Sentence examples for its indigent from inspiring English sources

Past him was Hart Island, just east of City Island, where the city buries its indigent and unclaimed bodies in mass graves in a potter's field.

Unlike any other state, Louisiana pays for its indigent defense system primarily through speeding tickets and other locally generated revenue, rather than guaranteeing funds through the budgeting process.

Good Intentions Goal Was to Draw Top Legal Talent In the 1960's, when New York City organized its indigent defense system, the idea of assigning all homicide cases to top-notch private lawyers seemed like an act of beneficence befitting a city with one of the highest concentrations of lawyers in the country.

Los Angeles County's health department, the provider of last resort, is sagging under its own budget woes, and it adopted complex patient-transfer policies that have shifted an increasing number of its indigent patients to private hospitals, which are in barely better financial shape.

On Thursday, Dec. 20, a morgue truck carrying Mr. Melfi's body drove to a dock on City Island in the Bronx and took a five-minute ride by ferry to Hart Island, where the city has buried its indigent and unknown since 1869.

With a mere 86 beds but a loyal clientele, drawn from the capital's political elite and its indigent and powerless, the hospital shut down because of a lack of cash that its managers and outside experts attributed to inadequate and tardy insurance payments.

Prior to joining the ACLU of Massachusetts, Jessie settled a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit in Prater v. Detroit Police Department, resulting in a new policy to ensure that pregnant officers were protected against discrimination on the job, and briefed Duncan v. Granholm, a class action lawsuit which challenged the state of Michigan to reform its broken indigent defense system.

Far from diminishing Legal Aid, Mr. Ferrer said, he would expand its role to make it "the indigent defender of choice".

Arizona wouldn't sign up until 1982, but once its counties ran out of money for the indigent, it changed its mind.

Snug Harbor hasn't housed old sailors since the nineteen-seventies, by which time America's expanding social-safety net had depleted its supply of indigent former mariners.

The Supreme Court reaffirmed its stance against indigent people going to jail for debts in a 1983 decision, Bearden vs. Georgia.