He appears regularly at law schools around the South, as well as in states covered by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, mostly in the northern Midwest. (Each Justice represents one or two Circuits, and Thomas long supervised the Eighth, though he no longer does.) Thomas rarely uses a prepared text, and often simply takes questions from students for an hour or more.

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In the context of probation, how much reward, if any, should a contractor get if an offender with a history of violent crime commits no offences of violence while supervised, but steals a chocolate bar from Tesco's?

BBC: Businessmen, lawyers and justice

Israel's Attorney General has ruled that no charges will be brought against jail staff who supervised the detainee known as "Prisoner X" who committed suicide in 2010.

BBC: Israel clears jail staff in Prisoner X suicide