Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice compounded his own troubles-and the furor in Congress-by brushing off LIFE'S original disclosure of the Wolfson link with a preliminary statement that omitted so much that it was almost a falsehood. It was not until the FBI had quizzed Wolfson in prison-using the power of a grand jury to force his testimony and to give him immunity from prosecution in connection with it-that Fortas wrote a fuller statement, along with his resignation...
...Will Wilson, Assistant Attorney General for the criminal division, had personally begun an investigation of the Fortas-Wolfson relationship. His findings were presented to Chief Justice Warren by Attorney General John Mitchell. The next day the Justice Department dispatched agents to quiz Wolfson in his cell at the federal prison camp in Eglin, Fla.; the material they wanted was in hand. Among other things, Wolfson believed that Fortas was going to intercede for him with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...Italian restaurant in Boise and Turner himself, after state auditors last month discovered a $484,326.83 discrepancy during an annual audit. Turner is being held on 19 counts of forgery, falsifying documents and obtaining money under false pretenses. If convicted on all counts, he could get 266 years in prison...
...prisoners were booked on "field arrest" cards and herded into Alameda County sheriff's vans which ferried them to Santa Rita Prison, the county lockup...
...path by invisible walls. To return to our last reel of Shark Island, when Mudd wakes up the cannoneers, they bolt into sitting position on their bunks in unison, as if a single string controlled them all; the sense of formation is carried through to the end when the prison commander and his men visit Mudd in the hospital--they enter the room in military formation, although a realistic dramatic context would render this unnecessary. Ford's universe is highly structured. The symmetries and orders he creates for his characters have such rightness that individual characters assume more force...