Word: prisons
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...stand trial in France. Unexpectedly, Barbie asked Cerdini for permission to read a statement. "I am being held here illegally," said the defendant without emotion, referring to his oft-repeated contention that he was unlawfully expelled from Bolivia. "I am the victim of a kidnaping . . . I'm not a prisoner, but a hostage." Then he stunned onlookers by refusing to submit further to the judicial proceedings. Said Barbie: "I have no intention of appearing again before this court. I ask you to return me to St. Joseph Prison...
...four years the old Nazi has paced his solitary, maximum-security cell in St. Joseph prison, just a few hundred yards from the site of his Gestapo headquarters in Lyons during World War II. Garrulous by nature, he is prevented from speaking to anyone except his round-the-clock French guards, his lawyer and a 46-year-old daughter who visits once a month. But for Klaus Barbie, an uncomfortable isolation is about to turn into an even more uncomfortable spectacle. This week the wartime head of the Gestapo in France's third largest city, who became infamous...
...assault last December; in New York City. Roth, upset by Hanson's refusal to date him and by her demand that he return her $850 apartment deposit, had promised Bowman and Norman an apartment as payment for their crime. All three men face up to 15 years in prison...
INDICTED. Ricky L. Gates, 32, engineer of the Conrail locomotives that collided with an Amtrak passenger train in Maryland last January, killing 16 and injuring 175, the worst wreck in Amtrak's history; on 16 counts of manslaughter, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $1,000 fine on each count; in Towson...
...true, as you note in your article on the attempt to make prison sentences more uniform ((LAW, April 27)), that a 10% increase in the prison population over the next decade would be intolerable. But the actual increase could be vastly greater. If just one piece of legislation like last year's drug bill, which calls for stiffer sentencing, is factored in, the increase will be much larger. We simply cannot lock everybody up. Something has got to give. Congress must choose: either allocate many billions of dollars for new prisons, or use imprisonment only where necessary and make greater...