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Background. The first Books to Prisoners projects were founded in the early 1970s. These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986. Since then, dozens of prison book programs have been established ...
It sold over 100,000 copies in Taiwan and 10,000 in Hong Kong in its first month of release, but discussion of her work was banned in mainland China following the book launch. [101] Prisoner of the State (2009) Zhao Ziyang: Memoir Banned. The book is memoirs by former Chinese General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. [102] [103] China's Best Actor: Wen ...
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September. The militants infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage, who were later killed in a failed ...
Mitchell Edward Rupe (1955 – February 7, 2006) was a convicted murderer who achieved notoriety when his death sentence was overturned after a judge determined that Rupe was too obese to hang. On the morning of September 17, 1981 Rupe fatally shot bank tellers Candace Hemmig and Twila Capron during a robbery of Tumwater State Bank in Olympia ...
Hollywood Bandit. William Scott Scurlock (March 5, 1955 – November 28, 1996), nicknamed the Hollywood Bandit or simply Hollywood, was an American criminal who robbed banks in the Seattle area during the 1990s, during which he used Hollywood -quality make-up and disguises. He is credited with successfully robbing 19 banks, though one source ...
List of Washington state prisons. This is a list of state prisons in Washington housing adult inmates administered by the Washington State Department of Corrections (WADOC). [ 1] It does not include county jails, or juvenile facilities located in Washington.
Danielle Steel. Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. [ 3] As of 2021, she has written 190 books, including over 140 [ 4] novels.
Olympic Corrections Center. / 47.71917°N 124.13639°W / 47.71917; -124.13639. The Olympic Corrections Center is located in Jefferson County, west of Olympic National Park. It is within the service area of the Forks, Washington, post office, even though it is not close to that city. It is a minimum security facility.