Word: prisoners
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Madan said she was inspired to join the protest by the detention of 18 people in Rangoon for distributing prodemocracyleaflets last August, an event that madeinternational headlines. The students wereoriginally sentenced to a five-year prison termbut were instead deported after pressure fromother countries. Two of the people arrested inRangoon also participated in the D.C. protest...
...Prisoners have no rights in Massachusetts or anywhere else in the U.S.," said Kazi Toure, a panelist from the American Friends Service Committee, an organization that monitors prison conditions across the country...
Among the other speakers were Lisa M. Otero, staff attorney for Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services and director of the Massachusetts HIV in Prison Project, and Hugo A. Bedau, professor of philosophy at Tufts University...
SENTENCED. JEREMY STROHMEYER, 20, convicted molester and murderer of seven-year-old Sherrice Iverson; to life in prison without parole; in Las Vegas. Strohmeyer asked for forgiveness but blasted his former friend David Cash for watching the brutal crime without intervening, saying of Cash, "He makes me sick...
...going to...kick my ass"); and having a second child (She: "I wanted to have other children with Vili"; He: "I didn't really feel ready for another baby...She should have told me. I wouldn't have looked like such a fool"). Letourneau is serving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence, and last week gave birth to their second child, a girl...