Sentences with phrase «in home detention»

They also suggested an alternate sentence of 18 months — with half to be served in prison and the remainder in home detention, «which would effectuate the same purposes in a different manner.»

Not exact matches

The widow of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo said that after eight years of house arrest she is ready to «die at home» in protest of her continuing detention by Chinese authorities, a report said Wednesday.

In Jarrod's home country, immigration and asylum has long been a source of political debate, and the pastor has made a name for himself by opposing the draconian detention policies of the Australian government.

Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

Malcolm's delinquent behavior eventually landed him in a detention home in Mason, Michigan, where be was allowed to attend junior high.

This year he, too, will spend Christmas away from home, sampling Dutch cuisine in the detention cells of the International Criminal Tribunal for the

The diplomats — officials in charge of New York consulates separate from United Nations missions — say they are hard pressed to explain to their governments and the news media back home why scores of people remain in detention, usually on minor immigration charges, at a time when the United States seeks the support of public opinion abroad for its war on terrorism.

We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.

Activists will gather outside the Home Office tomorrow, as they respond to reports that authorities violently broke up a protest in a detention centre this weekend.

The serial rebel said he would support former shadow home secretary David Davis» resignation in protest at the government's planned 42 - day detention for terrorism suspects.

The two, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef, and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al - Dhuby who were in detention for 14 years after being linked with terrorist group Al - Qaeda, were brought to Ghana in 2016, to be reintegrated back into their home countries.

While torture in detention seemed to have been rampant, what Indians feared most were the raids on suspects» homes, which exposed their families to «beatings or worse».

In September 2009, Home Office Director of Criminality and Detention at the UK Border Agency and former Assistant Commissioner at the Met, Dave Wood, was called before the Home Affairs Committee.

«It cuts both ways,» she said before sentencing Rizzi to 15 months in prison, three years supervised release and four months of home detention.

We call on the Home Office to work with ourselves and other concerned organisations to fulfil Parliament's demand for strong measures to reduce detention of torture survivors and other vulnerable people in line with the Shaw Review which Theresa May ordered as Home Secretary.

An eight - month investigation by parliamentarians warned of a total breakdown of safeguards in the system, with rape victims and people with mental health problems being locked up indefinitely in detention centres despite Home Office assurances.

2016's Shaw Review of detention conditions, commissioned by Theresa May when she was home secretary and to which we submitted detailed evidence, echoed many of our concerns and called for a dramatic reduction in the use of detention.

Taken from their homes in the middle of the night, or in the very early hours of the morning, when immigration enforcement knows they'll be at home, and bundled into a van, then to a detention centre, and then on a plane to a country they never knew.

It sent multiple vans full of immigration officers to people's homes in dawn raids, before separating the husbands from the wives and sending them to detention centres.

«Immigration detention is a vital tool in helping ensure those with no right to remain in the UK are returned to their home country,» she said.

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In an unusual change from the standard Home Office insistence that they do not comment on individual cases, the department put out a statement about the scholar's detention.

In the top spot this week was a shocking story about an American academic who was arrested and thrown into a detention centre after the Home Office failed to inform him that his application for leave to remain had been rejected.

The Home Office must be able to show that detention is being used as a last resort to facilitate someone's removal from the UK, although in the mass detention system which has gradually evolved that requirement is becoming more of a technicality.

Welcoming the report, home secretary Jacqui Smith said: «I welcome the committee's view that the current pre-charge detention limit may prove inadequate in future and its recognition of the need to develop proposals to extend it beyond 28 days.

So we should welcome the Home Office's announcement of a review into how vulnerable people are treated in Britain's detention centres.

In fact, Home Office minister James Brokenshire assured the Commons last month that they'd «recently created more management information» about detention to «provide reassurance and greater clarity».

Writing in the Guardian the day after the home affairs select committee tore into Jacqui Smith's plans to extend the period for pre-charge detention, Jack Straw insisted Labour had a strong record on protecting civil liberties.

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His comments are revealed in an email to Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee which has been hearing evidence on the case for extending detention without charge.

Torture survivors remained in detention, despite clear evidence of their vulnerability and even though the Home Office has specific guidelines against this practice.

«We hope the Home Office will act quickly in the wake of yet another tragic death to drastically reduce the use of immigration detention, as the most recent review as well as a recent cross-party inquiry have recommended.»

The Home Office is backtracking over comments made on Monday in the House of Commons by the immigration minister Damian Green which put the government's commitment to end child detention in doubt.

The question arises as to exactly what the Home Office want to achieve by keeping Isa in detention.

In their study into the electronic tagging of adult offenders, the MPs also reveal that 562 assaults were committed by those on home detention curfews - despite the fact that sexual and violent offenders are prohibited from the scheme.

An emergency extension to the Home Detention Curfew scheme was ordered by the Home Office in 2003, permitting prisoners to leave early with an electronic tag attached to monitor their movements.

Home secretary confirmed the long - awaited review had already begun, and said it would look at six areas: the use of control orders, stop and search powers in section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and the use of terrorism legislation in relation to photography, the detention of terrorist suspects before charge, extending the use of deportations, measures to deal with organisations that promote hatred or violence, and the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa) by local authorities.

Peter Clarke said he was concerned to find during an official inspection of the privately run detention centre in Bedfordshire that in two cases, the Home Office had refused, without explanation, to accept that rape came within the legal definition of torture.

In addition, offenders serving sentences of between three months and four years, with certain exceptions for violent and sexual offenders, may also be eligible for release on a home detention curfew (HDC).

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy today said the Government was «moving in the right direction» on its home detention plans following his talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The Home Office is to investigate claims of racism in a asylum detention centre after an undercover BBC documentary.

Grant Shapps, the MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, claims this rise is the result of inappropriate prisoners being released early under the Home Detention Curfew (HDC) scheme, in response to a rising prison population.

Nick Clegg stood up for the Liberal Democrats and homed in on the same point as Mr Cameron - how would the Commons be able to scrutinise the detention when discussing it would revealed confidential security information and prejudice a future trial - if, of course, there was one.

But a later statement from the Home Office said: «The new government has been clear in its commitment to end the detention of children and this includes those held in the family wing at Yarl's Wood.

But the Home Office confirmed to Channel 4 News: «The new government has been clear in its commitment to end the detention of children.

He continued in the prominent job of shadow home secretary and waged war against Labour's plans for 42 - day detention without charge and ID cards.

Mixed reactions on Friday greeted a directive by the Indigenous People of Biafra for sons and daughters of Igbo origin around the world to sit at home in protest of the continued detention of the leader of the movement, Nnamdi Kanu, and other pro-Biafra agitators.

From October 2013 to November 2014, the two scientists were variously jailed, locked down in a halfway house, and kept in round - the - clock home detention.

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