Word: prisoners
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...Reason: Colino was fired from Intelsat, and his old job is currently held by Dean Burch, the former Federal Communications Commission chairman. Most crushing of all, Colino faced U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell in Washington last week and was sentenced to six years in a minimum-security federal prison after pleading guilty to helping defraud Intelsat of $4.8 million. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay $865,000 in restitution to Intelsat. "I have no excuses," said a pale and stooped Colino, who asked Gesell for a "chance to demonstrate that I can still lead a productive life...
...film opens, Daddy (Johnny Hallyday) is away on business, or as the film chooses to call it, "in the hospital losing his spots." In what is probably the greatest shock of his life, son finds out in school that mama has lied. Daddy, it seems, is really in prison (gasp...
OSHA's rules will remain ineffective until they are backed by prosecutorial zeal and judicial commitment. Since Reagan took office, the Justice Department has brought to trial only one of the 24 cases OSHA has recommended for prosecution. Although laws provide for prison sentences of up to six months, "nobody has ever gone to jail for violating safety standards," says Joseph Kinney, director of the Chicago-based National Safe Workplace Institute. He adds, "A stretch in the slammer could have a powerful deterrent effect...
Despite the high-court ban on the ceremony, police, fearful of provoking a riot, did not interfere. They did, however, arrest Pushpendra Singh, the youth who lit the pyre, and four other in-laws, charging them with murder. The maximum penalty: life in prison. Authorities were investigating whether the bride's in-laws, who by tradition would have been required to care for her the rest of her life, had pressured her into the act. Kanwar's father, saying he believed that she acted under "divine orders," took consolation from the fact that his daughter had become a devi (goddess...
...decision to put the suspects in Louvain outraged convicts at other Belgian prisons. Hundreds of inmates hurled stones and set fires at the overcrowded Forest and St. Gilles jails in Brussels. If convicted, the English fans could each be sentenced to ten years in prison...