Word: jails
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...chose mostly D’s, your study style is...”Jail.” You probably got caught driving drunk in September, spent the next seven months violating your probation, and are now shocked that a triple threat like yourself may be considered an actual threat to society. You are probably afraid of being violated. What you don’t know is that your new roommates have all already watched “One Night in Paris,” and they're kind of, um, not interested...
...storm, had 207 cases in the same period where cops waited up to three hours with patients picked up for mental health disorders, or had to drive miles to a suburban ER that could admit them. In many cases, police are bypassing hospitals altogether and taking detainees to jail - an often harrowing destination for the mentally ill, but a place where they can at least receive treatment for the immediate crisis. "That's the Dark Ages," Ebbert says. "That's how we did this in the 1200s. We need to treat these people with the quality care that they deserve...
...stabbed to death as rival gangs battled for control. Inmates often rebel or go on hunger strikes to protest long procedural delays that leave them locked up for years before they're given a sentence. The Venezuelan Prison Observatory, a Caracas-based NGO, says that the country's jail system has the worst homicide rate in Latin America, calculating that 22 of every 1,000 inmates died violently...
...women's jail is more pleasant, with an open-air courtyard and views of surrounding hills. But inmates there say only eight guards watch over some 270 prisoners, and they don't have pepper spray or handcuffs. "It's not the good Venezuelans that are here; it's the thugs," said one foreign inmate there. "If they decided to take over the place, they could...
...District Attorney Michael Jackson, who is not related to the victim, said Thursday that in probing the four-decade-old case, he learned that Fowler also shot a detainee to death in 1966 at the city jail in Alabaster and struck his superior officer...