Word: prisoners
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...behind bars. Not that he always minded. At San Quentin he was co-leader, with Art Pepper, of the warden's band. There was always a way -- an easy way -- to score whatever he wanted, from alcohol to cocaine. Most of all, as Morgan now recognizes, prison gave him a way to lie low, to hide from himself and the demands of his gift. There was always someone around, he recalls, who could say, "If they didn't keep you locked up all the time, you could have been the greatest in the world...
...librarian father was accused of being a "rightist." She confesses to Lord that her resentment hardened into a "hate so unnatural that it could sever the bond between a loving father and a loving child." Not until she was sent to collect her father's ashes from the prison where he died did she come to see that it was the regime, not her father, that was the enemy. "Your father's ears were torn off," a prison official confided to her, giving the lie to the explanation that the death was a suicide...
...made young black men an endangered species. Last week a report issued by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based organization that promotes research on criminal justice, found that approximately 609,000 African-American males between the ages of 20 and 29 -- almost 1 of every 4 -- are either in prison, on probation or on parole. Comparable figures for whites are 1 in 16 and for Hispanics...
...prosecutions, backed up by U.S. attorneys and FBI agents across the nation, plus 50 criminal investigators at the Environmental Protection Agency. In seven years, the Justice Department's special environmental unit has obtained more than 400 settlements or convictions against individuals and corporations, yielding fines of $26 million and prison sentences totaling 270 years. Among the defendants: Ashland Oil, fined $2.25 million last year for the collapse of a storage tank near Pittsburgh that discharged more than 700,000 gal. of diesel fuel into the Monongahela and Ohio rivers; Texaco, fined $750,000 in 1988 for failing to conduct important...
Lenin once referred to the vast, polyglot Russian Empire of the Czars as a "prison of nations." Most of those captive nations, set loose briefly by the Bolshevik Revolution and the aftermath of World War I, were reconquered by the Red Army and reforged into the modern Soviet Empire: 15 ethnically diverse republics spreading almost 7,000 miles from the Polish border to the Sea of Japan...