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Kudirat Abiola was no ordinary mother. For the two years before her death, she campaigned tirelessly for the release of her husband Chief Moshood Abiola from solitary confinement in a Nigerian prison. His crime: declaring himself Nigeria's President in 1994 after leading the vote in the June 1993 elections. Instead, the country's military leader, General Sani Abacha, who had seized power shortly after the nullified elections, imprisoned Abiola and, quite possibly, ordered Kudirat's execution...
...pedigree of prejudice often leads through prison. Berry and King served time on the same burglary charge. It was in prison that they met the third suspect, Lawrence Russell Brewer, 31. Says Bill Hale of the Texas Human Rights Commission: "If someone has a predisposition to racism, it will be reinforced in prison." King was involved in a racial disturbance between Anglo and Hispanic prisoners in 1995. The Houston Chronicle reported last week that he sent letters from prison proclaiming race hatred and allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-supremacist gang founded in California's San Quentin State Prison...
Although there were stars, food and music aplenty at the premiere of The Farm: Angola, USA, something was missing: none of the featured players were able to attend. Incarceration will do that to you. But the celebs who saw the film, shot entirely in America's largest prison (situated on a former slave plantation in Louisiana), gushed with praise. "Where can I get a subscription to the Angolite?" asked Anne Heche about the prison's magazine. Warden BURL CAIN, left, gave the film crew unprecedented access to all areas of his Big House, and the film's director, Jonathan Stack...
...when he was still struggling to find his voice as a playwright, Tom Williams, 27, read a newspaper account of four inmates at a Pennsylvania prison who died after being left to roast inside a superheated chamber dubbed "Klondike." The story spurred him to expand a one-act play he had written about prison life to a full-length drama he titled Not About Nightingales. Williams entered the play in a contest for young dramatists held by the famed Group Theatre. (Since he was two years over the age limit, he lied about his birth date and signed with...
...Cacheris knows that in many cases, a deal beats a court fight hands down. Beneficiaries of his bargaining skills include Fawn Hall, the former secretary to Oliver North who won immunity in exchange for testimony, and Ames, who faced a possible death sentence until Cacheris secured a life-in-prison plea bargain. But Cacheris is also a natural in the courtroom, "a maestro," as a fellow lawyer puts it, who cross-examines with laserlike ferocity and charms the jury with wit. ("My client is a fool, an ass, a boor!" he once thundered. "But he is not a cold-blooded...