Word: prisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...authorities ever had such an attitude, it has changed. Last month a Manhattan federal judge sentenced Wall Street Lawyer Ilan Reich, 32, to a year and a day in prison for his role in an insider-trading ring led by Investment Banker Dennis Levine, a former Drexel Burnham managing director whose 1986 arrest led to the eventual uncovering of the Boesky scandal. In passing sentence on the now disbarred lawyer, the judge said his punishment was intended as a deterrent. Last week another Manhattan judge gave an identical term to Robert Wilkis, 37, a former investment banker at Lazard Freres...
...Eyes of the Dragon is a medieval fantasy that drives over thin ice, and its strength is in its speed. Good Prince Peter is framed for regicide by Flagg, a wicked magician who could teach Merlin a few tricks. Once Peter is hauled away to a prison tower, Flagg's puppet, Thomas, rules with a combination of cupidity, naivete and wickedness. Will Thomas be deposed? Will Peter escape and regain the throne? Will he successfully confront Flagg -- or will the wizard disappear with a hearty "Aiiiiyyyyyyyyeeeeee?" Devotees of the King assembly line want no surprises and will receive none. Those...
...decoration of the not-so-new journalism. She has had the doubtful advantage of interviewing the imprisoned criminals in the case, and likes to titillate readers with her reactions: "That night, after falling into a troubled sleep, I had my first dream about William Bradfield. He had escaped from prison and had come directly to my house. I was alone. When I opened the door and saw him, I was surprised, but greeted him as a friend. He put his arms around me. 'I've waited a long time for this,' he said, and then he lifted his hands...
...basement contained items of even more interest to the law: 580 grams of marijuana, illegal pills, stolen office equipment, four gallons of nitric acid, gun silencers made from automobile oil filters and Brink's security-guard uniforms used in a robbery of a Sears store. Smith was in prison for that caper when he was charged with the Reinert deaths...
...Harvard offers not a single course in the history of the former penal colony. True, there are no courses in the history of Alcatraz or of Riker's Island--although I wouldn't put it past the folks over in Robinson Hall. But then again, neither of these prison is a country unto itself, much less a continent...