Sentences with phrase «jail system for»

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Such a raid was depicted on «60 Days In,» the A&E documentary series that follows nine law - abiding citizens who went undercover at Fulton County Jail for two months to expose problems from within the system.

Pompeo also renewed calls for the release of a jailed American pastor accused by Turkey of espionage, and encouraged Turkey not to pursue the purchase of an advanced air - defense system from Russia.

A Christian MP has said the there is «serious problem in the criminal justice system» after a report found ethnic minority defendants are more likely to be jailed for some crimes than white people.

Momoya, yeah, and while we're at it, who set up the stupid system where criminals have to pay for their crimes with jail time anyway?

According to China Aid, Zhang and Liu are being held for six months in a so - called «black jail,» one of several detention facilities outside the established penal system.

If you want to punish racist fine them or put them in jail if you believe that changes their belief system and the law allows for it.

Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.

«We can now move ahead with creating a borough - based jail system that's smaller, safer and fairer,» de Blasio crowed, announcing that he has secured the support of key City Council members for the scheme.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

The Board of Correction today approved a plan for an enhanced supervision unit touted by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte — but also voted to end solitary confinement for all inmates on Rikers Island under 21 by 2016, a sweeping change that will set the department apart from jail systems nationwide.

For the last four years, the Council was led by Melissa Mark - Viverito, who used the position to push reforms to the criminal justice system and pressure the mayor to back the closing of the Rikers Island jail complex.

There should be a system for identifying people easily as they went through the criminal justice system, Mr Reid said, while there needed to be better implementation of police guidelines on how to report and deal with foreigners in British jails.

Despite the harsh laws, Indonesia's corrupt prison system is awash with drugs, and inmates and jail officials are regularly arrested for narcotics offences.

The Wa circuit court, on Friday, slapped two 25 - year jail terms on one Adams Ibrahim, aged 33, who was recently released from prison on May 1, 2017, under the remission system of the Justice For All programme.

«This set of reforms helps to move the criminal «justice» system closer to actual justice and away from an overreliance on arrests, prosecution and jail for low - level offenses,» said Tina Luongo, the attorney in charge of the criminal defense practice at the Legal Aid Society.

After City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito called for an overhaul of the city's criminal justice system in her state of the city speech Feb. 11 and announced the formation of the Lippman commission, Councilman Joe Borelli, who represents Staten Island's South Shore, wrote a letter to the speaker telling her that he doesn't want a jail in his district.

``... I think that any time you have a situation where something happens again and again and again, and it happens on the part of people who should know better, and it happens on the part of people who should be able to engage in a decent and reasonable calculus about whether or not it's worth going to jail and being separated from your liberty for a few thousand dollars, that something is broken in the system,» he continued a bit later.

«For too long, Rikers Island has been emblematic of the deep institutional flaws in our city's jail system.

Comptroller Scott Stringer, who testified in the afternoon, praised the mayor's budget proposal for including more funding for the expansion of 3 - K for All, capital funds to repair and replace NYCHA heating systems, and for closing the first jail on Rikers Island.

Mr. de Blasio said the jails could be closed in 10 years, providing the city could reduce the number of people who cycle through the city's system to 5,000; low enough, that is, for every inmate to be taken off the 400 - acre island and housed instead in jails elsewhere in the city.

There is an ongoing conversation in New York about how to fix the bail system that many agree is broken, keeping too many poor people in jail after they are arrested for low - level nonviolent offenses but can not afford to post bond and, at times, allowing individuals back onto the street who are prone to violence but able to pay bail.

In 2004, David Soares was a political upstart running for Albany County District Attorney, promising to change the system that sends so many young people of color to jail.

EAST HARLEM — City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weeks.

The allocation of millions of dollars in additional funds for McKinsey comes even as many measures of violence in the city's jails system are moving in the wrong direction.

«With an eye toward a significant reduction in the jail population, including increased use of community - based diversion programs, and policing, bail and speedy trial reform, the #CLOSErikers Campaign is advocating for a much smaller, less expensive, fairer and more humane public safety system in NYC,» Martin said.

For example, she presented a lecture about pika ecology and ecology to inmates in Utah's Salt Lake County Jail System.

Two computer hackers who broke into hundreds of systems including those run by the Ministry of Defence, NASA, and the merchant bank SG Warburg, were each jailed for six months last week.

I also totally agree with you about the criminal system, I'm sick if hearing rich people buying themselves out of trouble and poor people spending way too much time in jail for the crime they committed xox

A young father returns home from jail eager to care for his son and become a writer, but crime, poverty and a flawed system threaten his plans.

December 9, 2013 • On Monday, federal prosecutors announced indictments against 18 current and former deputies of the L.A. Sheriff's department for corruption and civil rights abuses inside the nation's largest municipal jail system.

According to Act 4 Juvenile Justice, for more than 35 years the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) has provided critical federal funding to states to comply with a set of core requirements designed to protect children from the dangers of adult jails and lockups; keep young people safe; keep children charged with status offenses out of locked custody; and address the disparate treatment of youth of color in the justice system.

When the Atlanta educators were convicted this month, the Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said they were «victims of a corrupt education system,» and she called for leniency and no jail time.

No, not for one second did I think it was a good solution and other than reducing the amount of people i the jail system, it didn't really do anything else.

The government saves money because the system isn't paying for people who've conducted misdemeanors to sit in jail, but it doesn't do anything to help those people either.

The glow of candlelight illuminated the grounds of the Charleston Animal Society on Saturday night as concerned community members showed their disdain for a system they believe allowed a doctor to avoid felony charges and jail time in the deaths of nine dogs.

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She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

Through cost - effective improvements identified for the construction of the St. Lawrence County Jail in Canton, the building and its systems reduced its energy consumption, decreased demands on the power system and increase occupant comfort.

I don't imagine that Gleick is going to jail, but he is in for a bad time with the legal system.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

«Fertility tourism» is the somewhat derisive term for cross-border travel to access artificial reproductive services that are restricted or unavailable in the traveler's home country.123 Such tourism can be a two - way street.124 Canada, for example, imposes severe penalties on anyone who provides compensation to a gestational surrogate.125 The risk of a serious fine and even jail time acts as a deterrent to Canadians who have no access to altruistic surrogates within Canada.126 The restrictions encourage Canadians to access ART services in the United States or other countries.127 On the other hand, Canada can be an attractive destination for intending parents who are not Canadian but who have access to an altruistic Canadian surrogate because the public health system greatly reduces the medical costs for the pregnancy and birth of the baby.128 India has a growing reputation for providing low - cost gestational surrogacy as it allows women to be compensated for providing such services.129 All of these scenarios present potential LRW problems addressing contract interpretation and enforceability.

The court system got things exactly right in Mr. Lawrence's case; there was nothing so unusual about it as to disengage the sentencing guidelines and counsel no jail time at all for him.

The judges who created the first drug courts saw that the old system of putting offenders in jail for drug addiction didn't work.

He said the criminal justice system could also expect to face greater costs and delays as permanent residents facing the disproportionate punishment of deportation fight charges rather than accepting responsibility for a crime that carries the potential of six months in jail.

The direction these changes set out for the Canadian criminal justice system — jail more often, for longer, with more lasting consequences — is a dangerous route that is unsupported by the social science evidence and has already failed in other countries.

See the Lawson studies at: CORRECTIONS: TOUGH ON CRIME PHILOSPHY by ROBERT G. LAWSON Discussion of the effect of Tough On Crime sentencing policies on the public - and CORRECTIONS: TURNING JAILS INTO PRISONS - BY ROBERT G. LAWSON — Collateral Damage from Kentucky's War on Crime3) Ethics Code for Governors Executive Office Staff: We suggest that the Governor impose a simple ethics code for all members of his executive office, that mandates respect for the law, particularly the Merit System.

Let»em send me to jail for contempt, because I DO hold the law and the justice system in contempt!

«I've been practising in this area for a long time,» says Jackman, but it wasn't until she assisted in Ogiamien v. Ontario, 2016 ONSC 3080 — a case involving two inmates, one of them an immigration detainee since 2013, who successfully argued that their Charter rights were violated by lockdowns at a Milton jail last year — that she realized «there's no structure to the detention system.

Not only with having your blood alcohol level above the local legal limit invalidate your travel medical insurance if you do have to visit the emergency room, it's highly illegal in some countries who will jail a traveler for having even a drop of alcohol in their system and driving.

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