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...German who was attacked by a shark, huge gouges taken from his arms and legs. Phronakson arrests about 10 foreigners a month, usually for drug possession. The word among foreigners is that for a 70,000 baht fine, about $1,800, the Thais will deport you rather than imprison you. As for the Canadian currently being held in the second-floor lock-up: according to detectives, he's ingested too much lamphong, a locally grown intoxicating flower that causes vivid hallucinations and can cause permanent psychological damage. They'll be shipping him to a psychiatric ward on the mainland...
...life sentences for gang rapists. Furthermore, FBI officials from the U.S. are training investigators and prosecutors who will be working in 20 courts devoted to trying sex crimes. These are scheduled to open in April 2000. Meanwhile, Smith refuses to give in to depression. The rapist, she says, "cannot imprison my mind. I have the power." She maintains that "God sent me this challenge. I have to turn this evil into good, and that is why I am speaking...
Nevertheless, Flynn said Christmas is on thedecline because of the growing number ofimmigrants. Whereas in the past, acceptance andassimilation served to imprison minorities, Flynnsaid today minorities tend to be assertive aboutwhat makes them unique...
...need for hate crimes legislation. Hate crime is a ridiculously broad-based and anti-populist construction. The mere fact that this brutal crime is top news means that it is a rarity. Further, society takes "hate crimes," or, more appropriately, "crimes," quite seriously. Many states execute convicted killers and imprison batterers for years. That's serious enough. Legislating the content of criminal motive confuses elite sentiment with proper jurisprudence...
...Mafia fighter was gunned down in 1982, a badly shaken government asked Arlacchi to devise a plan to confiscate the organization's assets. After the Mob fought back with bombs that killed Italy's top two prosecutors, Arlacchi helped create a program to arrest hundreds of top Mafiosi and imprison them on a remote island off the coast. They failed in an attempt to kill him with a bomb planted in a tollbooth on the autostrada. These days when Arlacchi cruises in the Mediterranean on his 40-ft. sailboat, the Italian navy often sends a cutter as an escort...