Cases against several thousand people accused of such crimes as arson, rioting, looting and shooting were opened.
Prisoners convicted of serious crime, such as murder, arson, burglary, rape and shooting, would begin their time on the ground floor with a time of solitary confinement.
A Detroit man was arraigned today on charges of murder, assault and arson in a shooting spree and firebombing at a downtown office building that left a young woman dead and 38 persons injured.
David Van Horn served 20 years of a 40-year sentence for the 1995 arson murder of Norma Clouse, and for shooting two law enforcement officers, crimes he committed while high on methamphetamine.
Authorities sent about 5,000 army and paramilitary troops to the region with a mandate to shoot people suspected of arson and rioting on sight, said the Assam chief minister, Tarun Gogoi.
Three people were killed and a dozen injured in four separate bomb blasts in Thailand's war-torn deep south, police said on Saturday, while another four died from shooting and arson attacks.
They pleaded guilty to arson and burglary charges, and Mr. Moseley also pleaded guilty to animal cruelty for shooting a cow during what they have described as a night of drunken joy riding 45 miles south of Birmingham.
That decision came nine days after a Missouri grand jury chose not to indict a white policeman for the shooting death in August of an unarmed black teenager, spurring two nights of arson and unrest in a St . Louissuburb.
Three weeks later, after a police officer chased and fatally shot an unarmed nineteen-year-old black man, the city was engulfed in three days of riots, arson, and looting.
