Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the Startford one, has skimped on the cross-gartering. In proper cross-gartering, it is not enough to enclose just the kneecap; the crisscrossing should go all the way down the leg to the foot, as in the well-known 18th-century Malvolio painting by Ramberg. In the Prison Scene it is poor staging that allows us to see only Malvolio's hands sticking through a basement window. Still, Rabb's is a portrayal to cherish, right up to the series of glares he aims at one person after another when, unenlightened, he voices a final threat and departs...
...pictures show a concentration camp on the Tvertsa River (a tributary of the Volga) near Torzhok, 130 miles northwest of Moscow. The 18th century Borisoglebsky Monastery, with its church and tower-once a tourist attraction-has been converted into a prison for convicts who are marched into town to do heavy construction work...
...cases, the court refused to hear challenges to court-imposed limits on what participants in a criminal trial could say to newsmen. In three others, it decided not to review orders to newsmen to reveal their sources in ordinary civil cases. Two weeks ago, the court denied special prison access to San Francisco TV station KQED, specifically telling the press that it had no more right of access than the general public...
...Virginia, David Truong and Roland Humphrey were sentenced to 15 years in prison, five weeks after they were convicted of espionage, stealing government documents and feeding them to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The two men admitted to stealing the documents, but maintained that their goal was to help normalize relations between the U.S. and the nation we bombed, defoliated and depopulated during the '60s and early '70s. True, they could have gotten life sentences--but the fact that they were convicted at all demonstrates that there are serious problems in the federal government...
After a 1975 suicide at Little Greystone, the innovative San Francisco public television station KQED sent a reporter and a cameraman to film conditions there. County Sheriff Thomas Houchins turned them away. But after the station sued to gain entry, Houchins announced a program of regular monthly prison tours open to the public, including reporters. There were a few catches: no cameras, no tape recorders, no interviews with inmates and no access at all to the Little Greystone building. The station pressed its suit, and a federal district court ordered the sheriff to grant the press wider access...