Word: pulaski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enforcement officials are considering all sorts of imaginative and even outlandish ideas as they struggle with an endemic problem: the exploding U.S. prison population. Between 1980 and 1986, the inmate total shot up 78%, to nearly 550,000. In a dramatic protest against the incarceration crisis, the sheriff of Pulaski County, Ark., last week chained 50 prisoners, including 13 women, to trees outside the state prison at Pine Bluff because authorities said there was no room inside. Embarrassed officials quickly found space in the 696-bed complex, which is now officially operating at full capacity...
...public libraries have even ventured into the world of computer communications. The North-Pulaski branch of the Chicago Public Library, which claims to have installed in 1981 the world's first library computer available to patrons, also boasts what may be the first electronic library bulletin board. The system, which lets people with home computers and modems dial into the library's Apple II, has logged 16,000 calls in three years, including requests for everything from book reviews to tips on pet care. A library bulletin board in San Bernardino, Calif., lists theater performances and city council meetings...
Robinson is prickly and proud of it: his record testifies to his suspicion of any authority but his own. He twice left chained prisoners outside a state penitentiary after officials refused to accept inmates from his overcrowded Pulaski County jail. When a black federal judge dispatched an official to oversee Robinson's facilities, the sheriff ousted the appointee and called the judge a "token...
Freda McGee Mount Pulaski...
Maryknoll lay missioner Phillip Pulaski said the money may encounter obstacles in reaching the refugees. "Things are getting in, but only by the graces of the Honduran military," he added...