Sentences with phrase «communities from the justice system»

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That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5

District Attorney Scott McNamara: «Anytime we can divert youth from the criminal justice system for low level, non-violent offences is beneficial to our community and the child.»

Mayor Robert Palmieri «As we continue to make the City of Utica and our community safer this is a vital step to diverting youth from our criminal justice system.

The program uses all the resources we have — the schools, our county departments, the District Attorney and all of our community partners — to prevent our teens and young adults from entering the criminal justice system.

«I'm voting for the progressive who will protect our planet from climate change and our communities from gun violence, who will reform our criminal justice system, and who believes that women's rights are human rights, and LGBT rights are human rights,» Chelsea Clinton said.

Owens concluded by acknowledging the limitations of a voucher system in improving the overall educational justice that has been diverted from our communities:

Her recent books include: The Growing Out - of - School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future (Information Age Publishing, 2018); The Future Directions of Educational Change: Social Justice, Professional Capital, and Systems Change (Routledge, 2018); «Empowering Teachers: The Role of School - Community Partnerships» (book chapter with IEL's Reuben Jacobson in Flip the System: Changing Education from the Ground Up, 2015); Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole - System Reform (Teachers College Press, 2013), The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press, 2012, co-authored chapter with Jeffrey Henig and Paul Reville).

Such outreach initiatives from within the courthouse, offered by librarians or lawyers from the local community, would help demystify the justice system and contribute not only to heightened legal literacy among the public, but also promote awareness of the expertise and services available to them from the legal professionals in their communities.

On November 2, lawyers from Miami Law's Health Rights Clinic, with Florida Legal Services and the Community Justice Project, sued DCF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on behalf of the Miami Workers Center, New Florida Majority, and a class of disabled individuals claiming that the system discriminated against persons with disabilities who could not endure these conditions.

The court can only adequately disassociate the justice system from the police misconduct and reinforce the community's commitment to individual rights protected by the Charter by excluding the evidence.

Over ten years» service as an officer and director of the Crime and Justice Foundation (now Community Resources for Justice) in Boston, a non-profit organization providing support and advocacy for individuals transitioning from the adult and juvenile criminal justice sJustice Foundation (now Community Resources for Justice) in Boston, a non-profit organization providing support and advocacy for individuals transitioning from the adult and juvenile criminal justice sJustice) in Boston, a non-profit organization providing support and advocacy for individuals transitioning from the adult and juvenile criminal justice sjustice systems.

Advocates and senators say mandatory minimums are a failed tactic from the war on drugs, one that has unnecessarily ensnared generations of people, particularly from communities of color, in the criminal justice system.

«We are excited to be partnering with the NL Sexual Assault Crisis and Prevention Centre on this major initiative, and also look forward to working with the Government of Canada, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and stakeholders from community organizations and the justice system all across the province.»

There seems to be a large consensus in agreement that tech and innovation will waltz in and cure the wicked ills of structural and systemic failures that deny marginalized communities from our civil justice system.

The daylong conference, sponsored by the law school and the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, a division of RAND, is titled «Transparency in the Civil Justice System» and will feature a series of panel discussions by leaders from the civil justice comJustice, a division of RAND, is titled «Transparency in the Civil Justice System» and will feature a series of panel discussions by leaders from the civil justice comJustice System» and will feature a series of panel discussions by leaders from the civil justice comjustice community.

By engaging directly with unrepresented persons experiencing family court issues, and incorporating feedback from other access to justice stakeholders, including lawyers, community service providers, judges and members of the public, points of difficulty within the system are identified and addressed.

And it was that support that allowed them to flourish and for everyone in the justice system to thus benefit from their knowledge, expertise, and desire to give back to their communities through their professional and volunteer work.

The guiding spirit behind [these guidelines] is to promote the commitment by those providing legal and related services to a deliberate use of technology to advance access to justice, particularly for members of communities facing exclusion from the legal system and barriers in using technology.

I have mediated in a wide range of settings, from a community mediation program with youth in the juvenile justice system, to public schools, to divorce and elder care mediation, serving families throughout Southern California from Pasadena.

Too many children, families and communities have been harmed by our punitive and ineffective child protection and youth justice systems, we owe it to them to ensure each and every recommendation from the Royal Commission is pursued with vigour from all levels of government,» said Shahleena Musk, a Senior Lawyer at the Centre.

Unequivocally, discriminatory laws in Australia must be removed from current statutes and decolonising law needs to be understood as legislatively incorporating: listening and responding to Indigenous voices and knowledge; implementing culturally safe systems; and allowing for the retention of community control justice programs.

We thank all those donors, including premium donors Jesuit Social Services and Frank Meany from One Vision, and the 70 plus contributors from across Australia, including academics, policy makers, community members and people with lived experience of the justice system.

Community reintegration services for those with co-occurring mental health and substance related disorders who are transitioning from the justice system

recognize that the problems affecting Aboriginal juveniles are so widespread and have such potentially disastrous repercussions for the future that there is an urgent need for governments and Aboriginal organizations to negotiate together to devise strategies designed to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are involved in the welfare and criminal justice systems, and, in particular, to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are separated from their families or communities, whether by being declared to be in need of care, detained, imprisoned or otherwise.

The Forum on Vulnerable Young Francophones in Minority Communities who are at risk of becoming involved with the justice system brought together officials from federal institutions and representatives from community organizations to discuss the needs of this target population.

expanding the capacity of ACCHOs and other services as required to establish and / or build on existing interdisciplinary mental health and social and emotional wellbeing teams that can work effectively with or coordinate health care for people at risk of imprisonment while in the community and work to divert them from potential contact with the criminal justice system;

The series — to be published as an e-book — will also incorporate stories from community members telling of their experiences with the justice system, the impacts of over incarceration, and their ideas for how to create a fairer system.

It calls on governments to establish an independent justice reinvestment body, to promote redirection of resources from the criminal justice system to community - led, place - based initiatives addressing the drivers of crime and incarceration.

STRIVE can be adapted for other at - risk populations and is currently being adapted for adolescents who are re-entering the community from the juvenile justice system.

Within this multilayered context, the young Minuchin grew up as an Argentinean Jew, not only embracing the Hispanic code of honor but also relying on his family and community for protection from the anti-Semitic undertones of the host culture — a complex experience that sensitized him to the workings of families and larger systems and to the need for interdependence, mutual loyalty, and social justice.

She has worked in a number of clinical settings, including community mental health centers and within the juvenile justice system, across different modalities of treatment, from individual to group.

It argues that Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system can not be seen in isolation from the broader canvas of Indigenous peoples» socio - economic marginalization, and that the development of community justice mechanisms must be accompanied by a return of control and decision - making processes to Indigenous peoples.