vagrancy

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Now he’s vying to be the first homeless mayor of a city overwhelmed by vagrancy, disorder and crime.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

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

Reviewing the case in 1970, the court vindicated Ms. Adickes, calling the vagrancy charge “groundless.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

Another man, I don’t remember his name, asked, “Are they rough on the vagrancy law down there?”

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson