Tag: prison
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DE KLERK—WHITE HOPE
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 3, 1994 The scenes are stunning: blacks lustily cheering apartheid scion Frederik Willem de Klerk as he campaigns for re-election to the presidency of South Africa. The happy candidate obliges by donning Zulu tribal hats, carrying spears and cowhide shields. “I’m white,” he told…
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INCREDIBLE ROAD TAKES HIM HOME: Mandela Has Only Begun to be Great
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Tuesday, May 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—This day was never supposed to come. Nelson Mandela was never supposed to return from life imprisonment to divert South Africa from the ruinous path apartheid has laid for its peoples. And blacks in this country were never supposed…
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FEDERAL LIMIT ON INMATES ASSAILED; Del Tufo Weighs Legal Challenge
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, April 1, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | B01 New Jersey Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo said Tuesday that he is considering challenging federal court orders that limit the number of state prisoners in some county jails. “I would prefer…
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VICTORY FOR JAIL COULD BE A LOSS; Hearings Resume on Overcrowding
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, January 29, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | Page B01 In an ironic twist to a class-action suit seeking to reduce overcrowding at the Bergen County Jail, a high-ranking county official says the county could wind up a loser if it…
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INMATE CLAIMS INJURY BY GUARD DOG; Attack in food protest charged
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, January 25, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | One Star | NEWS | Page A04 A Bergen County Jail prisoner claims he was injured when he was subdued by a police dog during an inmate protest over food. Another inmate said the prisoner was bitten by…
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ESCAPED KILLER CHARGED IN HOLDUPS; Pair of Businesses were Robbed
Byline: By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, January 24, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | Page B01 A convicted killer who escaped from a Connecticut prison and was recaptured in Paramus over the weekend was charged Thursday with two armed robberies in Rutherford and Montvale, authorities said.…
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FUGITIVE CAUGHT IN PARAMUS; Killer Is Found at Shopping Mall
By David Gibson and Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writers | Sunday, January 19, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A01 The wide-ranging manhunt for a killer who fled a Connecticut prison on New Year’s Eve ended late Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of Garden State Plaza, where…
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JAIL NEGOTIATIONS BOG DOWN OVER WHO SHOULD PAY
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, December 21, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star B |NEWS | Page A03 Negotiations over a lawsuit aimed at reducing overcrowding at the Bergen County Jail have reached an impasse over funding, the state Public Advocate’s Office says. The office is expected to go…
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AFTER THE KILLING SPREE, SUICIDE WATCH FOR SUSPECT
By Bill Sanderson and Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writers | Saturday, October 12, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A01 Joseph M. Harris, the fired postal worker accused of killing four people early Thursday, was under a suicide watch Friday in a single cell in the Bergen County…
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KILLER’S REQUEST FOR PAROLE IS REJECTED
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, August 10, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star B | NEWS | Page A03 A request for parole by Christopher Righetti serving a life sentence for the 1976 rape and murder of a 20-year-old New Milford woman was rejected this week, the state Parole…