Sentences with phrase «incarceration up»

There's also the JustJustice project on Indigenous incarceration up and running, which also benefitted from the support of Luke Pearson!

Beyond the employment and social consequences, a person convicted of threatening death can be subject to fines, probation and liable to a term of incarceration up to five years.

Not exact matches

In all other circumstances, abortion is criminalized — women who undergo abortions in Brazil are subject to one to three years in prison, and doctors can be punished with up to 20 years incarceration.

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.

Mr. Colson argues that «there is no relationship between incarceration rates and crime rates» and that «we have tried that [lock - «em - up] approach and it has failed.»

Mashing up images of mass incarceration and tribal dancing, Lamar's lyrical depth, social activism and masterful skills as a performer were on full display.

For example, a fairly recent U.S. longitudinal study tracking over 6,400 boys for over 20 years found that children who grew up without their biological father in the home were roughly three times more likely to commit a crime that led to incarceration than were children from intact families.

The widespread perception that incarceration was used as a means of getting business people to cough up large sums to replenish the state treasury did not enhance the popular image of the government.

According to him, their incarceration had forced the president to take up the personal attacks on Nana Addo, which he believes the jailed host and panelists of the pro-government radio station, would otherwise have done.

Now that SCOTUS has closed the books on this appeal, when does Cuomo start going door - to - door and rounding up these people for mass incarceration?

The Council's Bail Fund will provide bail of up to $ 2,000 and will save the City millions of dollars in incarceration costs and will help make the City's criminal justice system more just,» according to a Council press release.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

If convicted, Thompson could receive up to four years in prison, but there's no mandatory term of incarceration.

«Up till this moment, we have not been told officially by the DSS whether or not Hon Akanni was formally released from incarceration after spending 18 days without access to his doctors, lawyers and family members.

We've spent billions of dollars, locked up so many people we have a higher rate of incarceration than the Soviet Union did, done real harm to some of our most fundamental Constitutional protections, and for what?

Men and women in white collars started to trickle in, saying hello to their fellow activists who showed up to speak out against the youth incarceration.

The queen then sought out the larger cells and, on average, laid nearly three times as many drone eggs as usual, apparently making up for the skewed hive gender ratio that resulted from her incarceration, the researchers report in the November / December issue of Behavioural Ecology.

«I grew up in Dayton, Ohio in a home scarred by addiction and incarceration.

Whereas there is often a tendency in films of this type to stylize its violence and present the prisoners as cocky performers (a la Refn and this year's Dom Hemingway), Starred Up is a bracingly realistic portrait of incarceration.

Students watch the extract from ROOTs before and including the capture of Kunte Kinte up until his incarceration on the beach.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

Little or no data have been collected on the effect of school choice on graduation rates, incarceration rates, the probability that students will end up on welfare, the chances that they will be employed full time - all outcomes that deserve careful scrutiny.

Other items had nothing at all to do with education but, being champions of «social justice,» the activists came up with an NBI which proposes to inform the public about the dangers of fracking, another that calls for the end of «food deserts» (don't ask) and one that wants President Obama to investigate the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man who was convicted of first - degree murder in the slaying of two FBI agents in 1977.

The massive incarceration (and crime leading up to it) will continue — and our status as the world's «leader» will end — if our education system doesn't catch up to the 21st century AND hold everyone in that system accountable for teaching EVERY SINGLE CHILD that walks into a school.

Life after incarceration was going OK until Candace showed up and told Kai Paula's secret.

She not only felt guilty about her mothers incarceration as well as Julian's growing up without knowing his mother

I have a specific audience in mind — people who care deeply about racial justice but who, for any number of reasons, do not yet appreciate the magnitude faced by communities of color as a result of mass incarceration... (and) those who have been struggling to persuade their friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, co-workers, or political representatives... but who have lacked the facts and data to back up their claims.

Simon's incarceration is «due to the fact that rabies can take up to six months before a pet shows signs of the virus,» said Tim Jennings with the Forsyth County Animal Control.

If convicted, Notartomaso could face up to two years imprisonment and would be required to register with the Suffolk County Animal Abuse Registry within five days after his release from incarceration, the SPCA said.

Of these Light Sentence is a U-shaped configuration of 36 industrial wire lockers to put one in mind of a prison, while a single bulb moving up and down within the dead end casts shadows that compound the sense of incarceration and oppression.

Each blown - up pie section highlights various aspects of incarceration within the United States such as drug offenses, the juvenile justice system, and racial and ethnic disparities in prison and jails.

Silken and smooth, these stripes set up a visual rhythm, like a luxurious woven damask; they are at the same time sensory deprivation and saturation, with a menacing undertow of incarceration.

The Congolese sculpture, traditionally used to ward off evil spirits, makes you wonder who needs to be protected from the haunts — those swept up in mass incarceration or those who make and consume its watered down, pop - culture version.

Last December, the Rauschenberg Foundation called for fellowship proposals for «Creative Interventions to Mass Incarceration,» granting chosen artists up to $ 100,000.

Landscape Incarceration (HDTS Print Edition), 2015, revisits Shannon's first project with High Desert Test Sites in 2003, in which she set up a series of oversize letters to create this image in the desert.

And many of his followers took up the cry — posting «jail Hillary» signs on the sides of roads or demanding unjust incarceration of a political opponent loudly on twitter.

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.

This conviction would lead to a licence suspension of up to five years, fines of between $ 2,000 and $ 50,000, up to two years of incarceration and six demerit points.

I think we were released from the incarceration of our duty to speak up, inability to exercise discretion, and frustrated at the roadblocks set up in the system for crown counsel, judges, police, and defence counsel.

Alternative sentencing can include terms of probation of up to 4 years, conditional discharge, periodic imprisonment, impact incarceration / boot camp, and fines.

Another situation that comes up is when an affluent person who is not entitled to a public defender as a result, chooses to represent themselves, usually with respect to a fairly minor charge like a traffic violation that carries a risk for a short term of incarceration, to save money.

Class D felony: (first - degree criminal mischief, first - degree stalking, second - degree assault, third - degree sexual assault)- 1 to 5 years» incarceration / fine of up to $ 5,000

Alternative sentencing for a Class 2 Felony can include terms of probation of up to 4 years, conditional discharge, periodic imprisonment for 18 to 30 months, impact incarceration / boot camp for offenders between the ages of 18 and 35, and fines.

Crary, Clark, Domanico, & Chuang, P.S., is committed to helping you protect your rights and your future when you are up against serious legal penalties, including expensive fees, drivers» license suspension and revocation, incarceration, etc..

This month, for instance, in an unpublished decision, the Virginia Court of Appeals underlined that judges and jurors have practically boundless discretion to sentence defendants right up to the maximum incarceration allowed by statute, and quoted the Virginia Supreme Court from 2016 on the matter as follows:

The Guardian reports on the latest «thinking» from our political masters over at the Ministry of Cheap Justice:» «Flash incarceration» of offenders who breach court orders, widespread naming online of those convicted, more witnesses giving evidence via videolink and Sunday court sittings are among measures outlined in government plans to speed up justice.»

The evidential burden of showing that the crime and Gray's subsequent incarceration amounted to a break in the chain of causation was on the defendant and where the manslaughter either did not break the chain of causation or where any contributory fault on the part of the claimant was less than 100 %, the claim would not be so inextricably bound up with the criminal conduct so as to be prohibited by public policy.

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.

Many people take the huge risk of driving without insurance and end up paying gravely for it (license suspension and incarceration are just some of the consequences of driving without insurance).

First offense DUI arrest in Oklahoma initiates an impending license suspension of 30 days, a 10 day minimum to 1 year incarceration and fines of up to $ 1,300.