Word: slammers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...penal institutions. Since last October, when the California state legislature passed a statute restoring numerous civil rights to felons, including the right to marry, the wedding bells have been ringing loudly. In the last quarter of 1975, some 177 prisoners, or about 1% of state inmates, tied the knot. Slammer marriage ceremonies, usually per formed by prison chaplains or county officials, are maintaining roughly this same pace in the early months of 1976. Weddings are open to all prisoners, even the "lifers...
...fingerprinted at the door. The mock lockup was all in honor of Author Truman Capote, who is currently in Hollywood portraying a criminologist who becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They had me lying on the floor with a knife in my back for two days...
...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...