Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Victims who go to the police often find them insensitive or even hostile. When Raleigh, N.C., Bar Owner Warren Kilby was stabbed during a tryst with another man in 1986, police warned him that if he insisted on pressing charges, he could go to prison for admitting that he had committed sodomy. In January, University of Illinois Music Professor Michael Cameron was kicked and beaten on a Chicago street by a man who repeatedly asked him if he was "straight." When Cameron tried to report the incident to two policemen, the officers drove away...
...caught, the guilty complain about their sentences. Hernandez fussed and hollered because the league took away 10 percent of his salary. Quick subtraction will tell you that Hernandez is still pulling in about $1.8 million-a-year. Not bad for a would-be felon. It sure beats a prison softball game in which you solidly slap an extra-base hit up left-center field only to discover that you can't round first base because both of your ankles are shackled...
...very rich, guilt and anxiety can transform privilege and status into a gilded prison. In some circles they call it affluenza...
...young man. I was thinking why so many grown-ups believed in the Nazi ideology and why do your parents not believe. And why is someone in your family in prison. And, as I'm told, my mother was tortured by the Gestapo. And when she told me this, I was in the army-we had a draft army during the war. And I says, `I see no reason to defend this system with a weapon,'" Kluncker says...
...Kluncker deserted the German army in 1944 and escaped to the United States, where he remained in an prison camp until the end of the war. After the war Kluncker returned to his homeland, where he became an official of West Germany's Social Democratic Party and halped start labor unions...