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Banishment Laws Revived Among Indians; Some Native Tribes Are Renewing Practice to Help Deal With Gangs and Drugs
; Banishment, long regarded as the ultimate punishment among American...ways to deal with gangs and drugs. Generations ago, banishment meant casting offenders out and making them fend for...the latest to revive the practice. The band approved a banishment law last fall and used it against three young people... Read more
Get out of the county, stay out of jail: ; Georgia prosecutor likes to use banishment as an alternative to confinement
; ...convict somebody else's problem. Still, banishment persists in Georgia and Kentucky and...ancient Greeks and Romans. "Nationwide, banishment - which used to be a very popular punishment...advocates alternatives to prison, said banishment is "pretty far out there in terms of... Read more
Practice of banishment might not be such a bad idea as a punishment for crime. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
; ...may yet make famous the practice of banishment in the Thlawaa Tlingit Nation of Alaska...medical bills. At the end of the year of banishment, the boys will have to work at the tribal...makes it back to society. Prison is banishment, too, a period of enforced separation... Read more
TLINGIT MAN SAYS HE'S TRANSFORMED AFTER YEAR ALONE THE LESSONS OF BANISHMENT.(News)
; ...in Lynnwood. Roberts said his year of banishment transformed him. Away from the ``negativity...There was nothing negative about my banishment,'' Roberts said softly, lighting a cigarette...because he did not hit Whittlesey. The banishment was widely publicized as an experiment... Read more
BULGARIA: Romany man protests against his family's banishment
; A Bulgarian Romany man sets himself on fire by the presidency building in Sofia yesterday, in protest against the banishment of his family by other Romany people after a dispute. He survived the incident Petar Ganev Read more
Teens' Banishment By Tribal Court Seen as a Failure
; ...enduring at least some of the hardships of banishment, now may face the same prison terms...wearing a portable stereo, a violation of banishment rules intended to deprive the youths...out to the teens. "The whole notion of banishment was a fiction," said Seth Fine, deputy... Read more
Red Lake Tribal Council enacts banishment as a penalty for drug crimes
; ...Prohibited Drug Crimes Tribal Code. Banishment as a means of punishment for drug related...Council then voted approval. The new Banishment provision is confined exclusively to...nation-wide, that have resurrected banishment in an attempt to effectively fight the... Read more
Alaska Teens to Begin Year of Banishment
; ...Seattle were to begin a year or more of banishment on remote islands Saturday, a tribal...he said the tribe would monitor the banishment. Allendoerfer agreed to delay sentencing...Klawock tribunal, saying the temporary banishment offered the best hope for reforming... Read more
8th Circuit Court of Appeals hears arguments in Penn banishment case
; ...Isaac Dog Eagle. Dog Eagle issued the banishment order based on allegations made by Standing...Alive. Penn was not notified of the banishment proceedings until she was served the order of banishment. The banishment order was served on... Read more
Is a tribal court's ex parte banishment legal? or "patently unconstitutional"?
; ...03-29-2002 Can a tribal court order the banishment of a non-Indian: forcible removal from...obligated to enforce such a tribal court banishment order, particularly when he has personal...reasons given by the tribal court for banishment is false? And - given 'tribal sovereignty... Read more

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