vagrancy

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In essence, it was a vagrancy ordinance by another name.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

Once released from prison, she emigrated to New York where in 1902 there is a record of her being placed in a workhouse as punishment for vagrancy.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

Many were jailed for petty offenses like loitering and vagrancy.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

Whyte said that since in-person court hearings have stopped, the neighborhood had hired a homeless outreach coordinator to try to address vagrancy in the neighborhood.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2022

Lafayette’s reputation in the black community was raised another notch when he went to court to fight his arrest and jailing on a false charge of vagrancy.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman