Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says he loves LeTourneau and objects to being called a "victim." LeTourneau, now on suicide watch, is without medication or therapy. And there is no assurance, say her doctors and lawyer, that she will get either one in prison...
...After that, as part of a deal for a lighter sentence, he changed his story. But that change makes McDougal an admitted perjurer--not the most effective witness against the President in any future trial. McDougal's ex-wife Susan has spent the last 17 months in a federal prison for refusing to cooperate with Starr...
...famous videotape, edited for television, did not show that after leading police on a 7.8-mile chase at speeds up to 115 m.p.h., King, a large man over 6 ft. tall with muscles buffed in prison weight rooms, appeared, according to police, virtually psychotic on some kind of drug, showed no effect from two jolts from a stun gun and threw off several officers who tried to "swarm" him, a relatively benign technique used to subdue a violent suspect. Nor did it show that after all that, King was charging directly at the officer who first whacked him with...
...matters, we will soon have a government that can get to anyone. Everyone has something embarrassing to hide. When we aren't all dealing with a President we're ready to string up, this unfettered intrusion may be what haunts us most. What a Hobbesian choice: lie and face prison or tell the truth and face public humiliation. The perjury follows, even though the act--reprehensible though it might be--did not flow from official duty. No one should lie, but Big Brother shouldn't ask. This all comes by way of a prosecutor who before he took the appointment...
...because witnesses identified them by those accoutrements--made tabloid headlines, feeding the public's fears of juvenile delinquency and gang violence. At 16, Agron became the youngest person ever to receive the death penalty in New York State, a sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. In prison, Agron educated himself, began writing poetry and left-wing political tracts and became a cause celebre for liberal intellectuals. He won a parole in 1979 and died seven years later of an apparent heart attack...