Sentences with phrase «imprisonment in»

Reconciliation Australia today joins with coalition partners in calling on government to develop justice targets to reduce the high rates of imprisonment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander -LSB-...]

Legislation regarding mandatory imprisonment in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, which leads in many cases to imposition of punishments that are disproportionate to the seriousness of the crimes committed and would seem to be inconsistent with the strategies adopted by the State party to reduce the over-representation of indigenous persons in the criminal justice system, raises serious issues of compliance with various articles of the Covenant.

In 2014 - 2015, the Queensland government wasted $ 89.2 million on imprisoning children, the second highest expenditure on youth imprisonment in Australia.

Creative Spirits identifies many of the reasons for such high rates of imprisonment in Western Australia as unpaid fines, inability to make it to court or not receiving the court mail, unlicensed driving, disorderly conduct and provocation by police.

Book Review — Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps.

Victoria now has the fastest rate of increase in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment in Australia, doubling in number to 1,435 prisoners over the ten years to 2014, an increase of 114 per cent and just ahead of the Northern Territory on 104 per cent.

The rate of imprisonment in the U.S. has risen drastically over the past few decades.

In Dragon Quest III, the flute not only can be used to put enemies to sleep, but also is key to freeing Rubiss from her imprisonment in the Tower West of Kol.

Misdemeanors generally carry penalties in a county jail (no state penitentiaries), and felonies are punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary.

The torture began almost immediately and continued frequently during the first weeks of his imprisonment in Syria; a constant backdrop to interrogations set on getting him to confess to being a terrorist.

The phrase «of chaste life» appears in a bill passed on June 25, 1886: Whoever induces any person under the age of eighteen years of chaste life and conversation to have unlawful sexual intercourse shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, common jail, or house of correction not exceeding three years or by fine not exceeding one thousand...

Al Jedda v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWHC 397 (QB) Claim for damages for false imprisonment in Iraq; private international law; interpretation of Iraqi Constitution; act of state doctrine.

Any term of imprisonment in this case would be counter effective by depriving society of the contributions of the Defendant who, the Court has found, understands the consequences of his criminal conduct and is doing everything in his power to forge a new life.

After having served part of his sentence of imprisonment in Denmark he was handed over to the Bulgarian authorities to serve the remainder of his sentence in Bulgaria.

Penalties for drug crimes may result in hefty fines, imprisonment in a county jail or state prison, the loss of a driver's license, and a ruined reputation.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment in federal prison, and a potential lifetime of supervision.

In all cases of criminal contempt arising under the provisions of this act, the accused, upon conviction, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment or both; Provided however, that in case the accused is a natural person the fine to be paid shall not exceed the sum of $ 1,000, nor shall impriSonment exceed the term of six months; Provided further, That in any such proceeding for criminal contempt, at the discretion of the judge, the accused may be tried with or without a jury; Provided further, however, That in the event such proceeding for criminal contempt be tried before a judge without a jury and the sentence of the court on conviction is a fine in excess of the sum of $ 300 or imprisonment in excess of forty five days, the accused in said proceeding upon demand therefor, shall be entitled to a trial de novo before a jury, which shall conform as near as may be to the practice in other criminal cases.

Criminal contempt can also be prosecuted as a misdemeanor criminal case, punishable by imprisonment in jail for up to six months and a fine of up to $ 1,000.

If the act that constitutes the violation of the order is itself a felony, the adverse party will be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than one year and a maximum term of not more than twenty years, in addition to whatever prison term is prescribed for the crime.

As well, there needs to be a serious and very realistic threat of imprisonment in order to deter executives from price fixing.

The five had appealed a unanimous ruling by the Court in April that their potential imprisonment in a US «supermax» prison would amount to «inhuman and degrading treatment» under Art 3 of the European Convention, in Babar Ahmad & Ors v UK (App Nos 24027 / 07, 11949 / 08, 36742 / 08, 66911 / 09 and 67354 / 09).

(3) Do the criminalisation of homosexual activities and the threat of imprisonment in relation thereto, as set out in the Offences against the Person Act 1861 of Sierra Leone (Case C - 199 / 12), the Penal Code Act 1950 of Uganda (Case C - 200 / 12) or the Senegalese Penal Code (Case C - 201 / 12) constitute an act of persecution within the meaning of Article 9 (1)(a), read in conjunction with Article 9 (2)(c) of the Directive?

If you fail to comply with the requirements outlined above, you are subject to imprisonment in county jail not exceeding six months and / or a fine of up to $ 1000 plus a penalty assessment.

If injury is involved, but not death or permanent injury, the hit and run offender is subject to imprisonment in state prison or county jail for up to one year, and / or a fine of between $ 1,000 and $ 10,000 plus a penalty assessment.

S.C. Code § 63-3-620 enumerates these sanctions as, «a fine, a public work sentence, or by imprisonment in a local correctional facility, or any combination of them, in the discretion of the court, but not to exceed imprisonment in a local correctional facility for one year, a fine of fifteen hundred dollars, or public work sentence of more than three hundred hours, or any combination of them.»

The applicant, Kirk Dickson, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994 with a tariff of 15 years.

If the act that constitutes the violation of a protection order is itself a felony, the adverse party can be punished by imprisonment in the state prison «for a term equal to and in addition to the term of imprisonment prescribed by statute» for the act that constitutes the violation.

We call on the authorities to bring the perpetrators of this senseless violence to justice, and ask the international community, which rallied to Isidro's defense during his imprisonment in 2003, to come together once again to honor and protect his legacy.»

[2] In 1988, Kendell Geers was one of 143 young men who publicly refused to serve in the South African Defence Force and faced either a life in exile or six years» imprisonment in a civilian jail.

The conversation revolved around the artist's imprisonment in 2014, her battles with trauma and the gambles she's taken as an artist in Cuba.

Drawing on his experiences of imprisonment in a succession of concentration camps, Lurie's riotous collages and paintings accuse society of shirking responsibility for its crimes against humanity, dovetailing evidence of Nazi atrocities with advertising imagery and everyday banalities.

This retrospective will free Woodman's work from its habitual imprisonment in agenda - driven discourse by exposing it to a broader viewership, posing new interpretive possibilities.

A day of programs addressing mass incarceration and displacement, including workshops, a teach - in on the Reconstruction Era, and a public dialogue on the present state of reentry and imprisonment in Philadelphia.

It has been a while since I've openly wept in a gallery, but Ai Weiwei's first exhibition following his political imprisonment in China, heart - wrenchingly examines the displacement of the refugees, specifically in the Idomeni camp along the Greek / Macedonian border.

A first person dungeon RPG, players control a group of prisoners as they try to escape imprisonment in the dreaded titular mountain by navigating through forgotten caverns and passageways.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the governing body of any county or municipality is authorized to enact ordinances prohibiting or regulating noise from any domesticated animal, violation of which shall be punishable upon conviction by a fine not to exceed $ 500 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each violation of such ordinance.

Their imprisonment in cramped cages also causes the urine and feces buildup to severely mat the dogs» fur.

Section 506 further states that «every person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of an offense and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not exceeding ninety (90) days or by a fine of not more than $ 750.00.»

She needs to enlist Serazina, a young human woman who hides her ability to read emotions in order to avoid imprisonment in the Ward for the Chronically Crazy.

Tree is stationed on the Philippines and endures the Bataan Death March, imprisonment in a POW camp, and more.

She meets Sir Gideon Trevithick, who recently survived a long imprisonment in India, and the vulnerable woman calls to all his protective instincts.

The Blackthorn and Grim trilogy follows its title characters — a wise woman and her selectively mute partner — from their wrongful imprisonment in a filthy, forgotten hole to their accidental careers as private investigators who specialize in magical mysteries.

She meets Sir Gideon Trevithick, who recently survived a long imprisonment in India, and...

A moving account of the award - winning illustrator's childhood in Nazi - occupied Poland, her imprisonment in a series of concentration camps, and her life after the war as a displaced person in Sweden.

In South Africa, there are constant assassinations, attempted assassinations, intimidations and threats carried out by Rwandan espionage through the Rwandan embassy, based in Pretoria.6 These issues have become a source of imprisonment in fear, predicament, and deprivation, especially for Rwandan refugees who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, to whom cessation clause currently applies.

Although the scandal of mass imprisonment of blacks has begun to receive wide attention, Murray strikingly notes a fivefold increase in Fishtown prisoners, by definition all white, with no increase from the infinitesimal level of imprisonment in Belmont.

The fact of it is the function of it — the delight of it being that the series functions as a tonal sequel to Antonioni's Blowup, using the disappearance of that film's photog protag as the launching point for its hero's imprisonment in his Welsh oubliette.

The first character I picked, Judy, is a ten - year old witch trying to save her grandfather from imprisonment in a magic mirror.

At the time, Dave (Jake Cherry) is an awkward 10 - year - old whose clumsiness results in a decade long imprisonment in a clay urn for Merlin's wandering apprentice.