Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exiled boss of the Greek Communist Party. Until now, that part of the Greek press still operating has obediently followed the junta's orders, but the attack on Karamanlis was simply too much. Two Athens publishers, Nassos Botsis and Panes Athanasiades, declared that they would rather go to prison than print such a charge in their three dailies...
These affluent days, most Americans rarely think about what's going on in the local jail, or they assume that prison reform has worked some quiet miracle of rehabilitation. Experienced in mates know better. Understaffed and undersupervised, county jails often provide terror far more chilling than any thing to be found in a full-scale pen itentiary. Last week the everyday horrors of life in Chicago's Cook County Jail erupted into public view. A grand jury has been investigating, and the city's newspapers have started interviewing former inmates. The result is a stomach-turning catalogue...
Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox is not hardhearted - or incapable of the grand gesture. Last week he made the grandest gesture of his eleven-month gubernatorial career, turning loose a full 7% of the state's prison population -547 inmates who have three months or less yet to serve - for Christmas at home...
Yelling Thirties. Benton and Newman were not the first to see the cinematic potential of Bonnie and Clyde. Back in 1937 the gangster couple inspired Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once, a fictionalized treatment of a man ruined by a prison sentence, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sydney. As recently as 1958, The Bonnie Parker Story starred Dorothy Provine, a veteran of TV's Roaring Twenties turned into a Yelling Thirties girl...
...vendetta. A New York federal jury disagreed, found the high-flying Wolfson guilty on each of the 19 counts against him. Last week that conviction brought Wolfson, chairman of the Merritt-Chapman & Scott construction complex and one of the U.S.'s most controversial corporate raiders, a one-year prison sentence and $100,000 fine. Federal Judge Edmund L. Palmieri also sentenced a longtime Wolfson crony, Elkin ("Buddy") Gerbert, 58, to six months in prison and fined...