Word: prisons
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...former members of President Anastasio Somoza's National Guard who have been in prison since the Sandinista revolution of July 1979 will be released after a final truce is worked out. Under Somoza, the army was called the National Guard...
Each offense is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum penalty of one year in prison. Sentencing may be delayed until McFarlane cooperates with Walsh on further prosecutions. "I have told all that I know . . ." McFarlane said. "I will be available to repeat it." That was not good news for such major Walsh targets as John Poindexter and Oliver North...
...divorced, Lamb, 34, was convicted of forgery and false personation, and faces up to four years in prison. Salant, 32, was put on three years' probation, lost her job and may be disbarred...
...police force in Medellin is suspected of working for the Mafia. Last December the cartel was able to secure the release from a Bogota jail of Jorge Luis, a brother of Jorge Ochoa Vasquez's, a reputed drug billionaire whose sudden release from a Colombian prison last January infuriated the Reagan Administration...
Mayor Young recognizes the daunting odds against his crusade. "We have more than tripled the number of people arrested," he said last week, "but prison space hasn't tripled. We are putting an additional burden on an already overcrowded system." Young also blames the Federal Government for failing to stanch the flow of cocaine into the U.S: "We're fighting an impossible fight if our city and other cities continue to be inundated by this drug...