Sentences with phrase «against a justice system»

With family members often present, the shame achieves far more penetration of the cold carapace so many young offenders wear to enure themselves against the justice system.

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It's thinking the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray are just «isolated incidents» when every statistic and study under the sun suggests the justice system is rigged against black men.

I want to encourage anyone facing any injustice to hang in there, particularly if you feel the system is against you — truth and justice will out!

Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).

That is perpetuating a system of nationalistic idolatry over and against cries for justice and equitable society.

Pursuing justice can be as simple as our choices as consumers or as involved as leading coalitions against the systemic injustices that plague our legal and educational systems here in the U.S. and abroad.

Today, abortion remains legal while a series of national stories involving police brutality against African American men and women have revealed to many another layer of inequality within the American criminal justice system.

Aren't there laws against public fraud, not that I'd agree with such laws at all, but are they not in place and if so, why wouldn't the «justice» system take action?

«I frankly don't know how I am going to come up with the rest of the money,» Thomson told Sun News Network's Brian Lilley on Byline.Canada's justice system has a knack for punishing people for defending themselves and their property, often called «castle law.MORE: Court drops final charge against Ontario man who fired shots to protect his home under attack by firebombers Joseph and Marilyn Singleton of Taber, Alberta spent $ 30,000 in court.

That does not quite square with a new NHL bylaw, enacted in June, that imposes a $ 1 million fine on any club that leapfrogs the NHL's internal justice system and goes right to the courts, as the New Jersey Devils did during the Wales Conference finals in May, when they obtained a temporary restraining order against the suspension of Devils coach Jim Schoenfeld.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called the allegations against his conference member, Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., «totally, totally unacceptable» and «deplorable,» adding: «I hope that the criminal justice system will deal with them to the fullest extent of the law.»

While New York has been a leader in protecting homeowners against foreclosures and defaults, the state should promote available mandated low - cost checking accounts to help poorer residents take advantage of the security of the banking system and avoid having their savings swallowed by various small bank fees, said attorney Kirsten Keefe of the Empire Justice Center.

«After decades of having a system that what it wants to do is strip away the dignity of individuals that have had some level of interaction with the criminal justice system, we're trying to put some humanity back,» she said, though she equivocated a bit when a reporter raised the possibility of a jail in her district, before concluding, «I wouldn't be against it.»

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

He listed his priorities in the campaign against corruption in 2018 to include, organising African Youth Congresses against Corruption «in order to sensitise and engage our youth in the fight against corruption;» mobilising AU member states to implement the extant legal framework on corruption; and canvassing «for the strengthening of the criminal justice system across Africa through exchange of information and sharing best practices in the enforcement of anti-corruption laws.»

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

Cuomo also outlined a plan to speed up the state's criminal justice process, and reform the bail system, and he proposed cashless tolling on the entire state Thruway, saying it's faster, and also more secure against potential terrorists.

While most MPs would run a mile from such a group, Davies has given a speech at their conference arguing that the British justice system favoured women and discriminated against men.

Romania's president says the European Union, after triggering proceedings against Poland for its justice system overhaul, may do so against Romania as well due to its own legal system changes that have sparked widespread protests.

These encompass basic security for all — including the protection of women against sexual violence...... that means a military that is effective and respects human rights...... it means a police force that people run towards not away from...... and it means a justice system that is fair, dependable and accessible to all who need it.

The governor proposed criminal justice reforms that were cheered by advocates, who say the current system discriminates against the poor and people of color, while also managing to double as an attack on his longtime frenemy, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Britain looks set to experience a modest revolution in its criminal justice system after the prime minister backed Ken Clarke's campaign against short sentences.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed criminal justice reforms were cheered Wednesday by advocates, who say the current system discriminates against the poor and people of color.

Davies, who sits on the Commons justice committee, told the conference at the ExCel centre in London that Britain's justice system was skewed in favour of women and discriminated against men.

«Not only should we close Rikers, but we need to take steps to ensure that the city's criminal justice system does not work against our young people and cause even greater pain and suffering.

A small but exasperated group of protesters gathered on Staten Island tonight to denounce a grand jury's vote not to bring criminal charges in the death of Eric Garner, accusing the Staten Island justice system and the NYPD of once more discriminating against communities of color.

A perjury charge against an acting district attorney «taints the very essence of who we are as prosecutors and goes against all that we strive to do to ensure the public's trust in the criminal justice system,» said DAASNY president and Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara.

Mr. Cuomo, reacting to the mass protests against police brutality that have convulsed the country since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., argued that «today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.»

It said, «The acquittal yesterday of the Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) of corruption charges suggests serious shortcomings in the criminal justice system, and means that a complementary and supportive mechanism in the form of a UN-backed commission against corruption and impunity in Nigeria is urgently needed to achieve President Muhammadu Buhari's oft - stated anti-corruption agenda.»

SERAP, therefore, urged the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, «to urgently and proactively pursue the establishment of a UN-backed International Commission Against Corruption and Impunity to assist our criminal justice system to effectively and efficiently investigate and prosecute high - level corruption cases in the country, like it happened in Guatemala, for example.

A large majority in the European Parliament voted in favor of the package this morning; and Yves Bot, advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union today said that pleas against the proposed system by Spain and Italy should be rejected.

Nichole Beharie as Dee Roberts gives a truly inspiring performance as a mother, living in the projects, who is wrongly accused of drug dealing, and then is caught up in a corrupted criminal justice system that railroads those who have little way of defending themselves against a system created to protect them.

With a justice system that is stacked against him even speaking in court, Marshall has to combat prejudice and the insidious manner it infects almost all.

Yes, the U.S. justice system is often terribly biased against black men, and yes, older white men sometimes say regrettable racist stuff.

Persona 5 is about how «justice» can beat on the innocent, people being treated unfairly by generalizations and taken advantage of by those in power, and rebelling against the system that allows that to happen.

This time, he's concocting bloody, convoluted vengeance against the men who destroyed his family and the system that doled out questionable justice — and in so doing, he becomes an amalgam of the Joker, the Riddler, and the Abominable Dr. Phibes.

The case against the Lowndes County public schools began in 1973 when the U.S. Justice Department filed suit in an effort to better integrate the school system's white and black students.

Carl Douglas: Do you think the criminal justice system discriminate against African - Americans?

any student discipline or referral action taken against a student / offender, including but not limited to an out - of - school suspension, a teacher removal, an involuntary transfer to an alternative placement, an in - school suspension, a referral for community service, a referral for counseling, or a referral to the juvenile justice system or the criminal justice system, and the duration of such action; and

Thursday, the fledgling public charter schools system faced the justices for a second time to defend against another aggressive maneuver...

There is no shortage of talking heads spouting vitriol against charter schools in the name of justice and equality and the dismantling of systems of oppression.

When the Journey 4 Justice Alliance (which is little more than a union - funded front group) filed a series of specious civil rights complaints against the school systems in Newark, Chicago, and New Orleans back in 2014, I wrote that the actions seemed to herald «a cynical shift in strategy by reform opponents» to paint charters in a racially - divisive light.

It keeps you entertained the entire time and really gives you some great insight into the criminal justice system and the lives of detectives as they work the most important case of their careers prosecuting a burglary case against OJ Simpson.

After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to «go along to get along,» Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as «a stark, passionate closing argument in [her] broader case against the criminal justice system» by the NY Times, which named it as a Notable Book of the Year.

With an eye for the absurdities of captivity, from the jailers» attempts at political «re-education» to the daily battle against rats and hunger, Townson candidly tells the story of his ordeal in «Hotel Fidel Castro,» along with the often outrageous tales of other foreigners trapped in the web of Cuba's twisted justice system.

Many in the short - term online lending industry were surprised by the announcement, which seems to be in lock - step with the current administration's Operation Choke Point, an initiative launched in 2013 by the United States Department of Justice, whose stated intent was to «attack Internet, telemarketing, mail, and other mass market fraud against consumers, by choking fraudsters» access to the banking system.»

From there, the idea of government responsibility in providing economic security and welfare grew, from unimaginable realities, such as the English Poor Laws of 1601 that called for the dependent poor population to wear a shameful P on their clothing, to shadows of our present Social Security system, like Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice that called for a system that included annual benefits of 10 pounds sterling paid to every person age 50 and older, to protect against poverty in old - age.

As William Young, then chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston observed in a 2004 opinion: «The focus of our entire criminal justice system has shifted away from trials and juries and adjudication to a massive system of sentence bargaining that is heavily rigged against the accused.»

Farmers, unions, social organizations, indigenous peoples, women and youth (at the national, regional and global level) have come together to demand climate justice and fight against the consumerist and extractivist model that, along with the capitalism and neoliberalism systems of the modern world, is harming Mother Earth.

The EU has included aviation emissions within its Emissions Trading System, facing down fierce opposition, including some US airlines, who unsuccessfully fought a case against the Commission in the European Court of Justice in 2011.