Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed with a shovel; he has been repeatedly arrested for petty crimes and is fighting a long prison sentence for extortion. He suspects everyone: Bosnians out for vengeance, NATO forces who he fears will deliver him to the Hague, Serb secret police determined to hush him up. "There are so many refugees, agents, spies," he says. "I'm just an easy target...
...three-strikes-you're-out law went into effect, experts predicted a case like this. Bristow had been a rising star at a county district attorney's office, but then he refused to prosecute a case that could have sent a man with two prior felony convictions to prison for 25 years to life for possession of a minuscule 0.23 gram of cocaine. The D.A. asked him to resign. He's now a public defender, and was given a Conscience Award by the state's A.C.L.U. Says he: "Everyone should stand up for what they believe...
Gang said the purpose of the Chinese prison system "is to change us and our thoughts...
...said prisoners were forbidden to use the words "we," "they," "us" and "you." By using those words, a prisoner was considered to be setting himself apart as an individual, he said, an act discouraged by the communist government and its prison guards...
After six years in prison, Gang said he was released, only to be followed by police and harassed on the street...