Sentences with phrase «as prison reforms»

So go see The Danish Girl this holiday season if you want a good cathartic cry, but then google some real trans issues, such as prison reform or blood donation.

Not exact matches

Advocates of this reform conceive of the abolition of prisons as a long - range goal.

The minutes of the 1870 Congress of the American Prison Association / American Correctional Association quote a Judge Carter of Ohio as saying that any system of imprisonment or punishment is degradation, and can not reform a man.

They work as pastors, preachers and priests, teachers and scholars, evangelists and missionaries, writers and editors, administrators of denominational, educational, social service and reform agencies, as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and military establishments.

Conscious of the suffering of prisoners and well aware that through the centuries many faithful Christians have been wrongfully imprisoned and put to death, Christians have emphasized the importance of visiting prisoners, have campaigned for prison and penal reform and have supported organizations such as Amnesty International that campaigns for prisoners of conscience.

The Prison Reform and Redemption Act of 2017, also known as H.R. 3356, gives eligible prisoners time credits and eligibility to complete their sentences under community supervision if they complete those programs.

As part of the new Prison Safety and Reform White Paper tackling the rise of violence, 300 dogs have been trained to detect psychoactive substances, and staffing levels will increase by 2,500.

But Juliet Lyons of the Prison Reform Trust challenged him over this attitude — which she referred to as «the Straw - Howard axis» — and over his and the last Government's record:

As for Aitken, I don't think he really has much to say about prison reform apart from the obvious (i.e. prison doesn't work at present and we must rethink rehabilitation not only for the sake of prisoners but for society at large).

Zellnor then went to Cornell Law School where he served as student body president, an editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, a constitutional law instructor in prison, and as a Pro Bono Scholar — a position that allowed him to take the New York Bar early and spend his last semester working full - time at Justice 360, a criminal justice reform organization.

Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.

In the last several weeks, the governor has made multiple moves on criminal justice reform, announcing that he would overhaul solitary confinement in state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decade.

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Skelos becomes the second of New York's most powerful political leaders in nine days to be sentenced to prison for public corruption crimes, a double - whammy that has cemented the state government's reputation as an organization plagued by corruption and prompted widespread calls for ethics reforms in Albany.

The rejected newsletters come as residents in the state's other main facility, the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy, are saying that they've been banned from participating in monthly conference calls where civil commitment issues are discussed with Bowers and other prison reform advocates.

«The task has been made even more difficult by the government's choice to limit reforms designed to combat what it describes as «the unsustainable rise in the prison population».»

He shadows Michael Gove, a man described by Blair biographer John Rentoul as the most Blairite minister in government, but Falconer is not impressed with Gove's «empty rhetoric,» on prison reform.

As an MP, a former criminal prosecutor and lawyer for victim support, it's my study of the state of prisons today and how to reform them.

Prison reform groups pointed to the endemic violence at Cookham Wood as evidence that young offenders were not being rehabilitated in pPrison reform groups pointed to the endemic violence at Cookham Wood as evidence that young offenders were not being rehabilitated in prisonprison.

Prison numbers stabilised over the past year as a result of Ken Clarke's liberal reforms, according to official projections.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan fired off a raft of parliamentary questions about Grayling's draconian prison reforms last month only to have them all dismissed as too expensive to answer.

His new — found concern is welcome, but unless the Governor is willing to reform his own embattled state prison system and court system, it's impossible to see his outburst as anything but political theatre.»

Categorized by prison reform groups as «extreme isolation,» life in what's known as «The Box» has been linked to mental breakdowns and even suicide.

Mr. de Blasio, at the news conference, denied knowledge of the recommendations of the commission, which was made up of criminal justice and prison reform advocates as well as real estate and business leaders.

As 2015 winds down, we're grateful to the dedicated volunteers and advocacy organizations who achieved victories in many areas, the Fight for $ 15, climate change, prison and sentencing reform among them.

There are 2.5 million people incarcerated today in the United States, and while it's rare for the experiences of these people to be given a public viewing such as Mariposa provides, public demands to reform prison conditions and to end mass incarceration are growing.

Unshackled from the Lib Dems he painted himself as a great social reformer, the «One Nation» Tory who would improve life chances, stamp out extremism and reform prisons.

All the reformers such as SCODA (the Standing Conference On Drug Abuse) and the Prison Reform Trust favour it, provided clear education is given on how to use it.

Fernando Bermudez, proven innocent in 2009 with help from pro bono lawyers from Washington, D.C. to New York continues sharing, as he puts it, his «survival story of enduring over 18 years in a six - by - nine - foot prison cell as a provocation for reform.»

Paul Giamatti (Sideways) and Paul Rudd (Ant - Man) have a great chemistry as two not - quite - reformed French Canadian ex-cons: the misanthropic Dennis (Giamatti), and the man who stole his wife while he was still in prison, the easy - going Rene (Rudd).

Schwarzenegger had built consensus in a fractured legislature on such difficult issues as workers» compensation, prison reform, and the largest package of public - works bonds in the nation's history.

In non-medical areas such as education, development aid and prison reform, randomised trials are rapidly catching on: thousands have been conducted.

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

The United States boasts the world's highest incarceration rate, with a staggering 24 percent of the world's total prison population, in easily the most widespread example of punishment masquerading as reform.

After the events of Skylanders ® Trap Team, Eon gave these Villains a choice — either go back to a newly reformed Cloudcracker Prison or become Skylander Senseis, teaching a new generation of Imaginators their formidable battle skills as well as how to stay clear of a life of crime.

After being captured by the Trap Masters, Eon gave these Krankcase a choice — either go back to a newly reformed Cloudcracker Prison or become a Skylander Sensei, teaching a new generation of Imaginators his formidable battle skills as well as how to stay clear of a life of crime.

This is not a really new concept but the incredible depth you can go through in the game such as setting out classes for reform, execution chambers, and highly detailed prison information, sets this game apart from other games in the genre.

Earn experience points by; taking part in reform programs, digging tunnels, creating a crew or hitting the gym and then plough those points into new skills such as the ability to swim across water, sabotage machinery, pick locks or bribe members of the prison staff.

This year's festival will directly address several pressing issues that are part of America's current sociopolitical landscape through performances and accompanying events, with highlights including an artist talk with dancers Jon Boogz and Lil Buck centered on dance as a tool for social justice and prison reform.

It meant collector Yusaku Maezawa crowning Basquiat as America's most expensive artist and Agnes Gund using art to help spark prison reform.

Thomasos became fascinated with the prison architecture that began to grow as the United States's incarceration rate climbed after Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971 and skyrocketed after Reagan's 1984 Sentencing Reform Act.

As Dr Laura Janes, Legal Director at the Howard League for Penal Reform (and founder of YLAL) commented: «The financial savings from reforms to prison legal aid are tiny.

Prop 47 is considered a significant step for criminal justice reform, as it rolls back outdated sentencing guidelines and safely reduces prison population and spending.

Earlier modes of isolation, such as those relied upon in nineteenth - century prisons, were thought to induce moral reform in the prisoner.

Although the government has had to shelve its plans for personal injury reform, as laid out in the Prisons & Courts Bill in the run up to the election it seems likely that they will be revived if the Conservatives are returned to power next month.

The Ministry of Justice is firmly in This - Is - Fine - Dog - meme - mode, and is pressing ahead with its plans to (a) further «reform» criminal legal aid (by shuffling the deckchairs in such a way as to amount, in some complex cases, to a 40 % cut); and (b) do absolutely nothing about the chronic underfunding of the courts, Crown Prosecution Service, police, Probation, prisons and many other decaying limbs of the criminal justice system.

Because sentencing reform in the form of the SRCA (or anything better) seems unlikely to move until there is a new President and / or Attorney General, criticizing efforts to move forward with just prison reform strikes me as tantamount to resigning oneself to the federal sentencing and corrections status quo until at least 2021.

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Instead of seeing prison as the common resort to crime, the report called for it to be seen as a last resort, and urged governments to pursue justice reinvestment reforms:

Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 1809 / S.860): This legislation provides protections for juveniles and ensures that public dollars are invested in a continuum of trauma - informed care and alternatives to incarceration and detention as a way to help dismantle the school to prison pipeline, reduce crime, and improve youth outcomes.