Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate for Congress or Governor. Last week, however, Roark was back in court, this time as a defendant. As he was about to go to trial, the mayor pleaded guilty to six charges of cocaine possession and resigned his position. He faces as much as six years in prison...
...driving fatalities in the U.S. in 1986. Alcohol was implicated in up to 70% of the 4,000 drowning deaths last year and in about 30% of the nearly 30,000 suicides. A Department of Justice survey estimates that nearly a third of the nation's 523,000 state-prison inmates drank heavily before committing rapes, burglaries and assaults. As many as 45% of the country's more than 250,000 homeless are alcoholics...
...Cultural Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, Koch's ever present companion during his first race for mayor in 1977. The former Miss America faces trial for bribing a judge to reduce the divorce settlement of her lover Carl Capasso, a rich sewer contractor now serving four years in prison for income tax evasion...
...Prison officials were seeking the release of those two hostages as a good faith gesture, said Pickard, who added that the prisoners were "having trouble believing" Meese's offer...
...prison was not considered safe enough to allow firefighters in the compound until about 7:30 p.m., when six fire trucks lined up to go inside. By that time, the fire had spread from the prison industry building but officials released no details on the extent of the blaze...