Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week Fromme decided to think about freedom. After climbing over an 8-ft. barbed-wire fence, Fromme spent some 40 hours hiding out in the mountainous wilderness while armed posses with bloodhounds scoured the muddy, rugged terrain. On Christmas Day she was recaptured, just two miles from the prison. Searchers found her wandering on the side of the road, soaking wet after a night of chilly rain...
There was a peculiar precedent for her escape: in 1979 Sara Jane Moore, who tried to kill Ford just 17 days after Fromme's attempt, escaped from Alderson (Moore was recaptured only hours later and sent to a California prison). Fromme's flight surprised prison officials, particularly since the mild- mannered inmate had turned down an offer for a parole hearing in 1985. "She seemed O.K. to me," said Associate Warden Maureen Atwood. "But she's kind of strange." Authorities speculated that Fromme might have heard unconfirmed rumors that Manson was dying of cancer and become desperate...
Aside from the response of outspoken spectators, reaction to last week's verdict was restrained, almost relieved, because the black community had feared that the defendants would, like Goetz, be acquitted of all major charges. As it turned out, however, three youths face up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter: Jon Lester, 18, Scott Kern, 18, and Jason Ladone, 17. Many of those involved in the trial felt that at least a measure of justice had been meted out. Said Jean Griffith: "God, in the end, did what was right...
...sentence seemed to split the difference between harshness and leniency. The prison term was one year longer than the sentence given last February to Investment Banker Dennis Levine, who led investigators to Boesky after confessing that he and Boesky had been part of an insider-trading ring. But Boesky, who, as part of a plea bargain, admitted to one count of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission, could have received a five-year sentence and a $250,000 fine. Clearly the judge knocked time off because Boesky has been cooperating with investigators. Before his crimes were publicly revealed...
...Zealand Prime Minister David Lange called Mafart's evacuation a "blatant and outrageous breach" of an agreement between the two countries. A New Zealand court had earlier sentenced Mafart and Dominique Prieur, the other convicted agent, to ten years in prison after they pleaded guilty to involvement in the bombing of the ship. The two were released into French custody on condition that they not return to mainland France for at least three years. French Premier Jacques Chirac claimed that the agreement had allowed an "automatic return to France" if either agent became...