Word: prisoners
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...short and bitter for Stephen H. Elliott '71. A one day trial in Concord last week. A plea of guilty. And a sentence the next day of five years in a Federal prison...
...month later he quietly refused induction at the Manchester, N. H. Induction Center. "On June 12 a Federal marshal walked up to our door," as his mother remembers, "and arrested Steve." Elliott is now in the Allentown Federal Prison Camp in Pennsylvania...
Every prophet-leader has his period of withdrawal and retreat. Ho's came when he got out of a Hong Kong prison with an aggravated case of TB. He spent the next four years (1934-38) in Russia, savoring recuperation as a "scholar recluse." In 1941, he slipped back into his homeland. For him, the return marked a kind of reincarnation, and after setting up the League for Vietnamese Independence (nicknamed the Viet Minh), he renamed himself Ho Chi Minh ("Ho who enlightens...
...great majority of those awaiting execution are Negroes-a proportion that has held steady ever since prison records were first kept. Between 1930 and the present, 2,066 blacks have been put to death, against 1,751 whites. Among the commonest capital charges against Negroes, especially in the South, has been rape, which is extremely difficult to prove. Yet rape convictions have accounted for executions of 405 Negroes compared with 50 of whites...
Citizen & State. Asked by the court in 1962 to bring before it the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, prisoner No. 003826 at the Florida State Prison, Fortas, even as a private lawyer, was instrumental in shaping the decision that guaranteed any indigent defendant a court-appointed lawyer. Gideon was more than a case; it became an article of faith. As a member of the court, Fortas has supported other decisions that have radically broadened the rights of defendants. "We're not just dealing with the criminal and society," he once told an attorney who was arguing for the police point...