Upon ratification of the amendment, the famous evangelist Billy Sunday said that "The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs." (Compare Christianity and alcohol.) Since alcohol was to be banned and since it was seen as the cause of most, if not all, crime, some communities sold their jails.
Benny was in and out of jails all his life, and once shot a bystander during a march on Canal Street, and reportedly was shot by a jealous woman.
It is widely believed that he is still alive in one of the Syrian jails, most probably in Mezzeh prison or in the "Sab' Bahrat" (Seven Seas) prison (controlled by the Syrian Air Force intelligence service) in Damascus although some reports stated that he was later transferred to Tadmor prison.
One of his first acts as state secretary was to agree a deal with SS-Brigadeführer Bruno Streckenbach whereby prisoners deemed as "antisocial" were to be removed from jails and given over to the SS to be worked to death in the Nazi concentration camps.
Early Childhood Development Center is an organisation based in Kathmandu, Nepal which provides shelter, food and education to those children living inside jails.
The story is about a youth named Machang Lalung from Middle Assam, who was charged and kept imprisoned in various Indian jails without trial for 54 years.
On March 27, 2004 he met with Sindh Governor Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan as part of a delegation of the Christian community which discussed development works in their areas and their needs with regard to educational institutions, employment opportunities and facilities in jails for Christian prisoners.
George C. Zoley (born February 7, 1950 in Florina, Greece) is the chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and founder of the GEO Group, which manages prisons and jails in the United States.
In 2007 in California Homes Not Jails pushed for passage of a state bill, SB464, which would discourage housing speculation by requiring a five year ownership before property owners can evict tenants under the Ellis Act and give all tenants a year to find new housing if a senior or disabled person resides in the building.
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Homes Not Jails is an American organization that emerged from two of San Francisco's prominent activist organizations Food Not Bombs and the San Francisco Tenants Union and describes itself as an all-volunteer organization committed to housing homeless people through direct action.
Other sources claim that he spent several years as a prisoner of war in the Eritrean war, and languished in the Eritrean People's Liberation Front’s jails in Nakfa.
Man in the Iron Mask, a name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669, and held in a number of jails
An openly gay man named Heinz Dörmer, for instance, served 20 years total, first in a Nazi concentration camp and then in the jails of the new Republic.
Sikh museum is inaugurated by Punjab minister for jails, tourism and cultural affairs Hira Singh Gabria.