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...Anatoli," said M.S., "we've got to do something. I will lean on that scum" -- he meant General Generalov, Plekhanov's deputy, who was put in charge of the security forces and became our warden. "I will slap him with demands every day. And I'll keep the pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Four Desperate Days | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...About 60% of all women in federal prisons have been convicted of drug-related offenses, but that tells only part of the story. Many other crimes -- theft, prostitution, armed robbery -- are also drug related. At the Rose M. Singer jail for women on New York City's Rikers Island, warden Robert Brennan estimates that drugs underlie the incarceration of 95% of his inmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View from Behind Bars | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...podium that he used to warn a speaker when his time was up (even Carter got red-lighted). It was as if hatred is intellectually and morally such a dangerous, unmanageable mess, such a monster, that Wiesel, the kindest of men, had to police the dialogue like an anxious warden. He said he had nightmares about the red light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Anatomy of Hate | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...upsets the novel's balance, the element of Hocus Pocus that is storytelling seems perfunctory. Eugene Debs Hartke is the diarist, a gung-ho U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War; then a professor of science at Tarkington, a college for dyslectics in New York State; then briefly the warden of a prison for blacks into which the college is transformed; and finally, in the year 2001, the scapegoat defendant after a prison breakout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And So It Went | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

Action: A knock at the door of the jail. Guards, inmates and visitors swigging beer to celebrate the deputy warden's birthday are expecting a delivery of more brews. Surprise! Black-hooded renegades crash the festivities and escape with Billy Bibit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: The Great Escape | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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