Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soldier, you have to know the ways of escape." He regrets he cannot go to restaurants; he fears assassination too much. Last year an attempt was made on his life in a northern town, using remote-controlled rockets. "In a way I am living in a prison without walls," he tells TIME. Within the compound, he often works till 1 a.m. or 2 a.m, and last week he was busily pitting his instinct to survive against the U.S. State Department's preferred way of dealing with the Khmer Rouge's bloody legacy. His only relaxation is chess. Grinning, he says...
...wrote, "Living only one life in one town only, in one country only, in one universe only, living only in one world, is prison...
...doesn?t faze convict-journalist Wilbert Rideau that he won?t be able to attend this year?s Oscars, even though his searing look at the hopelessness of prison life, "The Farm: Angola, USA," is up for an Academy Award as best documentary film and will be encored on the Arts & Entertainment Network on March 15 and March 20. ?One thing about prison is it keeps things in perspective,? says co-director Rideau, who is 57 and has served 38 years in Louisiana prisons on a life sentence for murder. ?The award would be nice, but it won?t change...
...June 7, Kirks will be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Harrington. Although the maximum fine for such a crime is seven years and fines up to $250,000, attorney's office spokesperson Samantha L. Martin said the office will recommend one year in prison and a fine...
...service network where women safely performed abortions for years before the passage of Roe v. Wade, despite the fact that they had no formal training. This underground clinic suffered from vice raids by the police, but they were never bombed, and none of the providers spent significant time in prison. Doctors then risked losing their licenses for performing abortion--now they risk losing their lives...