Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feminist groups [in Boston] that have addressed themselves to the needs of poor women," Kip Tiernan, a social worker at Boston's St. Phillips Church, says. Tiernan says PUMA members often display an unusual sensitivity to the concerns of female alcoholics, prison inmates and battered women, in social projects which go beyond PUMA members' own immediate interests...
Jimmy Carter's Justice Department could have chosen not to prosecute the now retired ambassador at all or, at the opposite extreme, to charge him with two felony counts of perjury, each carrying a maximum five-year prison sentence and a $2,000 fine. The department took a middle course, charging the 64-year-old Helms with two misdemeanor counts of failing to answer senatorial questions "fully, completely and accurately." The penalty on each count is 30 days to a year in jail and a fine...
...high-tax states is a victimless crime-a free-enterprise way to bring down prices. Lawmakers see it differently. This week a law goes into effect in Ohio that makes "buttlegging" of as little as $60 worth of smokes a felony punishable by a minimum six-month prison term for the first offense. Ohio thus joins eight other states in recognizing that cigarette smuggling is no mere misdemeanor but a crime that drains their treasuries of badly needed revenue...
...first, when someone said I should come up here, I said: 'Going up to Walpole Prison? You think I'm crazy?' The older dudes I know--if they're not out there dead (in the streets) they're ending up out here. Eight of ten end up here. 'What do I want to go up there before I have to for?' I said...
Spears will soon be transferred to a lower security prison. It won't have a Reach-Out program. He describes what the program means to him personally, waxing almost rhapsodically about his "metamorphosis from the beast to the butterfly," his new attitude...