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Some of the most blatant corruption has occurred in Tanzania. Last year a member of the country's parliament, Alli Yusufu Abdurabi, was discovered with 105 tusks. Abdurabi is now serving a twelve-year prison sentence for trading in illegal ivory. Indonesia's former Ambassador to Tanzania, Hoesen Yoesoef, was found trying to smuggle more than 200 tusks out of the country last January. Other illegal ivory was found in the hands of a Catholic priest, a leading local journalist and officials of the Iranian and Pakistani embassies. More than 280 tons of illegal ivory has left Tanzania...
Although Bakker will almost certainly not get the maximum penalty (120 years and $5 million in fines) when he is sentenced Oct. 24, he is likely to spend time behind bars. Potter had earlier meted out a tough eight years in prison and a $200,000 fine to former Bakker aide Richard Dortch, even though Dortch testified for the prosecution. Two other staffers who provided evidence drew draconian prison terms for tax evasion...
...years of neglect. He -- as hapless as any sitcom daddy -- rushes off to rescue her from her low-rent life in Houston. When he gets there, he finds that his daughter is a foul-mouthed, dope-smoking mother of two small children, both of whose fathers are in prison...
...question is, Does any of this work? In Georgia, where boot camps were invented in 1983, boosters claim that it costs only $3,400 to house and revamp one inmate in 90 days, in contrast to the $15,000 annual bill for housing a prisoner in the state penitentiary. Boot camps provide one unquestioned benefit: they get the youthful offenders off the street and give them a taste of the debasement of prison life while offering them a startling "one last chance" to straighten...
...Georgia, experts say 35% of boot-camp graduates are back in prison within three years, roughly the same rate as for those paroled from the general prison population. Blitzing young people into acceptable behavior through terror has been tried before and has failed. Ohio experimented with "shock probation" in 1965, sentencing first offenders to the penitentiary for 90 days. The disastrous results were indolence, sodomy and violence. ) Prisoners at the East Jersey State Prison in Rahway played real-life roles in which they confronted juvenile offenders on probation to demonstrate the violence behind the walls. Subsequent studies by Rutgers University...