Sentences with phrase «incarceration for»

The report expresses alarm at the rates of incarceration for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the «punitive» treatment of children in detention.
Shorter sentences also appear to be linked to high rates of incarceration for public order offences.
This is a criminal case where the alienator mother was sentenced to 16 months incarceration for abducting her children.
The unfortunate history here also reflects the plaintiff's hiring and firing of three different counsel, expressed disdain towards the children's attorney, and utter disregard for the authority of the Court... [A] fter careful consideration of the circumstances of the nature and extent of the multiple instances of violation of the court order, the plaintiff is sentenced to a period of incarceration for six weekends, to be served on the first and third weekends of each month for the months of June, July and August, 2010.
Comparison of two community alternatives to incarceration for chronic juvenile offenders.
The behaviors involved in Pyromania can lead to incarceration for arson, damage to property, or manslaughter.
Failure to carry car insurance that meets or exceeds Kentucky's minimum coverage requirements can result in fines of up to $ 1,000, incarceration for up to 90 days, suspension of your license for up to one year, and placement in the «high risk» category of drivers, all of which can significantly increase your car insurance coverage rates.
Failure to carry insurance that meets these state - mandated requirements can result in a fine ranging from $ 500 to $ 5,000, depending on your number of previous offenses; the suspension of your driver's license and vehicle registration, for which you will need to provide proof of insurance and pay a $ 500 reinstatement fee to remove the suspension; and potential incarceration for up to one year.
These defaults should mandate sentences of alternatives to incarceration for lower - level crimes.
A Cambria County judge ran afoul of the Constitution by conducting the mass trial and incarceration for 54 people held in contempt of court, a state appellate court concluded.
Pham was indeed sentenced to a term of two years incarceration for his participation in drug offences for which he already had a criminal record.
A significant sanction against 1664092 in the form of a fine and a term of incarceration for Mr. Grit would seem the only way to enforce compliance with the orders breached, and to send a message to the general public that open defiance of court orders shall not be tolerated.
The Calgary Drug Treatment Court has been in operation since 2007, providing the only community alternative to incarceration for non-violent drug - addicted offenders whose crimes are driven by drug addiction.
These 10 have collectively lost more than 60 years to incarceration for crimes they did not commit.
28 CFR part 505 allows for assessment and collection of a fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates.
Recognizing the need for an alternative to prosecution and incarceration for first time drug offenders, the Fifth Circuit has implemented several Drug Court Programs.
Under § 505.2, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons determined that, based upon fiscal year 2011 data, the fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates in Fiscal Year 2011 was $ 28,893.40.
Increased periods of incarceration for all repeat offenders were overbroad in that they captured «offenders who do not pose a threat to public safety or security,» and do «not specify or even broadly identify the offences that warrant an endorsement.»
Incarceration for those convicted of certain sex offenses does not automatically end at the expiration of the prison sentence.
Alternative sentencing options for a Class 4 Felony include probation, conditional discharge, periodic imprisonment for up to 18 months, boot camp / impact incarceration for defendants between the ages of 18 and 35, and fines.
As mentioned, Bill 177 did not add longer periods of incarceration for individuals who violate the OHSA.
Once the case reached the country's highest tribunal, the Supreme Court explained that the intent of the Criminal Code provision, introduced in Parliament in 1994, is to alleviate the higher rate of incarceration for Indigenous offenders and to implement restorative justice — an approach that views crime as harm done to people and that seeks to rehabilitate offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community.
Although its analysis, like that in Gideon and other earlier cases, suggested that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel should apply to all state criminal prosecutions, Argersinger held only that an indigent defendant is entitled to appointed counsel, even in petty offenses punishable by six months of incarceration or less, if he is likely to be sentenced to incarceration for any time if convicted.
When sentencing an Aboriginal offender, courts must consider: (1) The unique systemic or background factors which may have played a part in bringing the particular aboriginal offender before the courts.To do this courts are to take judicial notice of such matters as the history of colonialism, displacement, and residential schools and how that history continues to translate into lower educational attainment, lower incomes, higher unemployment, higher rates of substance abuse and suicide, and higher levels of incarceration for Aboriginal peoples.
The law as drafted forced taxpayers to finance 3 years of incarceration for people who literally pose no threat to anyone: the section would have applied to law - abiding gun owners who happen to step briefly outside the terms of their license in the same way it would to a maniac taking a loaded gun to a daycare center.
Threatened with incarceration for presumed crimes no - one has convicted her of, Hillary Clinton must be among those feeling the shock.
In 2015, she wrote about the photography of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake and the Japanese American incarceration for Hyperallergic.
If his brief 1941 incarceration for anti-Fascist ties has burnished his political reputation in retrospect, it's worth remembering that the artist's earthy, domestically tuned paintings chimed with the aesthetic line pushed by the Fascists.
You are not eligible to receive a Federal Pell Grant if you are incarcerated in a federal or state penal institution or are subject to an involuntary civil commitment upon completion of a period of incarceration for a forcible or nonforcible sexual offense.
If you have been convicted of a forcible or nonforcible sexual offense, and you are subject to an involuntary civil commitment upon completion of a period of incarceration for that offense, you can not receive a Federal Pell Grant.
done well, efforts to reduce suspensions should also improve graduation rates, achievement scores, and life outcomes, while also decreasing the rate of incarceration for juveniles and adults.
Further, she said, «attending the Promise Academy increased on - time high school graduation and college enrollment and decreased teen pregnancy for young women and incarceration for young men.»
The clinic is part of a special drug court in St. Louis that provides an alternative to incarceration for veterans.
He said she has «always» supported alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders and started a successful community - based diversion program in 2008.
Additionally, Governor Paterson today announced that he has granted clemency to June Benson, who demonstrated extraordinary rehabilitation during her 20 years of incarceration for a crime committed when she was addicted to drugs.
Westchester County prosecutors will stop requesting bail for most misdemeanor cases in order to end unnecessary incarceration for those that are financially poor.
New York had previously agreed to bar the use of single unit housing incarceration for certain categories of inmates, including juveniles as well as the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled and pregnant woman.
Democrats have been trying to make these changes — which include giving judges more authority in sentencing by repealing the minimums, and developing treatment programs to replace incarceration for new offenders — for years now, but have been stopped in the past by Republicans controlling the State Senate.
In the op - ed for USA Today, Moore pushed for fixing mandatory minimum sentences, focusing on treatment instead of incarceration for drug offenders and those suffering from mental illnesses, and better awareness of why people are jailed.
Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.
The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
For the next several minutes he shared his life's story of abuse, foster homes, repeated incarcerations for drunkenness, theft and larceny.

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Carrying myself the way I did, resulted in an overall respect for my character during my incarceration.
Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.
If convicted, black offenders are more likely to be sentenced to incarceration than white offenders and receive longer sentences for the same offenses.
The other classical rationale for punishment — a rationale usually reserved for explaining the value of incarceration — is an interest in removing offenders from settings in which they would be able to repeat their crimes.
«We don't do much for people coming out of incarceration,» Kozlowski told Fortune.
«The tools they gain and the opportunities they earn permanently break the cycles of drug - use, incarceration, and poverty for them and their families, for life,» O'Donnell said in a statement to Business Insider, pointing us to some research outlined on The Doe Fund's website:
The state, which has the highest incarceration rate in the country, is feeling the pressure of a massive criminal justice budget, and is already slashing funds for public defenders.
In his 1994 study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.
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