Sentences with phrase «jail conditions»

The island will also likely need a new name, one that is not synonymous with violence and brutal jail conditions, the report observes, without offering any suggestions.

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York William Hochul called the stipulated order of dismissal an historic agreement that will improve jail conditions and protect prisoners rights.

Such change is an attempt to counteract overcrowded and lengthening pre-trial custody in very bad jail conditions due to very inadequate government funding of such facilities

A federal appeals court ruled that Erie County must unseal reports on jail conditions as part of its monitoring by the U.S. Department of Justice.

His 2nd Reading House of Commons speech (April 20, 2009), blamed such over-crowding on the practice of sentencing judges awarding 2 days off an imposed sentence for every one day served awaiting trial in such jail conditions.

County and Justice Department Reach Agreement on Jail Conditions During the Spano Administration

Advocate calls Nassau jail conditions their worst ever Responding to having heard of a Nassau County Correctional Center inmate's death, the Long Island Citizens for Good Government held a news conference alongside former inmates on Monday, March 7, 2016, to discuss what they consider life - threatening conditions and improper health care at the East Meadow jail.

If prisoners could vote, MPs in seats like that would quickly start harassing the Home Secretary over jail conditions.

The Truth in Sentencing Act, S.C. 2009, c. 29 (operative from Feb. 22, 2010), purported to correct the «untruthful» sentencing practice of awarding 2 days reduction in the sentence imposed for each day spent in pre-sentencing custody (PSC), which was awarded in compensation for terrible jail conditions suffered during PSC, and lost eligibility for release on parole.

But in fact, no defence counsel ever had a client who said, «I didn't do it, but, I don't want you to apply for bail for me, because I want to get that «2 for 1 credit» if sentenced for what I didn't do, regardless jail conditions, and the fact that I didn't do what the police, the Crown, and the charges laid say I did, and even though you have told me that it is much more difficult to prepare a defence if I'm in jail.»

After a week in Dickensian jail conditions, the man is presented with two options:

The tone of MacKay's response (leaving aside cheap partisan attacks) makes clear that the Conservatives have no intention taking any steps to address the deteriorating bail system, over incarceration, worsening jail conditions, and the abandonment of fundamental Charter values.

The order requires Arpaio and the county to give attorney Hill and the ACLU quarterly reports about jail conditions.

Hochul called the stipulated order of dismissal an historic agreement that will improve jail conditions and protect prisoners rights.

As a result of such jail conditions, we took turns being the «trial coordinator» — the Crown whose job it was to keep the 7 County Courts occupied with a trial every available hour.

Tagged: hunger strike, jail conditions, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Ontario Ombudsman, prison conditions

s. 710 (3), (3.1)-RRB-; (2) Ken Chasse, «Untruth In Sentencing Credit for Pre-Sentence Custody» (2010), 15 Canadian Criminal Law Review 75 - 109; and, (3) the authorities cited therein in regard to jail conditions.

There are judgments that state that those jail conditions did not meet the basic standards set by the United Nations.

The «Truth in Sentencing Act» is legislation that was intended to provide an excuse for provincial and federal governments» not making any increased expenditure of money to increase the number of provincial and federal prosecutors, or to improve jail conditions, and an excuse for governments not to have to appoint and pay for more judges to make more courts available.