Word: prison
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Defending the mass expulsion, Busia charged that 90% of Ghana's past and present prison population was made up of aliens. It seemed a flimsy excuse for one of the greatest forced population movements in black African history. In numbers, if not in poignancy, it exceeds two recent forced moves. One was the flight of 150,000 Watutsi from Rwanda in the early 1960s, when the tall, proud tribesmen were hunted down and slaughtered by rival Bahutus. The other was the exodus of 21,000 Asians from Kenya over the past two years...
...Rock at night, and instead of being turned back, they were welcomed by Deputy Caretaker Glenn Dodson, who announced that he was one-eighth Indian himself. Thereupon, Dodson directed them to quarters in what had been the warden's house before the Federal Government closed the prison...
...since he was captured by the British 28 years ago, Nazi Germany's onetime Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess has steadfastly refused to see his wife and son. It was beneath the dignity of a high official, he explained, to permit his family to see him in prison. Now 75 and suffering from a duodenal ulcer, Hess was transferred in November from Berlin's Spandau prison to a British military hospital. There, in a room with guards but no bars, Hess last week finally was reunited with his wife Use, who runs a tiny...
...sentenced to life imprisonment at Nürnberg for "preparing aggressive war," he entered Spandau in 1947, and for the past three years has been its only inmate. The Western powers have long wanted to release him on humanitarian grounds. The Soviets have refused, largely because the four-power prison authority is one of Moscow's last official footholds in West Berlin...
...release just before Christmas seemed to gladden every heart, and the newspapers were full of nostalgia about the man once known as "the Babe Ruth of bank robbers." After 17 years of New York's Attica State Prison (and a lifetime total of more than 35 years in jail), Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, a tired, sick old man of 68, was ready with some wistful reminiscing of his own. "People don't seem to want to work hard for anything any more," said Willie. "Years ago, cons used to approach me in various prison yards...