Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...backwoods of West Virginia, the mothers of Beverly Hills and Chevy Chase and Great Neck and Belmont were not on the telephones to their congressmen screaming you killed my boy, they were not writing to the President that his crazy, wrong, evil war had put their boys in prison and ruined their careers...
Rahway is just one pocket of prison philanthropy. Across the country, inmates find ways, big and small, to escape the moral insulation of prison life. The scale of the effort varies from jail to jail: throughout Pennsylvania, prisoners sponsor statewide run-a-thons that through the years have collected nearly $89,000 for various youth programs. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, inmates sell pizza in the visiting room to raise $2,500 a year for residents of a juvenile home. At Soledad and San Quentin in California, inmates sort discarded eyeglasses to give to the poor. Female minimum-security inmates...
...District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was not impressed with Washington Mayor Marion Barry's last-minute contrition. On Oct. 26, Jackson sentenced him to six months in prison and a $5,000 fine for a cocaine- possession misdemeanor. Having failed to provide a "good example" in the city's highest post, said the judge, Barry "must now become an example of another kind." Last week Jackson hinted that he may have had more controversial motives for handing down what the mayor claims is stiff punishment...
...understand that there are different sets of standards for different people, and that's the American injustice system," Barry declared after his sentencing. What lends credence to Barry's charge is the leniency shown to other politically prominent defendants who happen to be white. Oliver North escaped a prison sentence for his three $ felony convictions in 1989, since overturned. Reagan insider Michael Deaver also avoided jail two years ago. Deaver, who could have been given up to 15 years for felony perjury following his influence-peddling trial, received a $100,000 fine and 1,500 hours of community service from...
...have centered on sufferers who had committed crimes. They later maintained that they either were not responsible for their actions by reason of insanity or were incompetent to stand trial. For the first time, the testimony of a victim claiming to have the disorder could send someone else to prison for as many as 10 years. Sarah's claim is that she was mentally ill and as a result was unaware of having sex with the defendant. Thus, she says, she was sexually violated...