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...once caught with marijuana. The boy must be home between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., seven days a week, under a system of court-ordered curfews for young offenders, each curfew set individually by a judge. There had been worrisome signs of gang involvement in this case. A week ago, someone fired a shotgun blast into the second-floor porch, and the boy's parents still have pellets in their arms and legs...
...background checks on the boy's friends. When Stewart visits the apartment the next night to make sure the kid is still honoring the curfew and to search the place, he finds on the wall of a closet the roster of the Argyle Street Ballers, a small gang that sells drugs. "Now we know the players," he explains. "Now we can put the weight on them...
...each report on a gun charge from the Boston police department. Stern in turn uses federal indictments to help take down Boston's most dangerous youths. All data are fed into the computers of the Youth Violence Task Force, an elite 65-person unit that tracks and targets gang activity. "We made threats directly to gang members and then delivered on it," says Police Commissioner Paul Evans. A case in point is the Intervale Posse, for years one of the most vicious gangs in the city. Despite repeated warnings from state and federal authorities, Intervale continued to terrorize its Dorchester...
...According to a fateful 1886 Supreme Court decision, corporations are persons, entitled like anyone else to freedom of speech, even when they use it to promote the widespread consumption of a poisonous substance. They are not, however, persons who can be lethally injected or attached to a chain gang, no matter how wicked their crimes. In 1996, for example, Rockwell International was found guilty of causing an explosion that killed two company scientists. Pfizer manufactured a defective heart valve that caused 360 deaths worldwide. In all these cases, hefty fines were levied and stern statements were made, but no executive...
...Anonymous meetings that come with it, if that means people will no longer have to drive two towns over to see a dentist. In Hutchinson, Kans., they wonder whether the job security that comes with two new prisons is worth it when the relocated relatives of inmates are wearing gang colors to school...