Sentences with phrase «bad jail conditions»

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

So in effect, the sentencing function is turned over to the Crown as a way of coping with, increasing pre-trial jail populations, bad jail conditions, and case loads.

Such change is an attempt to counteract overcrowded and lengthening pre-trial custody in very bad jail conditions due to very inadequate government funding of such facilities

Not exact matches

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration said Wednesday it will demand quick, efficient fixes to conditions at the Rikers Island jail complex and to four upstate jails that a watchdog commission has deemed the worst local jails in the state.

«There is violence and there are bad conditions at the jail and he hasn't made actions to reverse that, where it's his responsibility,» said Diebold.