Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picking up cans and bottles along the highways. Says the judge, an eleven-year veteran of the bench in rural Woodford County. Ill., "The courts have become the parents of last resort. I was trying to get young people to change their ways before they got sent to prison." But the American Civil Liberties Union complained to the Illinois Courts Commission that his sentences were violating the defendants' civil rights. Agreeing, the commission suspended Harrod for 30 days...
Even some prison authorities concede life in their jails has been nasty, brutish and sometimes short. Says Juan Antonio Antolin, 31, who became director of Santa Marta seven months ago: "This was a pesthole beyond belief. It was run by drug traffickers, not the guards." Antolin claims a Mexican drug peddler offered him $10,000 a week to allow heroin to be smuggled into Santa Marta; when he refused, an attempt was made to kill...
...troops in the public beating of 45 thieves in the capital's central square. Three died, and the brutally wounded survivors were put on display for six hours in the broiling sun. A year earlier, to celebrate Mother's Day, Bokassa ordered that all mothers in prison be released-and that all those who had been accused of matricide be executed. Two were. Ever dissatisfied with his Cabinet, Bokassa customarily assumes the portfolios of ministers he has dismissed from office; he has held as many as ten at one time...
...also happy? Yes and no. He finds that adulation is a kind of prison, his young fans' love not far removed from hostility. When he was shooting Saturday Night in Brooklyn, the teen-agers would try to coax him out of his trailer as they might a caged dog-by rocking it back and forth...
Dickens meant every word of this and desperately wanted it to be true. Part of him knew better. Johnson's biography resurrects the sad child that Charles became, forced at age twelve to work in a grimy London warehouse while his father languished in prison for debt. Although his servitude lasted only about four months, Dickens never forgot his feelings of abandonment and humiliation; he never confided the experience to his wife. Equally painful was his adolescent-and unrequited-love for a young girl teasingly above him in station...