Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bulow was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the 1982 trial. But he has never spent a night in jail, thanks to a successful appeal masterminded by Dershowitz last year in the Rhode Island Supreme Court...
...Drug Enforcement Administration agents who caught them tending an estimated $52,000 worth of homegrown marijuana last October were armed with more than a search warrant. Under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which authorizes lawmen to confiscate property used to commit crime, the Kurus faced not only prison but loss of their land...
...determined to be "nosy neighbors" and serve as the eyes and ears of police. Local spending on police increased by an impressive 65% between 1978 and 1983, according to one survey of some 600 U.S. cities. Despite some resistance to the huge costs, fully 35 states have embarked on prison-expansion programs. State legislatures are enacting laws to limit parole, stiffen sentences and provide new rights for the long-neglected victims of the senseless violence in urban America...
Long sentences and sufficient prison capacity are by no means a perfect solution. Critics rightfully consider prisons as "colleges in crime," where serious efforts at rehabilitation have largely been abandoned. They argue that only criminals convicted of the gravest crimes and repeat offenders can be locked up until they die, if only because prison is so expensive--upwards of $15,800 annually for each prisoner, more than it costs to send a student to Yale. The American Civil Liberties Union argues that greater certainty of some kind of punishment is a better deterrent to crime than stiff sentences...
...their national sections. Miller and Pinter spent five days meeting with Turkish politicians and fellow writers as well as monitoring progress in the trial of 48 members of the Turkish Peace Association. The defendants, most of whom are writers, have been on trial for 18 months and face prison terms of from five to 15 years. The experience left the playwrights worn and wary. "We already had a very hard time in Istanbul," Pinter told one group of reporters in Ankara, "and we don't want to talk." Back in Connecticut last week, Miller observed of the Turkish press...