Word: prison
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While Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh continued to cool his heels in a federal prison, refusing to talk to authorities, law-enforcement officials were growing frustrated in their nationwide manhunt for the elusive second suspect, John Doe No. 2. Federal agents raided a small Missouri motel to capture and question a pair of drifters whose travels before and after the bombing paralleled McVeigh's. But the two men were quickly released for lack of evidence, the parallel taste in small towns and cheap motels an apparent coincidence. In Oklahoma City rescuers ended their search for bodies and survivors...
Justice Department officials privately applauded Carey's climb to the Teamsters helm, viewing him as the union's best chance for reform and publicly promoting him as almost squeaky clean. Four of the union's past eight presidents had been indicted on criminal charges; three of them went to prison. In 1989 the union finally settled an epic racketeering suit in which the feds accused its leadership of forging a "devil's pact" with the Mafia. Under the settlement, the Teamsters agreed to allow the members to elect their president freely. Since then, Lacey and his team have booted...
...government's program to rehabilitate the union. The man who has made that allegation to the FBI is Alfonso D'Arco, a former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family who is today the government's best and most protected Mafia witness. Many leading mobsters have gone to prison on his word. As for D'Arco's general credibility, Donald North, one of the FBI's chief organized-crime investigators, told New York magazine in january that "in thousands of hours of conversation, we have never caught him in a contradiction." Lacey concluded that D'Arco, who never met Carey...
...Contract also proposes cutting crime prevention and drug treatment programs designed to keep people out of prison, using the money saved to build new prisons. America already leads the world in the number of citizens it incarcerates, and a disproportionate number (almost half) of these inmates are Black. The criminal justice system is obviously not a level playing field. For example, Blacks and whites use illegal drugs at the same rate, but Blacks are far more likely to be arrested and imprisoned for such behavior...
...really identified with any issues in the State House--rent control, welfare reform, prison reform--things that you would think, given his constituents, he would be interested [in]," he says...