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...Thursday and invoked executive privilege, waving away congressional subpoenas for documents and witnesses from the likes of Vince Foster sleuth Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee. "The president has a moral obligation to the American people to explain why he let terrorists out of prison," Burton said Thursday...
SENTENCED. JOHN GOTTI JR., 35, son of mobster John Gotti; to 6 1/2 years in prison; in White Plains, N.Y. He had pleaded guilty in April to charges of bribery and extortion...
...with violence and the serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Stocks of poisons and hypodermic needles were found in Swango's living quarters. Yet the best the law could do was convict him of falsifying a job application and sentence him to 42 months in a federal prison. He is scheduled for release in July...
...Bill Sims who emerges as the most fascinating subject. A blues guitarist whose career has stalled, he has grown depressed and developed a drinking problem. Moreover, we learn, he left two other children at an early age. When he returns to find his son facing prison, we see a stark negative of the nurturing idyll he and Karen have created. Yet Bill comes off as a devoted, likable father and husband who offers sharp insights on race...
...passed in the 1960s required mental wards to release anyone who did not want to stay, unless he or she could be proved dangerous. Massive deinstitutionalization occurred. Since 1969, 93% of psychiatric beds have been emptied across the country, and many of the mentally ill end up in the prison system or fending for themselves. Any other way leads to a legal morass. Zdanowicz says, "You can't force someone into an institution unless a whole bunch of criteria are met." The situation is so dire that if family or friends report that an EDP is becoming violent, most mental...