Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Easterling, serving an 18- to 20-year sentence, surprised prison officials by failing to return from his work-release job on October 17 because he had just 17 months to serve before he would have become eligible for parole...
Correction Department spokeswoman Mary McGowan said Easterling faces a trial on escape charges as well as disciplinary action within the prison system...
AGAINST ALL HOPE: THE PRISON MEMOIRS OF ARMANDO VALLADARES A Cuban poet who spent 22 years as Castro's political prisoner tells of atrocity, survival and hope...
...protests have continued. Western officials have harped on the plight of the Sakharovs as an example of the Soviets' failures in the area of human rights. Many other activists and dissidents remain in prison, internal exile or psychiatric hospitals, to be sure, but none as famous as Sakharov and Bonner. Over the past year, Gorbachev has tried to reverse the Soviet Union's negative human-rights image by releasing two well-known activists, Anatoli Shcharansky and Yuri Orlov. Another, Anatoli Marchenko, 48, died in prison in early December, the victim of a brain hemorrhage following a hunger strike. His death...
...include cities like Youngstown, Ohio, where the steel industry has been nailed shut for the past few years, and small farms in Kansas and South Carolina that lie as graveyards to unpaid mortgages. Everybody seems to know everything everywhere. The television news displays a riot in an overcrowded Tennessee prison, a newly discovered poem by Shakespeare, an earthquake in Mexico, a bombing in Libya, starvation in Africa, a dinosaur bone...