Sentences with phrase «incarcerated as»

I have specialized in counseling individuals who have been incarcerated as well as individuals and families navigating a life - changing illness (e.g., dementia, cancer, HIV / AIDS).

Ashley Smith was first incarcerated as a «youth» at age fifteen in 2003.

I had a crim law professor who would most certainly endorse «Jail» as his favorite program, in light of his firmly held opinion that every law student should be incarcerated as a character - building exercise.

That includes men who are incarcerated as well those who can't find jobs.

The budget's details have not yet been released but lawmakers say it will include increased college tuition assistance and a higher age of criminal responsibility so 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders aren't prosecuted and incarcerated as adults.

New York and North Carolina are the only remaining states allowing for children younger than 18 to be charged and incarcerated as adults.

Our young people are currently incarcerated as adults and treated as adults instead of being treated as young people who have made a mistake.

It would increase the age of adult criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, ensuring that young offenders aren't automatically prosecuted and incarcerated as adults.

Original Story: New York is one of two states that allow 16 - and 17 - year - olds to be prosecuted and incarcerated as adults, but a campaign is underway to raise the age of criminal responsibility here to 18.

Another provision, a priority for Democrats, would raise the age of criminal responsibility so 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders aren't automatically prosecuted or incarcerated as adults.

Williams was quickly stripped of her shoes and much of her clothes as she was incarcerated as the ill - fated Mary Stuart.

The rules, which came into force last November, «shows a system that has discarded an important principle by which I lived for 26 years, that prisoners are incarcerated as punishment but not for punishment», he added.

African - Americans and Latinos continue to be disproportionately criminalized and incarcerated as they have throughout U.S. history, as described in Michelle Alexander's powerful book «The New Jim Crow.»

Sharon Dolovich argues that, while every polity that incarcerates as punishment must remove and restrain those who are sentenced to prison, the American system, exemplified by the supermax prison, is driven by «exclusion and control» rather than the more familiar or official purposes of punishment.

Not exact matches

He also served as the deputy governor of Illinois, working for the now - incarcerated former governor Rod Blagojevich.

As required by the nonprofit's by - laws, more than half of the Fortune Society's staff and at least a third of its board share with Kozlowski the experience of having been incarcerated, providing role models to those they serve.

Combined those companies have as much cash as several incarcerated Saudi princes.

Additionally, a whole host of conditions of supervised release, such as drug testing, checking in with probation or parole officers, and required classes often hinder formerly incarcerated individuals from holding down jobs.

Even if we're only talking «evil» on a less horrific level — incarcerated criminals — we find the number of atheists and agnostics well below their demographic percentage of the population as a whole.

Similarly, on a wall accessible only to prison staff, photos of Solzhenitsyn, St. Paul, Day, and others serve as reminders to the staff that, occasionally, some people are wrongfully incarcerated.

«But as much as I fear that, I even more fear them being incarcerated for it.

In addition, so far as the public is concerned, imprisonment offers potential victims short - term security at best, Ninety - five per cent of those incarcerated are released after serving an average sentence of from 24 to 32 months.

As Christians, it is not for us to judge the incarcerated or their families.

As Taylor documents, over 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S., which works out to a per capita rate up to ten times higher than most other countries on the planet, including China and Russia.

LOL Re: «magnificent new channel» from creationtard Eric Hovind — son of convicted tax dodger Kent Hovind whose occupation is listed by Wikipedia as «Evangelist, Christian theme park operator» and whose residence is listed as «incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution at Berlin, New Hampshire by the Federal Bureau of Prisons».

I wondered if the incarcerated men would see themselves as the damned souls Dante encounters.

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

Grief isn't unique to people experiencing the death of a loved one — it also comes from divorce, often considered the most stressful situation after death; the end of a relationship, romantic or not; an illness or disability; disenfranchisement or abandonment by a loved one, such as a parent; the loss of a job; abuse; growing up with an incarcerated, mentally ill or addicted parent or loved one.

The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.

She has given presentations about breastfeeding and led support groups in various settings, including a half way house for incarcerated mothers, a crisis pregnancy center, a school for Montessori teachers, and at her church as part of the class attended by expecting and new parents in preparation for the baptism of their baby.

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Breastfeeding assistance has been provided to families of all types and sizes, in a wide variety of life situations such as adoptive parents, surrogate parents, LBGTQ parents, single parents, long - term nursing, multiples, incarcerated mothers, prematurity, chronically ill mothers and infants, and many other challenges.

The applicants — Adwoa Adowaa, Abusuapanin Ohene Tufour and Abena Mensah want the court to incarcerate COP Boakye for demolishing and destroying properties on a parcel of land at Santase roundabout which was a subject of litigation before the court as far back as 2004.

It stated that the duty of care and protection only exist as to certain individuals, such as incarcerated prisoners, involuntarily committed mental patients and others restrained against their will and therefore unable to protect themselves.

KADUNA — Members of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria has called for the unconditional release of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqoub Zakzaky, his sister - in - law, and other members incarcerated since last month as well as release of corpses of those killed for proper and befitting Islamic burial.

As crime rates continue to drop, reducing the rate of formerly incarcerated people returning to jail will help the city move closer toward shutting Rikers down.

This agreement, approved today by the Westchester County Board of Acquisition and Contract, implements a resolution of the Government's findings regarding the Jail's use of force against inmates, its use of isolation as a method of discipline for minors incarcerated at the jail, and its provision of inadequate medical and mental health care to inmates.

There are significant child protection problems with the plan, with children as young as 12 years old and the small number of girls who go to prison to be incarcerated with a vast number of older boys.

If we vote yes, and we proceed, Dutchess County will demolish that building of yesteryear and build in its place something that treats individuals with as great a degree of humanity and compassion as possible in the hopes of not incarcerating but, in fact, helping them, the individual within our care, to break the cycle of crime, address issues of mental illness and addiction,» says Molinaro.

Her letter ended: «The Christmas period can be a particularly difficult time for both incarcerated people and those working in places of detention, so I hope you will grant my request for a visit as a matter of urgency.»

With the absence of any candidate of color in the AG's race, Schneiderman has been trying to position himself as the clear choice for Latino and black voters, stressing in particular his efforts on behalf of Rockefeller Drug Law reform and sponsorship of a controversial measure that will count prisoners at their last address for the purposes of legislative redistricting and not whever they're incarcerated.

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

Because the average stay in an open prison is about six months, in practice few prisoners would actually vote while incarcerated; it must be remembered that as soon as they are released, offenders are immediately entitled to vote.

«They may not have anything against Ghana as a nation, but they certainly do have something against America, especially so because America has confessed that it has no evidence for which it incarcerated them for 14 years.

We must accept as a society that they need to be incarcerated forever.

«In an effort to avoid speculation by the jury as to why Mr. Howe is now incarcerated, we respectfully request that before cross examination resumes, the court instruct the jury that Mr. Howe was remanded as a result of his bail being revoked,» Berman wrote in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni.

Democrats want the budget to include language ending the state's practice of prosecuting and incarcerating 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.

Lawmakers also passed a controversial measure requiring that prisoners be counted as residents not of the mostly upstate prisons where they reside, but of the areas where they lived before they were incarcerated.

He cited a recent Newsday report, which showed that racial and ethnic minorities on Long Island were far more likely than whites to be arrested and incarcerated, as reason to consider an «outside perspective, who will bring about the change that needs to happen.»

George McDonald, founder of the Doe Fund which provides work, housing and social services to the formerly homeless and formerly incarcerated, ran for mayor as a Republican in 2013.