prison. Duran was convicted of trying to kill President Clinton when hesprayed the White House with bullets last October. Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence for Duran, who had argued that, in a fit of paranoid schizophrenia, he thought he had been chosen to shoot and kill an evil "mist" that was enveloping the White House. U.S. District Judge Charles Richey said the sentence, which includes no chance of parole, was sufficient both to punish him and to discourage others from similar attacks. Duran, sober and contrite in court...