Sentences with phrase «face incarceration»

In addition, they could face incarceration until they are able to pay fines involved in causing an accident there.

Many will face incarceration or turn to government assistance to survive.

What if you're not a murderer or a rapist or a thief yet find yourself facing incarceration?

Also a former teacher, Hecker focused on teens, and on working in communities and with youth facing incarceration.

Education has the power to impact and change lives every day whether through the connections made as alumni, the learning that transpires between faculty and students, or the second life it can create for a foster child facing incarceration.

Whether you are facing incarceration, fines or loss of liberty, we have decades of experience trying cases in criminal courts.

«The United States has a strong interest in ensuring that all jurisdictions — federal, state, and local — fulfill their constitutional obligation to provide counsel to criminal defendants and juveniles facing incarceration who can not afford an attorney,» the motion read.»

Not exact matches

Less - educated males of recent cohorts are likely to face diminished employment and earnings opportunities and other attendant maladies, including poorer health, high probability of incarceration, and generally lower life satisfaction.»

Like other women in communities with high rates of incarceration, she faced a shortage of potential mates.

Meanwhile, Wolde, who has maintained his innocence and has faced his ordeal with a marathoner's tenacity, seemed resigned to continued incarceration.

He faced questioning by Venditto's attorney, Marc Agnifilo of Manhattan, who sought to demonstrate how desperate Mei was to avoid incarceration.

In addition to helping individuals avoid spending unnecessary time in jail, the report also shows that providing low - income individuals with the ability to post bail helps them achieve better outcomes in their cases and avoid the negative consequences that stem from pre-trial incarceration, which can range from becoming homeless and unemployed to facing deportation.

Manhattan DA Cy Vance said on Monday that additional funding would go toward the creation of an Alternative to Incarceration unit aimed at preventing low - level nonviolent offenders from facing jail time.

RIKERS: AN AMERICAN JAIL, a riveting new documentary from Bill Moyers, brings you face to face with men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island.

«I think anyone facing a life - altering judgment — whether it's incarceration, eviction, deportation, loss of custody of your children, foreclosure on a mortgage you have — anyone facing those kinds of judgements should have representation, in my opinion,» City Councilman Mark Levine told the Observer.

After 15 years in psychiatric incarceration, Michael escapes and, with murderous intent, returns to stalk the Midwestern, Illinois suburb where he first struck.After opening on the face of a carved, candlelit pumpkin and Carpenter's now iconic synthesiser score playing overhead, we are introduced to a young, murderous Michael Myers.

The report's authors contend that the high number of suspensions and the large discrepancies in the populations of students who are suspended are extremely troubling not only because of the lost learning time, but also because suspensions are a leading indicator of whether a child will drop out of school and face future incarceration.

Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, in partnership with The City of Boston and ArtsEmerson, is excited to present a Community Conversation featuring Bryan Stevenson on Wednesday, December 9 at Emerson College from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Stevenson is one of the country's most inspired thinkers and social justice advocates, and a leader in the movement to fight mass incarceration.

We've stood by as two generations of African American and Hispanic men have faced mass incarceration and the economic, social, political, and racial costs that it inflicts.

I have a specific audience in mind — people who care deeply about racial justice but who, for any number of reasons, do not yet appreciate the magnitude faced by communities of color as a result of mass incarceration... (and) those who have been struggling to persuade their friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, co-workers, or political representatives... but who have lacked the facts and data to back up their claims.

In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop — a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture — to «save» themselves and the city.

Drawing on the early 20th - century history of Texas, one can not help but notice the birth and proliferation of prison farms — the roots of the incarceration crisis we now face.

If convicted, Notartomaso could face up to two years imprisonment and would be required to register with the Suffolk County Animal Abuse Registry within five days after his release from incarceration, the SPCA said.

Politically, it gives the lie to the mainstream pretense that Australia is not really a racist society whilst providing a masterful portrayal of individual Aboriginal subjects who gaze with defiance at the viewer, resilient in the face of a litany of structural oppression that has included, but is not limited to, the stolen generations, skyrocketing rates of incarceration and continuing paternalistic policies of successive governments.

The tar also restores some privacy to the faces that was long denied them, while simultaneously alluding to the way their reputations were ruined as a result of their incarceration.

If you have been charged with possession of marijuana, you could be facing legal consequences that range from a discharge to incarceration.

You may be facing serious consequences if convicted, including incarceration, expensive fines, loss of your driver's license, and a permanent criminal record that will impact every area of your life.

The Model Penal Code: Sentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentence review.

In other cases, a driver might face criminal charges for his or her conduct behind the wheel and the nature of those charges could determine the punishment that results, including incarceration.

The volunteer represents defendants in child support contempt hearings if the defendant is facing the possibility of incarceration.

Depending on the nature of your charge, you could face significant fines, points on your license, the suspension or revocation of your driving privileges, and even incarceration.

Most drivers who are cited for operating under the influence will face charges that may result in fines, fees, loss of a driver's license, community service, or even incarceration, but what many don't realize is that the criminal charges may not be the end of their legal saga.

If a boater is under the influence and causes an accident that leaves someone injured, that boater may face a ticket, loss of a license, fines and fees, and even incarceration.

Tarra Simmons, SU Law Student and 2016 Goldmark Intern, addresses the crowd about the barriers she faced after incarceration.

The perpetrator already faces more serious charges that are highly likely to result in his incarceration and the new charges would be served concurrently and not add to his sentence, so pressing charges is not a priority.

In addition to fines, incarceration and being barred from entering the United States, you could be facing the loss of any assets or possessions deemed to be proceeds of crime.

If convicted, the man may face loss of a license, incarceration in prison, and fines, among other penalties.

If you have been charged with drug production, you face significant criminal penalties and other consequences such as fines, incarceration and the inability to enter the United States.

If you are charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, you will face significant penalties, including incarceration.

According to a video on his YouTube channel, Kokesh faces a possible maximum of 7 1/2 years incarceration.

If an accused person faces possible incarceration resulting from breaches of the Act, should criminal law disclosure obligations not apply to Commission Staff?

Without his plea Khadr potentially faced a lifetime of uncertain incarceration at Guantanamo, while an indefinite and ill - defined war on terrorism continued.

Although media and academic sources often describe mass incarceration as the primary challenge facing the American criminal justice system, the imposition of criminal justice debt may be a more pervasive problem.

In addition, as prisons continue to face overcrowding, judges are ordering drug offenders to complete rehabilitation programs as alternatives to incarceration; these decisions are naturally heightening the demand for substance abuse counselors.

The barriers confronting women post-release are often issues that they faced prior to their incarceration.

«The Turnbull Government has provided no new money to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians faced with shorter life expectancy and dramatically higher incarceration rates.

This multidimensional, broad - based framework helps promote father engagement across all levels of society and strategically tackle the diverse barriers that fathers face as they try to become better parents, partners, and providers by providing supports ranging from employment skills to low - income, noncustodial fathers, to reentry services for fathers recently released from incarceration.24 The OCF helps coordinate a variety of programs and events to promote father engagement.

Young, unmarried, and lacking in education, these men face a multitude of barriers to being the fathers they want to be, from poor employment prospects and high incarceration rates, to juggling multiple parenting roles among the children they live with and the ones with whom they do not.

Women in incarceration face disproportionate health care disparities, including inadequate access to sexual and reproductive health care and counseling.

Oxfam Australia's Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said there was no new money to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians faced with shorter life expectancy and dramatically higher incarceration rates.