Word: imprison
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...area in which Republicans could be getting out ahead of the public mood is in the provisions that would imprison kids with adults, though not in the same cells. While reportedly 8,000 teens are already housed with adults, federal rules require "sight and sound" separation, meaning juveniles cannot be within reach of adults. Some corrections officials say that requires a pointless division of facilities used by both populations--for instance, two exercise areas when one could be shared. The Senate bill would override the complexities of the sight-and-sound rule by imposing a "no physical contact" provision, which...
...this experience hardly makes me a neo-Puritan supporter of the continuing war against marijuana users. It's despicable to criminalize and imprison thousands for marijuana possession, while the liquor and tobacco lobbies are destroying so many lives with advertising and campaign contributions. I told my kids that marijuana in moderation for medicinal, ceremonial and recreational use is defensible, especially in comparison with alcohol and tobacco. I also warned them that marijuana has never improved anyone's ability to do homework or hit a curve ball. It infuriates me that my kids, like millions of their generation, are defined...
...sick of politicians, as I am, of using children as political props and pawns while not supporting what children need, come stand with us," Edelman said. "What kind of values does a nation have when it is willing to pay $20,000 to imprison a youth but can not give even $1000 to support that youth earlier in life so that he or she never is imprisoned...
Chomsky described how the autonomy zones are separated, both from one another and from Egypt. He said the zones have been separated so that Israelis could easily imprison Palestinians either by closing roads or by imposing curfews...
Such sociological rancor can be therapeutic. But there are historical hatreds so strongly rooted, they imprison the hater. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $22.95) is the story of a young man's attempt to break from his father's inflamed obsession with anti-Semitism and its central event of this century, Hitler's Final Solution. Edgy with irony and urban humor, the book also gives a rare insider's view of an insular Jewish community that is as alien to mainstream American Jewry as it is to the rest of the country...