Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater bragged that he would turn Willie Horton, a Black convicted murderer who raped a woman during a furlough from a Massachusetts prison, into "a household name." Horton's dark, sinister face now appears in pro-Bush leaflets and television advertisements in an effort to stir up the ugliest and basest fear of whites--a Black man raping a white woman...
Bush heatedly denied that his attacks on Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough program had racist overtones for citing the case of Willie Horton Jr., who is Black. Horton, a convicted murderer, brutalized a Maryland couple after escaping, but Bush said his commercial "didn't have any reference to his race and no picture...
...said Dukakis countered with an ad showing a picture of a Hispanic prisoner who had escaped from a federal prison program and committed crimes...
Washburn had already suffered so much. He had lost responsible posts at two respected schools. He had seen his family's good name soiled. So the court naturally determined that a man in Washburn's position should be sentenced to prison for the rape of a child--and that the sentence should be suspended...
...York by next week and would plead not guilty and vigorously contest the charges. Tigue said the Marcoses were "deeply disappointed at President Reagan's failure to prevent this treatment of a long-standing ally." The main count carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison...