Sentences with phrase «die in custody»

Concern is expressed that Aboriginals continue to die in custody at a rate comparable to that which led to the appointment of the Royal Commission.

Minimising the number of our people who die in custody requires a commitment in policy and practice to use arrest and imprisonment as a last resort.

Punitive approaches to criminal justice issues in the states and territories are entrenched, incarceration rates of Indigenous peoples are on the rise and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to die in custody.

This is somewhat ironic since the stories of black people who die in custody here rarely make the news at all.

Sean Rigg who died in custody in 2008, as Andrew Birks, one of five officers that have been investigated over the death of Rigg has claimed that his prolonged suspension is unlawful.

The politician believes he was targeted over a signed picture of the footballer Lionel Messi he had planned to send to the widow of a dissident who died in custody.

PC Andrew Birks, who is under investigation regarding a man who died in custody, is at the High Court... More

For over forty years, families of black people (usually men) who died in the custody of our police, prisons or detention system have been asking the same question as Bland's family has: «How on earth did this happen?»

«We welcome this inquiry, which will help us to understand how and why Mr. Mousa died in our custody.

The United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) is a coalition of families and friends of those who died in the custody of police, prison staff, secure psychiatric hospitals or immigration detention centres.

In response to new developments related to the death of Mrs. Raynette Turner, an African - American mother of 8 who died in the custody of the Mt. Vernon Police Department, Mt Vernon Councilman and Mayoral Candidate Richard Thomas issued the following statement:

A suspected kidnap kingpin, Anthony Ogbalor a.k.a, Dracula has died in the Custody of the Delta State Police Command in Asaba.

Turning his attentions to Thailand, Refn's film puts Gosling's kickboxing promoter / drug dealer Julian on a collision course with corrupt sword - wielding supercop Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm)-- a man so terrifying he cleanses himself after torture sessions with a relaxing bout of karaoke — after his morally base brother dies in his custody.

We had the recent case where a police office arrested a women after she refused to put out a cigarette during a stop (where the office was going to give a warning and the woman died in custody).

In other words, Indigenous people died in custody in great numbers because there were in custody in great numbers.

Tragically, just a few days after this speech was delivered, a 40 - year - old Aboriginal man died in custody in the NT — the second such death there in less than a month.

«The Royal Commission found that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people died in custody in disproportionate numbers because they were in custody in disproportionate numbers,» Commissioner Gooda said.

As long as laws like these continue, incarceration rates will remain unacceptably high, and too many Indigenous people will be at risk of dying in custody.

On 21 May 2015, Warlpiri man, Mr Kumanjayi Langdon, died in custody of heart failure, around three hours after being detained under the paperless arrest powers.

Nearly 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (the Royal Commission) published 339 recommendations for change, it is unacceptable that our people are still dying in custody after minor offending.

Not exact matches

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Mr Birks was the senior officer involved in the arrest of Sean Rigg, who died in police custody back in 2008.

Twenty - six cases of people in the 1990s who died unexpectedly while in police custody after being doused with pepper spray might be explained by a toxic reaction caused by capsaicin in the spray.

Here is the reality of my divorce: Despite the fact that the court appointed custody evaluator ruled parenting during the marriage was joint, a vocational evaluation that concluded my ex-wife could make just as much money as me, joint custody of the children post marriage (although in reality they were with me much more often), pretty good evidence my ex-wife committed fraud and perjury and absolute evidence her lawyer maliciously lied in court, I am required by the court to pay her a massive amount of alimony until he day I die.

The names that fill newspapers these days are ISIS, Boko Haram, Al - Queda; the hashtags that circulate on social media now — and I will say their names — are of Sandra Bland, who died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody in Texas; Aylan Kurdi a young Syrian boy who, along with his family, washed up on the shore of a beach in Turkey; Madau Gach Dut, one of the thousands who have died in the conflict in South Sudan.

The family of a 62 - year - old man who died last year in Nassau County jail custody has filed a $ 60 million federal lawsuit against the county and the facility's former medical provider, claiming the inmate died because he was denied proper care.

The one - time power broker died in June while in custody at the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts.

The crowd was read a the names of the 19 people who have died while under custody in British immigration detention centres in the last 25 years.

Desmond Nunugwo, a suspect in Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC custody, died today June 10, 2016 few hours after he was arrested.

Adam Ingram, who was in power in September 2003 when the Iraqi hotel receptionist died in British custody, told the inquiry that he believed it was «correct» that information in a parliamentary answer was not accurate.

The families of several minorities who died in police custody recently met with Mr. Cuomo to push him to back the Schneiderman measure.

Carey said 15,000 people have died in state custody since 2013, and there has been only one arrest in that time.

NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman confirmed Monday he will launch a full - scale investigation into the death Raynette Turner, an African American mother of eight, who died last week while in the custody of the Mount Vernon Police Department.

While an independent watchdog disclosed that 640 people had died from police brutality or in police custody in South Africa.

Basra hotel receptionist Mr Mousa died while in the custody of British soldiers on September 14th 2003.

The Ministry of Defence has announced an inquiry into the death of Iraqi hotel receptionist Baha Mousa, who died in British custody in September 2003.

According to a survey by the Guardian, 664 people have died in police custody in the US this year, of which 174 have been black.

The public inquiry into the death of Iraqi hotel receptionist who died in British custody begins today.

The call comes as violent protests continue to roil Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody.

Around the same time, 14 - year - old Adam Rickwood became the youngest person to die in UK custody when he hung himself after being restrained by four adult carers at Hassockfield secure training centre.

The family of a 62 - year - old man who died last year in Nassau County jail custody has filed a $ 60 million federal lawsuit against the county and the facility's former medical provider that claims the inmate died because he was denied proper care, court papers say.

The recent death of Raynette Turner, who also died in police custody, Monday in Mount Vernon, will be the first real test for Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, since Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed the executive order.

Last year, a handful of protestors attempted to disrupt the Mayor's address, calling out him and the city's police department in memory of 20 - year - old Wardel Davis, who died in police custody.

His latest statements allude to dangerous loopholes that would authorize a special prosecutor for only one year and would fail to cover all cases where civilians are killed by the police or die in police custody.

Garner, a black Staten Island man, died in police custody last July after he was placed in a chokehold, a prohibited maneuver.

And Monifa Bandele, spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform, expressed concerns about the fact that Danner is the seventh New Yorker considered emotionally disturbed to die in the NYPD's hands either due to use of force or in police custody during the current administration.

A hospitalized inmate in the Nassau County jail died on Tuesday night, marking the facility's fifth custody fatality this year.

The estate of a 20 - year - old Roosevelt man who died last summer in the Nassau jail's custody has filed a federal lawsuit against the county and the facility's former and current medical providers, following a state probe that found a jail doctor failed to detect he had cancer.

The mother of a man who died in NYPD custody while high on angel dust has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with NYC for $ 1.25 million.

Mount Vernon — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced today that he's using his new power as a special prosecutor to investigate the death of a woman who died in police custody last week.