Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ATLANTA-Cuban inmates fighting deportation torched buildings and reportedly seized 75 hostages in a lunchtime riot at Atlanta's federal prison yesterday, two days after a similar uprising in Louisiana where prisoners continued to hold captives...
...negotiating session inside the prison attended by a television reporter yesterday evening, four inmates asked for assurances there would be no retaliation for the uprising...
...Marvin Mandel achieved notoriety of his own in the annals of Maryland corruption. Ten years ago he was stripped of his office after his conviction on charges of mail fraud, which involved taking $380,000 in bribes from five political associates. Mandel served 19 months of a three-year prison term before President Reagan commuted the sentence in 1981. Throughout the ordeal, he maintained his innocence...
About a fourth of all Kennedy's opinions concern matters of criminal procedure, and in those cases he has generally taken a law-and-order line. For example, he upheld the death penalty for a Nevada convict, already jailed for murder, who committed another murder in prison. But Kennedy has shown sensitivity to the plight of individuals, something that critics found lacking in Bork. One case arose after police discovered drugs on an immigrant crossing the Mexican border by subjecting the man to a body-cavity search. "I remember him agonizing over that," says Kozinski. The suspect was clearly guilty...
...cops catch the counterfeiters and courts convict the currency copyists, these collegiate criminals could collect hard time in the can. Secret Service officials in Cleveland said that counterfeiters face a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison for copying the bills and another 15 years for passing them, as well as up to $10,000 in fines. BRANDEIS...