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...Four years ago, an elderly convicted pimp appeared in a Seattle court for sentencing. Instead of sending him to the slammer, the judge ordered him to contribute $3,000 to begin a scholarship fund for prostitutes who want to go to college. "One of the biggest hassles for a prostitute is getting the money for education," says Jennifer James, an anthropologist at the University of Washington and one of the trustees of the fund. "The only solution seems to be to go back to prostitution or deal with the bureaucracy, and I can see why a prostitute would find...
...Grand Slammer Budge was the first player to win the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships in the same year...
...have to ask yourself about each individual case, and the circumstances are always different. What is to be ac complished by having certain people sitting in the slammer...
...jury decided in three hours that Olsen's fear was justified and that he was not guilty. Thus Olsen was spared an additional sentence. Nonetheless, back he went behind bars to finish his original ten-year term for receiving stolen property-but this time in a "medium security" slammer. Officials seem to have moved him not so much to ease the rape threat as to make sure he does not try to escape again...
...prison movie is not complete and where we have all done too much hard time. Finally, a compromise is reached. Reynolds will organize, coach and star on a team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw the game. Finally, he turns around...