Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without Prejudice. In Auburn, Calif., Robert Brumfield Jr., after robbing some of his fellow inmates in the Placer County jail, took the sheriff's overcoat and .38-cal. pistol, got into the deputy sheriff's pickup truck and drove away...
...injury to insult when he dared run for governor of Buenos Aires Province against a Perón-backed candidate. After his arrest, Balbin boldly insisted on a trial, but one embarrassed judge after another managed to get the ticklish case off his docket; meanwhile, Balbin was shunted from jail to jail. Finally, an obscure...
Plata judge accepted it. Last week he handed down a verdict,* sentenced Balbin to five years in jail...
Qualifications. In Oklahoma City, county commissioners investigated charges that Constable Samuel Edgar Hutching-son, newly re-elected to his post, was not fit to hold it, found that he was 1) not a resident of the district he policed, 2) doing time in jail for public drunkenness...
Local Talent. In San Diego, when officials at the county jail were unable to open a jail door, they called on an inmate who did the job in four minutes...