"I am accepting this award on behalf of the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youth in the United States who are starving, lost and scared for their lives right now.
There's a small amount of cannon fodder in terms of runaways, drug addicts, prostitutes and tramps that are used.
Pursued by arrest warrants, the runaways holed up at an Oklahoma motel, offering visiting reporters interviews, cigars and whisky.
The nation's runaways then numbered in the millions.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Mr Shanley was a dark-haired crusader in jeans who ran a "street ministry" for addicts and runaways in Boston, a courageous champion of gay rights against the church hierarchy.
Searches of cells became more thorough and audits of tools in workshops and knives in kitchens more careful.As well as firearms, the Whitemoor runaways had bolt-cutters, a Stanley knife, an improvised torch and ropes fashioned from string and torn mattress covers.
So there is an incentive to drag back runaways, such as Mr Saito.At the Oshima stable in eastern Tokyo one morning this week, 11 wrestlers collided, grunted, panted and tumbled their way through morning practice.
So incensed was the sheriff about the state's indifference to the runaways that he commissioned a management audit of the DCFS's search for missing children.
In Saudi Arabia runaways find it hard to leave the country since they need to show their original residency papers, often held by the employer.
Muscovite beggars are generations older than the runaways and addicts who panhandle in western capitals.
A fire in a church-run reformatory for women was deliberately started by prostitutes and runaways who tried to escape; at least 38 women perished behind barred windows and doors.
