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Inside / Out follows Patrick Keating's journey as a child growing up in Montreal, getting into drugs and crime, entering the juvenile detention system at the age of 16, and serving a total of three sentences, one for bank robbery.

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In March, 2011, the President signed an executive order that would «create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security,» commented The Washington Post.

Cares enormously about children in resettlement camps, who must drink water to fill their stomachs because there is no food; he cares about shivering women at Nyanga whose flimsy plastic shelters are being destroyed by police; He cares that the influx control system together with Bantunization are destroying black family life not accidentally but by deliberate government policy; He cares that people die mysteriously in detention; He cares that something horrible is happening in this country when a man will often mow down his family before turning the gun on himself; He cares that life seems so dirt cheap (cited in Maimela 1986:43).

However, it soon becomes clear that Collateral is being painted on far broader canvas — including a catalogue of British institutions from parliament to the police, as well as the Church, security services and, at its heart, an impenetrable detention system.

In fourth place is an anonymous account from a guard in an immigration detention centre who explained why working in a system which detains people who have never committed a crime, keeps him up at night.

Ministers have previously acknowledged flaws in the system, which was introduced under the Terrorism Act 2005 after the law lords ruled the indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge at Belmarsh prison was unlawful.

Britain's immigrant detention system facing what could be its greatest ever crisis, after a damning report by MPs and peers was released amid a continued scandal over racism and violence at Yarl's Wood

Mr. Lippman has been an advocate of reforming the bail system — Rikers Island is mainly a pre-trial detention facility, and many of its inmates are there because they can not afford to post bail — and of raising the age of criminality, two things that would both reduce the size of the Rikers Island population, which is already at an all - time low despite increasing violence there.

The Fortune Society's Reentry Debate Team was joined by members of the New York State Legislature, The City Council, and the Mayor's Office, for a parliamentary debate held on Dec. 19 at the Ford Foundation on ending pretrial detention and the cash bail system in New York state.

National: The New York Times Magazine takes a deep look at what it's like to go through the «purgatory» of the immigration detention system.

Notable mandates: Canadian counsel to MeadWestvaco Corp. in international restructuring and spinoff of a division to another public entity, valued at around $ 500 million; counsel to Skyline Commercial REIT in its multi-phased acquisition of 46 commercial properties from Conundrum Capital for a purchase price of around $ 242 million; Canadian counsel to Ralcorp Holdings Inc. in cross-border acquisition by ConAgra Foods Inc., a transaction with a total value of more than US$ 9 billion; lead external legal counsel to Puerto Rico Public - Private Partnerships Authority in relation to the authority's first greenfield design - build - finance - maintain project (a juvenile detention and social treatment facility); advisor to Ghana Grid Co. Ltd. in relation to development of market rules for the Ghanaian electricity system.

Prior to joining the ILRC, Lena was a Soros Justice Fellow at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, where she supported local campaigns against ICE detainers, provided training and education on the detention and deportation system, and litigated constitutional rights cases related to ICE enforcement.

«I've been practising in this area for a long time,» says Jackman, but it wasn't until she assisted in Ogiamien v. Ontario, 2016 ONSC 3080 — a case involving two inmates, one of them an immigration detainee since 2013, who successfully argued that their Charter rights were violated by lockdowns at a Milton jail last year — that she realized «there's no structure to the detention system.

But even closure of the detention operations at Guantanamo Bay would not itself terminate the military commissions system.

what are the conditions, the understandings, the agreements that would need to be in place in order to return those young people who are in detention centres, to keep those young people who are at risk of incarceration from coming into contact with the criminal justice system, and

As children absconded from places where they did not feel at home or where they felt unsafe and lonely or to be with other children who had become their family, the next step was contact with the criminal justice system and ultimately detention.

Senator Patrick Dodson, Labor's shadow assistant minister for Indigenous affairs, called on the Government to take a broader look at the justice system and detention, not just the Don Dale centre.

The Prime Minister's initial announcement was that it would be joint NT / federal Commission into the treatment of children held in the Don Dale Detention Centre, but NT Chief Minister Adam Giles flagged later that, as he and the Federal Attorney General George Brandis worked to negotiate the terms of reference, he would like it to «look at some of the root causes... why children are entering the youth system in the Northern Territory... recognising that there are children who are being neglected, unloved, getting into trouble, causing trouble in the streets, and finding their way into our detention facilitieDetention Centre, but NT Chief Minister Adam Giles flagged later that, as he and the Federal Attorney General George Brandis worked to negotiate the terms of reference, he would like it to «look at some of the root causes... why children are entering the youth system in the Northern Territory... recognising that there are children who are being neglected, unloved, getting into trouble, causing trouble in the streets, and finding their way into our detention facilitiedetention facilities.»