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- 1From:The EconomistPresident Nayib Bukele has locked up 19,000 people in a month O UTSIDE THE public defender's office in San Salvador, where lawyers employed by the state provide free legal counsel, the pavement throngs with people...
- 2From:The EconomistDespite Vladimir Putin's crackdown, people continue to take to the streets IN VLADIMIR PUTIN's Russia, holding a blank piece of paper can land you in jail. A handful of such cases have been documented, in which people...
- 3From:The EconomistTHE DEFENCE hangs on a technicality. In February 2020 Travis McMichael, a 35-year-old white man, shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man going for a jog near Brunswick, Georgia. Robert Rubin, Mr...
- 4From:The EconomistThe defendants in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery hope to seek refuge in a Civil War-era law THE DEFENCE hangs on a technicality. In February 2020 Travis McMichael, a 35-year-old white man, shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a...
- 5From:Art Monthly (Issue 445)A month has now passed since I was released from prison in Zhodino. I was imprisoned there for 15 days after being arrested for an alleged 'unauthorised protest' with my friend. We had in fact been taking photographs of...
- 6From:Reason (Vol. 52, Issue 9)AFTER RISING FOR three years in a row, marijuana arrests in the United States fell by 18 percent in 2019. Police made about 545,600 such arrests in 2019, according to the FBI, compared to about 663,400 In 2018. As...
- 7From:Education Week (Vol. 38, Issue 31)Byline: Tribune News Service An analysis of state data shows that the presence of police officers in Connecticut schools leads to a higher average of student arrests, but the impact on student achievement is...
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- 9From:The Economist (Vol. 428, Issue 9111)When Pharoah's around, then you get down on the ground The longer Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi rules, the less he tolerates criticism PITY the future historian who tries to decipher the workings of Egyptian courts. On...
- 10From:National Catholic Reporter (Vol. 54, Issue 12)On Feb. 27, I got arrested on Capitol Hill at the National Catholic Day of Action with Dreamers. My arrest was an expression of solidarity with "Dreamers" who face arrest and deportation if Congress or the president does...
- 11From:National Review (Vol. 70, Issue 3)A journalistic adage holds that "Dog Bites Man" is not news, while "Man Bites Dog" is. A case in point comes to us from Boscawen, N.H. Police there cornered a scofflaw with an outstanding warrant in a trailer, and when...
- 12From:Education Week (Vol. 36, Issue 19)In 43 states and the District of Columbia, black students are arrested at school at disproportionately high levels, an analysis of federal data by the Education Week Research Center finds. And one reason may be that...
- 13From:Reason (Vol. 48, Issue 5)A new study published by the Justice Department found that roughly 1,100 officers are arrested each year--or roughly 3 per day. The study, from researchers at Bowling Green State University, is thought to be the first...
- 14From:The Economist (Vol. 419, Issue 8994)A spate of assassinations provokes a heavy-handed response OVER the past three years, Islamist terrorists have killed more than 40 people in Bangladesh, usually by hacking them to death with machetes. The victims had...
- 15From:The Economist (Vol. 419, Issue 8994)Kingpin or pawn? Catching people-smugglers is hard, convicting them even harder WHAT'S in a name? For an Eritrean man hauled before a judge in Palermo, Sicily, on June 10th, the answer could be many years in an...
- 16From:The New York Times Magazine''There are very strict rules of engagement,'' says Jeromy McHenry, who owns a private security firm in California and has made over 1,000 citizen's arrests. Statutes governing when and how laypeople can arrest their...
- 17From:Latin Trade (Vol. 12, Issue 5)Mexican authorities issued arrest warrants for two executives of Altos Hornos de Mexico (Ahmsa), the country's largest steel producer, for tax evasion. The bankrupt Ahmsa says the company and its subsidiaries have made...
- 18From:The Christian Century (Vol. 125, Issue 12)A FEDERAL immigration raid with arrests of about 390 people at a meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa, has brought "devastation" to the community, said a Lutheran bishop at an ecumenical prayer service at a Catholic...
- 19From:Reason (Vol. 37, Issue 6)Fresno police sent three squad cars and a helicopter to arrest Maribel Cuevas, an 11-year-old girl who had thrown a rock at a group of boys who had pelted her with water balloons. When she saw she had hit one of the...
- 20From:The Economist (Vol. 384, Issue 8545)A terrifying sight A timely reminder of the risk of terrorism in Europe THE targets are said to have included Frankfurt airport, Germany's busiest, and an American air base. The collective power of the bombs would...