Sentences with phrase «detention centers»

Detention Officers oversee the security and safety of inmates in such institutions as jails, courtrooms, and juvenile detention centers.

Convicted violators can be sentenced and be placed in detention centers as well as required to participate in community programs.

Who is being placed in these detention centers and for what reasons?

Have you ever thought to yourself what are immigration detention centers?

The court determined that KRS 441.510 (2) was «not clearly written because it fails to take into account who is responsible for the transportation of state inmates housed in county jails or detention centers.»

Following her clerkship, Tammy was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, where she founded the Center's Juvenile Justice Project, helping children incarcerated in juvenile detention centers and prisons.

To accomplish the goal of providing free legal service to asylum - seekers and access to justice to immigrants, PAIR conducts asylum intakes, screenings and consultations for detained immigrants, and «Know Your Rights» presentations in detention centers and in immigrant communities across Massachusetts.

The Legal Orientation Program provides basic legal information to 53,000 immigrants a year in federal detention centers in 16 states, Bass said in the statement on Wednesday.

The U.S. attorney's office says the pair engaged in fraud by taking millions of dollars from unnamed persons in connection with the construction and operation of juvenile detention centers.

Two former presiding judges of the Luzerne County, Penn., Court of Common Pleas are scheduled to appear in federal court in Scranton this week to enter guilty pleas on charges that they took more than $ 2.6 million in kickbacks related to the construction of juvenile detention centers in the county.

South Florida is home to two major ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention centers: Krome Service Processing Center in Miami and Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach.

It is actively under consideration in Pennsylvania, where two judges of the Court of Common Pleas were accused of routing juveniles to detention centers in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks.

It calls for divesting from private prisons and immigrant detention centers, companies which violate indigenous sovereignty.

Addressing issues such as the politics of institutionalized care in hospitals and military detention centers, the FDA's ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, and the challenges posed by medical treatments of cancer and HIV, In the Power of Your Care proposes that health care as a human right can be upheld through community - based efforts and policy change.

-- For documentary and photojournalism, photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black for their «Negative Publicity,» a project that looked at the CIA's use of secret detention centers during the war on terror.

Haram eh Massoumeen va Shohad ha (Threshold of the Innocents and Martyred,) brings together those who have experienced this violence, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Los Angeles, Oakland, New York City, in the crossings of borders, in detention centers or prisons.

Mr. Myers, an illustrator, said his visits to schools and juvenile detention centers made him realize that children needed to realize that their own lives could give them models of success beyond what they find in the lyrics and videos of so much popular music.

Fifteen minutes later, we were driving away from the matrix of detention centers toward an empty part of the base.

This program, in the works now for over 7 years, takes dogs to visit detention centers to talk about what it means to be humane, kind, merciful, and compassionate.

I hope they were sent to separate detention centers for delinquents for at least 3 years.

Animal charities run the gamut from animal welfare to animal rights and include organizations that place service dogs with handicapped owners and groups that use the human / animal bond to bring love and trust to people in nursing homes, prisons, and juvenile detention centers.

Unlike service animals that help people with physical or mental difficulties, therapy animals visit a range of places, from convalescent homes and hospitals to juvenile detention centers and mental health centers.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Film clips from the documentary are used in elementary and middle school presentations, county juvenile detention centers, libraries, and community centers in presentations to educate children and adults on the importance of responsible pet care.

groups that use the human / animal bond to bring love and trust to people in nursing homes, prisons, and juvenile detention centers;

Our Pet - Assisted Therapy program brings the joys of animals to people who are otherwise unable to have an animal in their life, such as those living in facilities such as convalescent homes, hospitals, mental health centers, children's homes and juvenile detention centers,» says Judith Eisenberg, Pet - Assisted Therapy Coordinator for the San Diego Humane Society.

For more than 30 years, the P - AT program has been sharing the joy of animals with community members of all ages in a range of care facilities, from convalescent homes and hospitals to juvenile detention centers, mental health centers and homes for medically fragile children.

The Pet - Assisted Therapy program shares animals with people of all ages in care facilities such as nursing homes, hospitals and juvenile detention centers.

Economics aside, just like the character in The Leavers, most of the people in detention centers are hard working, struggling, loving people trying to make better lives for themselves and their families.

Many children were held in crowded detention centers while the U.S. Congress looked to act on an immigration bill with potential ramifications for future waves of migrants.

A biological disaster has occurred, «evolution has reversed,» and pregnant women are sent to detention centers so they can be monitored.

Instead, ICE is violating federal law by placing them in detention centers halfway across the country from where they live, putting them in danger of being molested and assaulted.

The Office of Specialized Education Facilities and Family Engagement is responsible for educational services in state - operated programs, including hospitals, juvenile detention centers, mental health facilities, and the Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center.

This CFC - J curriculum finds success in unique settings, with regular implementation in juvenile detention centers and orphanages.

The hunger strike began the day before Thanksgiving at two different detention centers in California and one in Alabama by men from South Asia and East Africa, mostly from Muslim - majority countries.

Programs for these students bear names like continuation schools, community schools, and opportunity schools, and include educational offerings in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers as well as comprehensive high schools.

If we don't continue to have real conversations about the state of education, we'll see more public schools closed and utilized for detention centers and jails.

Philadelphia, like most urban school districts, spends a significant amount of money on things most suburban districts do not, such as increased security measures, school police, metal detectors, non-teaching hallway patrols, health services, detention centers, discipline schools, teen parenting centers, daycare, nurseries, and non-English-speaking classes.

In the following lesson plan, which is in line with common core standards, students will investigate educational resources in order to learn about irregular migrant detention centers.

It's also important to note that the justice system does not spell an end for a student; research cited in the presentation shows when juvenile detention centers are designed to look less like prisons, students have better outcomes in their return to academics.

Carlton Ashby: They Are All Our Children Any impact I have had on the lives of kids I visit in juvenile detention centers is overshadowed by the impact they have had on mine.

«Our volunteer therapy teams go into schools, libraries, after - school programs, detention centers, and hospitals where kids are in long - term wards,» says Paula Dalby, READ's national coordinator.

After HGSE, I plan to continue working as an advocate for reform of the U.S. immigration system and the elimination of immigration detention centers.

Rodriguez says she cooked meals, purchased winter coats, helped parents fill out job applications, visited juvenile detention centers, attended funerals.

Rizzo — who screens the film at juvenile detention centers around the country — is the first to point out that some audiences can and will find the film's subject matter challenging.

Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), the son of late champ Apollo Creed — Sylvester Stallone's respected nemesis in the first two Rocky films — is rescued from a delinquent childhood spent bouncing between foster homes and detention centers by Mary Anne Creed (Phylicia Rashad), Apollo's widow.

She continues to work with underprivileged children and as a volunteer at juvenile detention centers.

Others have shared practices with physicians, chiropractors, and mental health professionals, as well as affiliations with drug detoxification programs, detention centers, and veterinary practices.

She's taught in juvenile detention centers and prisons and believes in the power of mindfulness as a tool for restorative justice.

The teachers coming out of those Trainings are starting their own programs in prisons and detention centers far and wide.

More than 1700 teachers have taken PYP Training and are now conducting classes in more than two hundred prisons, countless jails, reentry and rehab facilities, youth detention centers, womens» prisons and work camps.