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Their choosing jail over a fine or bail marked a first in the Civil Rights Movement since the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, and it sparked the "jail, no bail" strategy that came to be emulated in other places. A growing number of people [8] participated in the sit-ins and marches that continued in Rock Hill through the spring [9] and into the summer ...
William Mansfield Jr. was born in 1956 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the eldest in a family of five children.His father, William Sr., was a convicted child molester who had served sentences in both Michigan and Nevada, [1] who often encouraged fights between his sons. [2]
The Florida School for Boys, also known as the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys (AGDS), was a reform school operated by the state of Florida in the panhandle town of Marianna from January 1, 1900, to June 30, 2011. [1] [2] A second campus was opened in the town of Okeechobee in 1955. For a time, it was the largest juvenile reform institution in ...
Lake County, Florida: Varied Varied Yes The Groveland Four (Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd, and Walter Irvin) were falsely accused of raping 17-year-old Norma Padgett and assaulting her husband on July 16, 1949, in Lake County, Florida. Thomas fled and was killed on July 26, 1949, by a sheriff's posse of 1,000 white men.
As part of an investigation into James Slattery's private prison empire, The Huffington Post analyzed thousands of pages of court transcripts, police reports, state audits and inspection records obtained through state public records laws. Many of the documents behind the series are annotated below.
The influence of the once powerful South Florida chapter of the Outlaws waned severely, partially due to Nolan's incarceration. By the time of his sentencing in 1989, the chapter's membership had diminished to less than a dozen. [2] [6] According to Kehoe, the South Florida Outlaws "fell off when Jim went to jail and then he went to Arizona ...
Hank Williams. One of the most famous incarcerations in country music history occurred on August 17, 1952. Hank Williams was arrested for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct in Alexander ...
The 23rd had signed up for a two-year enlistment (more then enough, most people assumed, to roll up the Rebellion), so Crane and his men mustered out in June of 1863, after taking well over a ...