The opera concentrates on Wilde's later life: his 1895 trials, in a society that criminalized homosexuality, for consorting with the young Lord Alfred Douglas, affectionately known as Bosie, in the first act, and his two-year imprisonment in the second.
The defendants -- Dellroy Jones, 18, Keith Short, 20, and Mitchell McPhee, 16 -- are charged with sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment in the second degree and could face up to seven years in prison if convicted.
LONDON — Showing signs of fatigue, Mrs. Pankhurst and Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence entered the Old Bailey dock yesterday [May 22] and were evidently glad when the suffragist conspiracy trial was over and their sentence of nine months' imprisonment in the second division pronounced by Mr. Justice Coleridge.
Since The Pilgrim's Progress was published soon after this, in February 1678, it is probable that he had begun to write it not in the second imprisonment but in the first, soon after the composition of Grace Abounding, and when the examination of his inner life contained in that book was still strong.
On the day of Mussolini's proclamation, Dallapiccola began work on his Canti di Prigionia (Songs of Imprisonment) - the first in a series of "protest" works.
But more upsetting than the raid on the house was her anxiety for Michael, who spent five days in Feltham, exposing him to imprisonment for the first time.
Borch was sentenced to nine years imprisonment, the first of which will be in a young offender's institution and the following eight in jail.
From this principle spring the two most striking recommendations made – that homosexual acts done in private between consenting adults should cease to be criminal offences, and that prostitutes convicted of soliciting several times should be liable to penalties of increasing severity, rising to three months' imprisonment for the third offence, in place of the present derisory forty shillings.
She attended the famous trial of her father & brother in 1921, which resulted in the first of their many imprisonments.
