Word: jails
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With so much public anxiety, the city hasn't hidden its preparations against the protests. Since the White House's selection of Pittsburgh in May as the site for the summit, the city has said it is readying up to 1,000 jail cells for protesters, importing 3,100 law-enforcement officers from around the country to supplement its 900-member force and mobilizing 2,000 National Guard troops. The city council passed new laws (set to expire on Sept. 30) targeting the possession of certain tools and "noxious substances" - items allegedly thrown or used to blockade space at protests...
...most of all, Detroiters are proud of their city. They fight to open charter schools. To jail criminals and bring back the rule of law. To band together and renew their neighborhoods. To open restaurants, stores and clinics. To make great music and try to beat the Yankees...
...There used to be a blank space on maps of East Berlin where the Hohenschönhausen jail stood. Germany's secret police, the Stasi, employed one officer for every 180 G.D.R. citizens and had a network of 180,000 informers. Those who fell foul of the system paid a heavy price. "This is not a museum," insists Cliewe Juritza as he leads a group through the former prison. "If you visit a Baroque palace, you ponder on times that are closed. These times are not closed...
...G.D.R. earned hard currency and rid itself of dissidents by literally selling thousands of political prisoners.) Yet some Ossis still think Juritza and his fellow prisoners deserved their punishment. He tells of falling into conversation with an old man on a Berlin street. When Juritza mentioned his stint in jail, the old man erupted in fury. "Someone forgot to kill you," he said...
...There are more than 700 women still in the prison who have got no one to pay for them.' LUBNA HUSSEIN, a Sudanese journalist convicted of wearing pants that were deemed "indecent" under Sudanese law. She was released from jail after her union paid a $200 fine...