Word: slammers
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...with interest and skepticism. Prisons are for punishment: to give society the retribution it is due. But punishment should be handed out fairly. When an inmate sees police, judges and politicians, the same people who draft and enforce laws, receiving wrist slaps for conduct that landed him in the slammer for years, the lesson of sure and swift punishment is lost...
...were tipped off by an elderly woman resident of the trailer park, who hinted that more than just Lawrence Welk music was being played in the community room. The raiders netted a whopping $13.60 and cited the highrollers on charges that could have won each six months in the slammer and a $500 fine. The folks at Caesars Tahoe casino in Lake Tahoe, Nev., decided to lend the boys a hand. A bus stocked with food and drink and staffed by a cocktail waitress brought them to the Nevada casino, where they were handed a few bucks each to play...
...They never invented the jail that could hold me." Hitler sneered at the prison guard, as the slammer door swung open. They were going to prosecute the technicians to the fullest extent of the law, they had posted high bail, the cop said. But he bowed his head humbly as Hitler brushed him away. They had released Hitler on $5 bail...
Though the swami faces up to 20 years in a Swiss slammer, he is unrepentant and rejects the charges as part of the "filth spreading round the world." Whatever the law decides, placid Winterthur will not soon forget the time the cuckoos escaped from their clocks...
...helmet to the ice with his stick, brother George threw a punch at the Tiger. George went to the pevalty box for four minutes: two for roughing and two for unsportsman-like conduct. George received the second penalty for going after Tresham while on his way to the slammer. Harvard killed them both...