Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Earl Ray's escape reached our offices than some half a dozen correspondents were sent into action, and the editors in New York began preparations to put Ray on the cover. In Atlanta, Larry Woods immediately chartered a plane to get to the remote Brushy Mountain state prison, while Joe Kane and Jef McAllister of our Washington bureau drove all night to reach the scene. As they covered the story on the ground, a TIME photographer was airborne in a helicopter to shoot pictures of the search. Houston Bureau Chief George Taber went to Atlanta to talk with...
...They wouldn't have me in a maximum-security prison if I wasn't interested in getting...
...plot was classic in its simplicity?and its initial success. It began while some 200 prisoners were idling away their recreation time after dinner in the yard of the Brushy Mountain state prison. The beige-painted stone fortress, 40 years old and showing its age, is half hidden in the rugged Cumberland Mountains, 40 miles north of Knoxville, Tenn. No one had ever escaped for long from Brushy Mountain, a "maximum-security" penitentiary filled with hard cases?convicted murderers and other violent criminals...
...depositors lost money on the deals, Erdman, as the bank's president, was clapped in a Basel jail along with six other officers. Ten months later he was permitted to post bail, and left Switzerland-presumably forever. He was later tried in absentia and given an eight-year prison sentence that he faces if he ever returns...
...celebrated case: James Michael Curley. who was jailed for mail fraud in 1947 during his final term as Boston's mayor, was paid his salary while in prison, and emerged to resume his duties...