Word: arson
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After investigating the fire, the inspector decided to press felony charges of arson on Caudill and Corcillo...
What began as a series of pranks' among friends ended yesterday morning with a smoke-filled room, fire alarms, and the arrest of two Leverett House sophomores on charges of arson...
...students participating in the pranks freely admitted their involvement as the fire department and HUPD made reports on the fire, Natalie said. The fire department alerted an inspector from the arson squad, who arrived on the scene a short time later...
Overcrowding worsened following Alexander's election in 1978 after he persuaded the legislature to impose mandatory prison sentences without parole for such crimes as murder, aggravated rape, armed robbery and arson; about 75 such "Class X" inmates are now in state and county jails. By 1982 conditions had grown so bad that U.S. Judge L. Clure Morton declared the entire system unconstitutional because of overcrowding and poor recreational and health facilities. Alexander has proposed that Tennessee contract the privately run Corrections Corporation of America to build and operate two 500-bed prisons, a suggestion that has been shelved by skeptical...
...violence in Britain began in Brixton, a south London district with a predominantly black West Indian population. In two nights of arson and looting, 74 people were injured and more than 200 arrested. Brixton was especially hard hit by race riots in 1981, and the wounds they left had only just begun to heal...