Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, questioned whether it was all worth it, given the deplorable state of Southern jails.
Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday that the European Union would be allowed to send experts to assess the medical state of his jailed predecessor, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, and the legal process that led to her conviction and seven-year sentence.
Last summer, Siegelman was sentenced to seven years in prison and immediately whisked off to a series of out-of-state jails, not even being allowed to remain free on bond while his appeal was under way.
Trump, his voice brash, responded, saying he had thick skin instead of thin, but attacked her over her email controversy, even hinting that if he was elected he would send the former secretary of state to jail.
The insights Thoreau developed from witnessing first-hand the power of the state to jail citizens, had far-ranging consequences.
NEW ORLEANS — Over the past year, in churches full of citizens railing at the state of the city jail, and in courtrooms where the thousands of young men who populate that jail rotate glumly through the sentencing process, a middle-aged woman could be seen sitting quietly.
Mr. Hamadeh's account gives a window into the current state of a notorious jail, the branch office of the air force intelligence agency in Harasta outside Damascus, and how one Syrian ended up there.
Welcome to the world of weddings in New Paltz, the small upstate village where, three weeks ago, the 26-year-old mayor first challenged the State of New York to jail him for performing same-sex marriages.
