Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--Walter Sisulu, senior leader of the African National Congress and colleague of Nelson Mandela, was freed yesterday after 25 years in prison...
Mandela, the ANC's most prominent jailed leader, remains in prison, although his release within the next few months is widely expected...
Four other ANC leaders who had been flown to Johannesburg from Cape Town on Friday also reportedly were freed yesterday. These include three men sentenced to life prison terms in 1964 along with Sisulu and Mandela--Andrew Mlengeni, 63, Elias Mostsoaledi, 65, and Ahmed Kathrada, 60--and another ANC leader, Wilton Mkwayi, 67, who was sentenced to a life prison term in a separate 1964 trial...
Mpetha was serving a five-year prison term for terrorism. Masemola was sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Jimmie's prison survival, and the movie's too, really depends on Virgil Cane (F. Murray Abraham), a convict who teaches Jimmie more than how to get by in jail. Abraham introduces integrity to An Innocent Man, first in his portrayal of Virgil and then in Virgil's effect on Jimmie...