Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...climbs into the ring, McDoniels is cheered on by his buddies. "I got 250 on you, Randy!" yells someone in the crowd. But Slaymaker takes the bout more seriously. Recently released from Arizona State Prison, where he served five years for manslaughter-he killed a man in an unscheduled barroom brawl over a pool game-Slaymaker kisses his friend McDoniels on the cheek before helping him into the ring. To no avail. A minute into the first round, the wild-swinging, grabbing McDoniels is in trouble. His opponent, Tom Salas, 30, steadily moves in, jabbing, and connects with a left...
...Billie Sol Estes was paroled from a federal prison after serving six years for amassing a $ 150 million business empire through fraudulent land deals and nonexistent fertilizer tanks. He went to work in fundamentalist Abilene, Texas, as an overseer on his brother's cattle ranch and as a truck dispatcher for a petroleum company. Estes regularly assured his parole officer that, as required by the terms of his release, he was abstaining from business deals. He was happily working as a manual laborer, he said, and had "even washed trucks and fixed flats...
...defraud the Government, a blanket charge covering tax evasion and mail and wire fraud. He faces a $5,000 fine and up to five years in jail. Yet, through the same sort of sharp bargaining that made him his fortune, Estes is expected to be sent back to prison for only a couple of years at most...
...framed a bill that does not seek to create a police state. The bill is simply so large that repressive laws can be created without evil intent. In one such oversight, the Congressional Research Service reported that S. 1437's determinate sentencing provisions would drastically increase the number of prison years servec. No one knew that would be the result of that one short section of the 800-page S.1437, and legislators did not have the chance to debate harsh penalties as a policy issue...
Beacon Brass Quintet--Music of Palestrina, Aram, Joplin, Dahland and others. At Walpole State Prison Walpole. Free. Call 353-3345 for details...