Those facilities typically hold youths who have committed nonviolent offenses equivalent to misdemeanors.
In 2007, more than half of the youths who entered detention centers were sent there for the equivalent of misdemeanor offenses, in many cases theft, drug possession or even truancy.
Whether lapses like these — symptoms of a care-and-attention deficit that runs throughout the book — constitute a literary equivalent of this offense is open to debate.
It's charged as a summary offense, equivalent to a traffic ticket".
Nearly all of the youths in nonsecure facilities have been placed there for the equivalent of nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, like truancy, graffiti or petty theft, and most are under 16 years old.
[Clarification: Meaning the White House should not become embroiled in defending a staff member, not that the alleged offenses are equivalent.].
In the Georg Solti years, the brass section was the equivalent of a Bears offense — hard, insistent, Chicago Way, and most of us thought we'd never hear the end of it.
Both versions reduce penalties for piracy to the equivalent of a traffic offense; require software makers to give the government details of the inner workings of their programs; and create an agency to rule on important digital copyright issues.
The charge is used often enough to punish people who have challenged the authorities that some human rights advocates consider allegations of illegally possessing or revealing state secrets the equivalent of a political offense under Mao.
"Baltimore's defense is the equivalent of last year's St . Louisoffense," he added.
