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Until the high-tech methods are perfected, more conventional alternatives remain the most popular. About 30 states have funded "intensive probation supervision," in which participants are typically required to work, keep a curfew, pay victims restitution and, if necessary, receive alcohol or drug counseling. Instead of the usual caseload -- the nationwide average is 150 -- a probation officer in such experiments oversees just 25 people. Even with the added staff expense, the programs still cost less than incarceration...
...state of siege, which includes a nationwide midnight-to-6-a.m. curfew and bans on union and political activity, was the second that Paz Estenssoro has declared in the past twelve months. The President took a similar step in September 1985 to halt a general strike that protested economic austerity moves...
...know it's a dangerous drug," some marijuana and pills. Large cases or little, the marshal said, you have to be on your toes. Mothers used to come down to the saloons and leave their children outside on the benches until all hours. McNeely now enforces a 10 p.m. curfew for everyone under...
...deeper question at issue is how long and how easily democracy and dictatorship can live together. In some respects, Chun has eased his country steadily closer to freedom. The man in the Korean street no longer observes a midnight curfew, fears no sudden police raids and is able to travel abroad much more easily than before. Nonetheless, South Korea remains a virtual police state. The former general had hardly seized power when he pushed through martial law and placed many of his enemies under house arrest. To this day, the press is muzzled and the spreading of "black rumors" against...
...strikes last week that left the country's public transportion completely paralyzed. In response, troops opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least four people. Mobs blocked off routes leading to the capital of Port-au-Prince and erected barricades of burning garbage and tires. The government quickly imposed a curfew and canceled all commercial airline flights...