Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been excluded, Capitol Hill can ill afford to coddle other rascals, as it unquestionably has done in the past. In the past 16 years, for example, two House members were allowed to serve out their terms despite conviction for payroll padding, and a third served a four-month prison term for income-tax evasion, won re-election later that year and was subsequently sworn in. Not one of these offenders was censured, let alone expelled...
...second time in three months, it looked as if the string had finally run out. Scarcely 48 hours after the court announced its decision, Federal Judge Frank Wilson ordered Hoffa to appear this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., site of the jury-tampering trial, to begin serving an eight-year prison term. Though Hoffa's resourceful lawyers were expected to seek still another delay, even they were losing heart. Asked if he could keep Jimmy out of jail much longer, one of them replied: "I doubt...
...Hospital, 25 miles south of Boston, where he had been held; police, on foot, in cars and a helicopter, searched the area for DeSalvo and the two other inmates-a wife slayer and a robber-who had fled with him. The trio had used a key they made in prison to unlock their cell doors. DeSalvo's brothers were arrested and charged with being accessories after the fact; within recent months DeSalvo had transferred $2,600 in veterans' and Social Security payments to them...
...hospital had not been designed as a prison, and the locks had not been changed since it was built sometime after 1890. Said Hospital Superintendent Charles Gaughan: "We're holding murderers here in a hen coop." Sentenced in January to life plus ten years for armed robbery and sex crimes resulting from assaults on four women, DeSalvo, a former handyman, was never legally identified as the Strangler, but the minute details of his confession-which, by prior agreement with his attorney, could not be used as evidence-left little doubt that he was indeed the man who had murdered...
...executive order, President Johnson has now granted the draft dodgers a second chance. Instead of serving out their prison sentences, they may choose to be paroled into the armed forces. A similar order went into effect in 1941 and, as a result, nearly 1,500 draft dodgers served in World War II-many with distinction.* However, the reaction to this alternative today seems to be "Thanks, but no thanks." By last week, a month after the order had been issued, only one man had asked to take advantage...