Word: imprisonments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Bush asked Congress to allocate $4.7 billion to the federal-prison system, projecting a 32% increase in inmates over the next five years, a jump largely fueled by mandatory drug sentences. Some $40 billion a year is already being spent by federal and state governments to prosecute and imprison drug offenders and to try to stem the flow of narcotics across the border. Drug use is down during the past 20 years, which is one important marker of success. But drugs are cheaper, purer and more plentiful than ever. More than three-quarters of Americans tell pollsters that...
...that will achieve justice for Kendra Webdale, who died seemingly because a state government wanted to be seen as holding firm on cutting costs. Meanwhile, Andrew Goldstein's nightmare continues, prolonged as it has been for years by a system that failed to treat him and now wants to imprison him for acts foreshadowed in letters ten feet high. Pushed by the voices that impel him to strike and hurt, he has dropped into free fall through a social safety net so tattered that he will have to become a raving performing seal on the stand just to prove what...
...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...