Word: prison
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...Singleton had voluntarily taken the drugs until last summer, and when he stopped,? prison officials decided to forcibly medicate him.? That puts the state of Arkansas in a very dicey box. "In the majority of similar cases across the country, courts do not allow insane people to be put to death," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne.? "Nor have courts upheld the right of states to medicate prisoners so that they will be sane enough to execute...
...stomach for compromise. In school at age 10, he wrote an essay saying that his ambition in life was to serve in the I.R.A. His parents were proud. By 14, he was frequently detained by police for running guns. By 16, he was old enough to be sent to prison, charged with weapons possession and membership in Fianna, the junior branch of the illegal I.R.A. He served eight years. Now McConville, 38, wears a tie, runs an antidrug program while toiling on a master's degree in computer science. He is still active in the republican movement, albeit...
...number of the key men--and some of the women--who negotiated the settlement inside a mundane office building in Belfast shared McConville's journey through violence, prison and now political accommodation. In the 1970s Gusty Spence, a senior member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, an illegal Protestant paramilitary group, was so famous that after he was sentenced to prison for murder, tea towels with his picture on them were sold on the streets of Belfast. "We exorcised our ghosts in prison," says Spence, who is on the negotiating team of the Progressive Unionist Party. "We were self-questioning...
Brother Bill doesn't subscribe to tough-love theories. He believes that gangsters will not change their ways simply through fear of prison or even the carrot of education or employment--but only by viewing themselves as under the light of a divine presence. He doesn't preach; he loves. His vulnerability, his willingness to put his life on the line, his unconditional offering of acceptance and forgiveness and, yes, love are a constant source of astonishment for men and boys weaned on hate and rejection. "I think he's an angel," says a 22-year-old Vice Lord...
...correspondent William Dowell. "Once a dissident leaves China, they lose all influence back home," says Dowell. "The offer of release into exile sparks a huge emotional crisis for many dissidents, who feel that choosing to leave is like choosing to give up. Some even opt instead to stay in prison...