Sentences with phrase «for vagrancy»

Young, African - American men would be picked up on street corners, arrested for vagrancy and sold to private coal mines, turpentine camps, lumber yards.

If you refuse to leave then, I suppose you might get arrested for vagrancy or trespassing (both of which are perfectly constitutional things to get arrested for).

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If vagrancy and loitering charges are combined with those for drunkenness, the total reaches about 3 million annually.

For starters, it helps communities drive down steep social costs associated with abandoned buildings — such as increased vandalism, vagrancy and arson, which in turn lead to reduced property values, lower tax revenues and higher crime.

Braamfontein has evolved from a rundown area with concerns about crime and vagrancy in the early 2000s, to being the fourth - largest node for office space in the city of Johannesburg and home to a number of South African - based multinational corporations as well as one of the country's premier educational institutions, the University of the Witwatersrand.