Sentences with phrase «jail people»

Some societies jail people for lying, but here liars and thieves have gained the upper hand.

According to the group, it was surprising that Ghana had embraced the move to fine or jail persons who default in the payment of...

Supporters of the NDC who believe the sentencing is harsh have mounted pressure on President John Mahama to use his executive powers as enshrined in Article 72 of the constitution to grant the three jailed persons pardon.

Not jail people «don't think about jail is a place that you could end up.

His lengthy question included an exhortation to see an increase in jailing people engaged in the «scourge» of drug use, whether Malliotakis favors mayoral control of schools and who she would hire to run the school system.

A punishment given out as part of a sentence which means that instead of jailing a person convicted of a crime, a judge will order that the person reports to a probation officer regularly and according to a set schedule

Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia Director John Dalhuisen said: «Even if Sokolovsky's behaviour may have been regarded as disrespectful by some, states should not be jailing people simply for offending religious sensibilities.»

It is not by publicly jailing people.

Now terrorism is occupying headlines, she wants to dump it so she can arbitrarily jail people she suspects without sufficient evidence to present it before a court.

Sagay added that contrary to Saraki's statement that the anti-corruption war was all about jailing people, «What we are determined to do at any cost is to recover every stolen kobo, all the loot taken from Nigeria, 100 per cent».

«Spitzer jailed people for prostitution and financial crimes.

Managed a busy Control Room which involved controlling the electronic opening and closing of over 200 doors and maintaining a count of the jail population, including every person that entered and exited the jail

• They want the courts to have the power to jail people who break the Data Protection Act.

The NDC has described the sentencing as harsh with party supporters mounting pressure on leaders of the party and President John Mahama to use his executive powers as enshrined in Article 72 of the constitution to grant the three jailed persons pardon.

You jail people at a rate greater than any other western nation but it doesn't help.

And as I said, how many times have we not heard Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo standing on a platform and saying «wei nom yebe jail won, yebe jail won (we will jail these people, we will jail them)», how many times have you not heard him?

For example, it has jailed people for denying the holocaust, and it protested against Iran holding a holocaust denying conference.

When Buhari was Head of state, he jailed some people for 550 years, 300 years, how did that in any way curb the corruption.

But if a political party came forward and wanted to end such a disparity, jail people, they would want to «apply» in a better way anyways - what you consider is taken for granted.

«But we want to ask if the new trial judge, Binta Nyako, will jail people who did not commit any crime against the people?

They could be driven to crime by poverty or stress resulting from the jailed person's absence, or become inured to violence through more frequent exposure to criminals.

After talk of creating a new animal control department, a proposal to jail people who harbor stray animals and months of complaints from citizens, the city of Kissimmee has officially thrown up its hands.

Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive, and so on.»

So it was more than Mean Joe who were ruining careers and jailing people.

As Judge Wayne Morris Creech (a family court judge in the circuit in which I practice) once explained to an opposing party before sentencing her to jail for criminal contempt after she denied my client his court - ordered Christmas visitation for the second consecutive year in which he was entitled to it, there are «jail people» and «not jail people.»

Many of the people jailed simply did not have the money to pay, despite the fact that it's unconstitutional to jail a person for failure to pay fines that they are unable to pay.

As Canada heads toward a new era of legal marijuana use, federal prosecutors are still trying to jail people who grow small amounts of cannabis in their home to sell to others, sending a tough - on - drugs message that some say is at odds with the new approach.