Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder in the bombings and to two counts of theft by deception for selling forged or nonexistent documents. The plea bargain allowed Hofmann, 32, to avoid the death penalty, but he was given a sentence of five years to life in prison, and Judge Kenneth A. Rigtrup recommended that Hofmann remain incarcerated "for the rest of your natural life...
...drugs -- and the drug trade -- and headed out to Texas for a new law-abiding life. The old life caught up with him anyway. In December 1985 federal agents arrested him on charges connected to his Florida coke dealing. After pleading guilty last spring, Guerra faced 15 years in prison...
...logging 400 hours over 2 1/2 years as a fund raiser and volunteer for Arts for People, a nonprofit group that provides artists and entertainers for the critically ill at Dallas-area hospitals and institutions. His sentence, which also includes a $15,000 fine, means that a prison system full to bursting need not make room for one more. He sees a benefit to the community too. "I just love the job," he says. "I'll probably continue it after the sentence...
...work may be admirable, but is a stint of public service the just deserts of crime? Many people would say no, but they may not be the same ones who must contend with the bedlam of American prisons. In recent years, a get- tough trend toward longer sentences and more of them has had a predictable consequence. Even as crime rates generally declined during the first half of the 1980s, inmate numbers tracked wild ballistics of their own, increasing by nearly 60%. The nation's prison population now stands at a record 529,000, a total that grows...
...theft of property worth more than $100 is a felony and if the persons involved in the Kirkland House incident are apprehended, they could face more than a year in prison...