Sentences with phrase «in federal penitentiaries»

During law school, Jesse participated in the Correctional Law Project, a specialized legal aid clinic that provides counsel and representation to inmates in federal penitentiaries.

This page contains CCLA's key legal materials, previous work, key decisions, and press for our constitutional challenge of the solitary confinement regime in federal penitentiaries.

The report came up with a number of recommendations to help correctional services address factors that would help mitigate the chronic over-representation of Aboriginal people in federal penitentiaries.

In this case, lawyers for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada were asking the Court to end administrative segregation in federal penitentiaries in Canada.

At the turn of the century, according to Suzanne Schlosberg, author of The Ultimate Workout Log, primitive stair machines were used for punishment in federal penitentiaries.

Vick served time in a federal penitentiary for his role in unlawful dog fighting activities that were held at his home in Virginia.

Talk to your minister, Abby counsels a 14 - year - old deeply in love with a 50 - something married man serving serious time in a federal penitentiary....

Will Ferrell is about to be an inmate in a federal penitentiary and Kevin Hart is his prison survival coach in Warner Bros..

You'd have to do something really bad to get 30 years in a federal penitentiary and -LSB-...]

Section 81 of the Act allows for agreements to transfer care and custody of an Aboriginal offender who would otherwise be held in a federal penitentiary to an Aboriginal community facility.

Sentences of two years or more will be served in a Federal penitentiary.

In a recent Federal Court ruling, the Honourable Mr. Justice Hughes, himself a member of the aforementioned subcommittee, refused a request from the defendant (Her Majesty the Queen) to strike a Statement of Claim, and instead granted the plaintiffs (5 self - represented prisoners in a federal penitentiary) a 6 - month stay to, among other things, «secure competent legal counsel».

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He was duly convicted and after he had exhausted all his rights to appeal, he finally served a sentence in the Atlanta Federal penitentiary.

But because she had recently violated a section of the law that forbids lobbyists from sending people on expensive junkets (something about paying a congressman to go on an «educational» tour of Indonesia regarding taxes on palm oil), she is called up for a Senate hearing led by Senator Ron M. Sperling (John Lithgow), who is in the pocket of the gun people and seeks to send her to a federal penitentiary.

Vick remains indefinitely suspended, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has not said whether he will reinstate Vick after his July release from the federal penitentiary in Kansas where he is serving a 23 - month sentence for a dogfighting conspiracy.

San Francisco, CA — Chinese artist and rights advocate Ai Weiwei will create a new body of site - specific artwork on Alcatraz Island, the notorious former federal penitentiary in the center of San Francisco Bay, now a national park welcoming more than a million visitors annually.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2007: During its 29 years as the toughest and most feared federal penitentiary in America, Alcatraz was «home» to many of the most notorious criminals and gangsters in U.S. history.

Alcatraz, the world - famous former Federal penitentiary and International visitor destination in the center of San Francisco Bay, has just benefited from a multi-million-dollar restoration and renovation that has dramatically transformed and improved the way visitors experience the iconic national park.

Seven installations were spread throughout this federal penitentiary turned national park, and ranged from an audio experience in the former hospital ward to a carpet of Legos arranged into the faces of political prisoners.

Just in case, does anybody know if the federal penitentiary system gives inmates facilities other than basketball, weightlifting, and TV?

With the recent closure of high - profile federal penitentiaries in Kingston, Ontario and Laval, Quebec, it is questionable whether new so - called «super-jails» will be able to keep up with the influx of prisoners.

As noted in a recent case at the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the offender, a long - time drug addict, began his addiction to illicit drugs during his first term of imprisonment at a federal penitentiary.

-- On September 11th, 13th, 14th and 15th, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) will be before the court challenging the solitary confinement regime in Canadian federal penitentiaries.

In January 2015, CCLA along with the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) launched a challenge against the practice of solitary confinement of prisoners in Canada's federal penitentiaries, arguing that such practices can constitute torture, and cruel and unusual treatment, contrary to the CharteIn January 2015, CCLA along with the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) launched a challenge against the practice of solitary confinement of prisoners in Canada's federal penitentiaries, arguing that such practices can constitute torture, and cruel and unusual treatment, contrary to the Chartein Canada's federal penitentiaries, arguing that such practices can constitute torture, and cruel and unusual treatment, contrary to the Charter.

He also worked for the Correctional Law Project, providing representation to inmates of federal penitentiaries at their internal tribunals, and also with a wills and estates litigator in Kingston to help prepare for two trials.

The only locations exempt from possible designation as a «public work», would be those clearly under federal jurisdiction, pursuant to s. 91 of the Constitution Act, 1867, (U.K.), 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3, such as penitentiaries, banks, beacons, buoys, lighthouses, and «such Classes of Subjects as are expressly excepted in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.»»