Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIRST CIRCLE, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Using a model prison as an allegory for Soviet society, Russia's greatest living novelist constructs an endless labyrinth of despair...
...very deeply the fact that with me on this bench is a young man whose personality is still unformed. I am speaking of [Vadim] Delone [a 21-year-old student and poet sentenced to 34 months at hard labor], whose character may be crippled by being sent to a prison camp. I regret, too, that the gifted, honest scholar [Konstantin] Babitsky [a 32-year-old Moscow philologist, who was banished for three years] will be torn away from his work...
People who buy or sell unregistered marijuana are subject to prison terms ranging from 2 to 40 years...
...nine are already appealing six-year federal-prison terms for pouring duck blood on Baltimore draft files. Appeals are also planned against last week's verdict. "It was a defeat from the legal point of view," said Kunstler. "But it was a triumph from the emotional, moral and ethical point of view. I have nothing to regret...
Strike Forces. Clark insists that electronic eavesdropping is costly, unnecessary, and no substitute for resourceful detective work. He argues that its main value is to get at the leaders of the syndicates, whose organizations will flourish even if they go to prison. Rather than assigning up to six men to tap one of the bosses' phones round the clock, Clark prefers to send his men into the field to crack down on the sources of rackets revenue at the local level...