Sentences with phrase «giving prisoners»

Prison governors and chief inspectors of prisons have supported giving prisoners the vote because they see it as a way for them to exercise responsibility.

«We could look at giving prisoners iPads to work on in their cells.

Justice Secretary Michael Gove is considering the idea of giving prisoners iPads to see if it improves the education of prisoners and makes them less likely to reoffend

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

The only thing that would be worse than giving prisoners the vote would be giving them the vote and having to pay them damages as well.

Today's ruling decided that Miller v. Alabama can be applied retroactively to minors who had already been sentenced to life in prison in 2012, now giving prisoners the chance to negotiate shorter sentences or even parole.

The idea: Offer small businesses a flexible workforce and give prisoners the chance to stockpile earnings and skills needed for life outside prison bars.

So, as a conciliatory gesture to the populace — and perhaps also as a snub to the priests, whom he obviously disliked and despised — he offered to give the Prisoner an unconditional discharge.

It has since become a well - known meme among those who oppose the HRA to suggest that human rights law gave prisoners access to hardcore porn.

The government has been warned it must give prisoners in Scotland and Wales the right to vote in May's elections or risk compensation claims for allegedly breaking human rights laws.

Ministers had thought a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights would force them to give prisoners the vote only in Westminster or European parliamentary elections.

«The Hirst judgment says that article 3 of protocol 1 of the European convention on human rights obliges this House to give some prisoners the vote; as we have heard, it also gives rise to financial compensation to some prisoners who have been denied that right.

A similar effort is underway in New Jersey where lawmakers are working to give prisoners, people on probation and individuals on parole the right to vote.

After the grand council upheld that ruling Dominic Grieve, who was then shadow attorney general, said it would be «ludicrous» to give prisoners the right to vote.

Other welcome aspects include the plans to extend the vote to 16 and 17 year olds, give foreign nationals living in Wales the right to vote, improve voter registration and give prisoners the right to vote.

I hope Espada knows they don't give prisoners sushi in the state pen!

A former home secretary and a former shadow home secretary try to block plans to give prisoners the vote.

Former deputy PM John Prescott said the UK has no choice but to give prisoners the vote and criticised Conservatives MPs asking David Cameron to reverse the decision.

MPs are expected to register their disapproval later over moves to give prisoners the right to vote in UK elections.

Figures reveal that 1,780 criminals convicted of violent or sexual offences would be eligible to vote in England and Wales under plans to give prisoners voting rights.

She gave the prisoners data books and some basic training in measurement protocol and let them at it.

Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal should make anything an instant watch for me, but I may have to give Prisoners a pass.

This distinction (at the root of the Bayes formula) is like the so - called prosecutor fallacy conflating the two probabilities --(a) given the guilt of the prisoner what is the probability that he was near the scene of the crime (quite high) compared with (b) given the prisoner was near the scene of the crime what is the chance he was guilty (much lower).

He asserts that the ECtHR: fails to provide certainty and predictability; goes beyond the original scope of the European Convention; and has required the government to give some prisoners the vote despite MPs voting against this.

Afterwards Congress could draft a new law that gives prisoners, sentenced to death, a right to appeal to the Supreme Court.

The failure of the secretary of state to implement his policy to provide courses and training to prisoners, within a time frame that gives prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection (IPPs) a chance to demonstrate that they are safe for release by the time that they have completed their tariff period, or reasonably soon thereafter, is in breach of the rights of those prisoners.

I was told by police officers that there were not enough guards to quell the violence or to give prisoners their half - hour out in the Don Jail's quadrangle for some fresh air.

When visiting time is up, you give the prisoner a hug, then wait while they're patted down for drugs.

Not exact matches

Moreover, while prisoners were generally taken, particularly if they were in large numbers — whole companies or even battalions of soldiers giving themselves up, as sometimes happened — it was an unspoken rule that soldiers who resisted too long or too hard had given up any right to quarter.

«So your job as a presenter is to give the learners what they came for, let the vacationers know they're not on holiday and get the prisoners to at least uncross their arms,» says Mark.

Guantanamo has been criticized by human rights groups, with some of its prisoners held for a decade or longer without being charged or given a trial.

Typically, the group consists of a «tie - down team» who escort the prisoner from his cell to the death chamber and then strap him to the gurney; medically trained personnel who set the intravenous lines; and those, like Bracey and Baxley, who sit on the other side of a glass wall and press the buttons to inject the lethal drugs into the prisoner once the team leader gives the order.

This should give you an idea of how bad things are there: On top of the state pension program being utterly insolvent, Illinois can't even afford to pay lottery winners or feed prisoners.

Each prisoner is given the opportunity either to: betray the other by testifying that the other committed the crime, or to cooperate with the other by remaining silent.

The ones who were surprised that he knew them were the ones doing totally non-religious acts, like giving water to the thirsty, clothing the naked, and visiting prisoners.

My reading of the Gospels shows that status can be obtained by giving and praying in secret; power comes to the quiet servant; and god's approval is upon those that work among the wounded, poor, widows, orphans, hungry, thirsty, sick, prisoners, homeless, and unclothed.

«The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to provide for those who mourn in Zion — to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.

They gave gold and prisoners to him for him to use to run the country.

This gives you peace of mind, because if he didn't do this, then it was very likely that these enemies would come back next week, or next month, or next year and take you prisoner all over again.

The lecture was given in two halves, the first describing his personal journey following his captivity as a prisoner of war in Scotland, the second explicitly addressing the title of the talk.

Difficult to find supporting evidence for this, but given the disproportionately low percent of atheists in prison, and assuming that the distribution of criminal activity amongst those atheists is the same as that amongst religious prisoners, then it is fairly safe to assume that this statement is accurate.

Along with these Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz, we must pronounce God guilty (No, that is not the idea I will develop, but it gives a hint at the direction we are going).

«The name of the prisoner the imam said made the complaint was never given and, as a result of that, he was suspended and told he not come back into Brixton.»

Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.

The jews were given a choice of who they wanted to save because it was a high holy day when Jesus was sentenced and the tradition was to free a prisoner on that day.

The Prisoner was now to be brought to trial In the account of the proceedings given in the gospels we have, in appearance, reports of two separate trials, one before a Jewish court, the other before the Roman governor, each ending in condemnation on a capital charge — but a different charge in each.

Being a «prisoner» in Iran and yes I mean prisoner and not citizen does not give the regime there the right to murder individuals who think differently.

After all, the Prisoner had made a technically treasonable claim which he refused to deny when given the opportunity, and the law must take its course.

In the prison writings we find Bonhoeffer's insistence upon «a full life», the severe criticism of fellow prisoners who «miss the fullness of life and the wholeness of an independent existence», and a constant return to the theme of involvement in the world — these give some indication of the direction in which Bonhoeffer's thoughts move.

He and his fellow Oxford Methodists gave significant portions of their income to succor the poor and spent much time ministering to condemned prisoners (after a lifetime of lavish giving, Wesley died a relatively poor man).