Sentences with phrase «administrative segregation for»

In contrast, under the regime challenged in this case, federally incarcerated persons can be placed in administrative segregation for a variety of vague and general reasons, such as belief on the part of prison administrators that the prisoner threatens the safety of the prison or anyone in the prison.

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This paper uses administrative data for the public K - 12 schools of North Carolina to measure racial segregation in the public schools of North Carolina.

The challenge specifically addresses administrative segregation, and follows a settlement that the BCCLA won for a Saskatchewan woman who had been held in solitary confinement in a British Columbia prison for more than 3.5 years.

The Correctional Service Canada («CSC») procedure known as administrative segregation (similar to solitary confinement) authorizes the placement of inmates in small cells for up to 23 hours a day without meaningful human contact.

In this case, lawyers for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada were asking the Court to end administrative segregation in federal penitentiaries in Canada.

I am satisfied that the statutory review of the decision to segregate is procedurally unfair and contrary to the principles of fundamental justice because the procedure chosen provides that the Institutional Head is the final decision maker for admission, maintenance and release from administrative segregation and is the final institutional decision - maker of required reviews and hearings which occur immediately after an inmate is segregated.

By contrast, administrative segregation can be imposed with little process, for indefinite periods of time and often for highly general reasons that prisoners do not know in advance.

In 2013, the Liman Report revealed how, along with disciplinary and voluntary segregation, all of the forty - seven American jurisdictions studied provided for some form of administrative segregation.

Those denied bail in the Toronto 18 terrorism prosecutions were subject to prolonged detention in administrative segregation, and for the most part, had little success challenging their conditions of confinement.