Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week, more than four years after Belushi's body was found in a bungalow off Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, a Los Angeles judge handed a three- year prison sentence to Cathy Evelyn Smith, 39, who supplied the actor with heroin during his final week. Smith had pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter, as well as to administering and furnishing controlled substances. While conceding that Belushi was partly responsible for his own death because of his "drug-infested life," Judge David Horowitz ruled that Smith must be punished for "being the source of that poison...
Pamela Jacklin, Belushi's sister-in-law, urged a prison term for Smith. "We must let the drug pushers know that the courts will not look kindly upon them. Drug dealers are merchants of misery and death." Smith knows both sides of that coin. According to her attorney, Howard Weitzman, she has been battling her addiction for years. But for Belushi, said Weitzman, Smith might have remained "just another addict...
...stock fell after the news of the tampering. Then Marks spread word anonymously of his deed, and SmithKline quickly % recalled its medications. In the end, though, Marks made no money. After pleading guilty to nine counts of tampering and communicating false information, he faces up to 54 years in prison and a $2.25 million fine...
...federal district court, "the Government would undoubtedly be seeking the death penalty in this case." Since federal law does not provide capital punishment for peacetime espionage, Judge John Vukasin chose the closest thing: he sentenced Jerry Whitworth, a member of the Walker family espionage ring, to 365 years in prison. Whitworth will not be eligible for parole for 60 years, when he would be 107. "Jerry Whitworth," said Vukasin, "is a zero at the bone," a man who had betrayed his country for money because "he believes in nothing." Whitworth said only, "I'm very, very sorry...
While undergraduates living on campus during the academic year are forced to ingest such upscale prison fare as broccoli-cheese pasta, scrod that never had a chance, and produce that would make a P.O.W. think twice, alumni living in the houses are being feted to meals fit for a French Sun King...