Sentences with phrase «justice system fail»

When the bullshit criminal justice system fails to convict the swaggeringly unrepentant culprits, this woman completes the half - finished samurai tattoo she has on her side, and resolves to take matters into her own hands; her late husband's extended family and community having apparently fallen silent on the subject of legal or illegal means of redress.

This fascinating, deeply troubling book has the power to spark a national conversation about how our criminal justice system fails victims, and how it can be reformed.»

«The jury didn't fail him, but the criminal justice system failed him.»

Is the justice system failing the test of accessibility and timeliness?

If the criminal justice system fails one way or the other, the civil justice system will step in, that's for sure.

«The criminal justice system failed to treat [Gladue] with dignity and with respect as a human being,» says Stanton.

In the cases I reviewed here, every official in the justice system failed the test — a governing body of the legal profession that released documents to the police without a warrant, a judge who granted a wiretap authorization with a general warrant to search mobile devices without limitation other than a temporal one and a Crown attorney who released privileged information after presumptively reviewing it for disclosure purposes under the Stinchcombe regime.

In her case, the judge said that the criminal justice system failed Aboriginal people and too many Aboriginal people were being sent to jail.

The true tragedy here is that the criminal justice system failed spectacularly.

The experience of women accessing our services tells us that, more often than not, the criminal justice system fails to protect women from family violence, with punitive approaches providing an incomplete response to stopping the violence.

Not exact matches

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

«Whether it is fake accounts at Wells Fargo or a massive data breach at Equifax, recent scandals have demonstrated that consumers need to access the justice system when a big, powerful company opens accounts in their name, without their consent, and leaves them vulnerable to fraud by failing to secure their personal data,» said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D - Nev.

The series isn't exactly easy to watch — these are real violent crimes, after all — but the show gives a look at the failings of the justice system while also offering a somewhat unsettling character study.

And in such a system, as Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1928, the «existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously....

While I appreciate Joseph Bottum's philosophical objection to capital punishment, he fails to take into account the justice system that he claims to prefer.

The root of the community's unrest was decades of frustration with the American justice system that had failed them for so long.

They are victims of failed states — a reminder of the importance of well - governed societies for any global system of justice.

«In his preoccupation with the analysis of the capitalist system, he (Marx) failed to do justice to the sphere of the personal and the subjective, the sphere where the human drama of hope and despair, love and hate, death and survival is enacted... Had Marx paid sufficient attention to these existential problems, he might have been led to a more critical assessment of his atheist stance.»

To the extent that one fails to take seriously Hartshorne's particular understanding of experience as creative synthesis or his demand that one constantly confront the question of God, one can not do justice to his ethical system.

Protesting an occasion when the criminal justice system worked (a suspect was quickly identified and apprehended, and will go to trial) seems misguided, if we seek justice for those who have been failed by the criminal justice system.

They may have recently broken up with a girlfriend or boyfriend; failed an exam or had a decline in school performance; shown signs of an eating disorder; or have become involved somehow with the justice system.

While repeated calls from academia and public health have failed to convince most politicians, the group hopes calls from within the criminal justice system will finally make them listen.

The justice secretary appears to understand what needs to be done to fix Britain's prison system and the crime it fails to prevent.

If David Gauke wants to draw a line under the failings of his predecessors, he must help offenders tackle mental health issues that can contribute to their entry into the criminal justice system in the first place.

Although the particular consequences of the criminal justice system's failures were exceptional in this instance, our research suggests that the case is worryingly indicative of wider, systemic failings.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

The justice system has always failed Asian - Americans.

Justice, delivered by the lowest bidder, coupled with arbitrary rate cuts will create an unviable system of legal aid that fails to grasp the importance of client choice, competition and quality.

Thirty - three years on, India's justice system has been shown to have spectacularly failed the victims of» 84.

The focus is on the criminal justice system which fails the 70 to 80 per cent of women who don't report abuse,» she told politics.co.uk.

Stats from this Wikipedia entry The justice system sometimes fails.

Until prejudice such as this is eradicated, people with a learning disability will continue to be failed by the system and denied justice.

You have listened to their mothers, fathers, children and family members demand justice after the system failed time and again to hold the police officers responsible for their deaths accountable.

Today, all institutions of governance are afflicted by the virus of a failed system and the clamour has again resumed with some calling for the return to parliamentary constitution or a thoroughly modified presidential system with devolution of powers to the states, independence of local government areas, restructuring, separation of office of Attorney - General from that of Minister of Justice, etc..

He cited homelessness, the criminal justice system and mental health care as issues that The Bronx continues to struggle with, and although he criticized the city for its handling of the homelessness issue, his overall tone was milder than in his 2016 speech, when he hinted at a run for mayor and said the city had «failed» the borough during its outbreak of Legionnaires» disease.

In his remarks, a representative of Chief Edwin Clark, Chief Mike Emakpere, said the people of the South - South were of the opinion that the current system had failed hence the need to revisit it in other for equity and justice to prevail.

Our criminal justice system needs a major overhaul and mental health care in this city is failing our citizens.

Schneiderman says Donovan is a nice man, but he represents the past and the old, failed ways of the justice system.

Mr. Cuomo, reacting to the mass protests against police brutality that have convulsed the country since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., argued that «today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.»

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has championed the Senate Democrats» criminal justice reform platform, which includes «Raise the Age,» said it was particularly stunning to see the issue fail when there is so much focus nationally on reforming the justice system.

«They may fail to develop secure attachments, setting them up for a cascade of difficulties, from behavior problems during childhood and failure in school to involvement in the juvenile justice system and major psychiatric problems down the road.»

Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die.

This one might also appeal to fans of HBO's «The Night Of» for its look at how the criminal justice system works... and sometimes fails.

That to me is the genius of this film - Mildred so angry, bitter and grievous - wanting justice for her daughter at any cost since the system has failed her.

A new, chilling documentary called «Strong Island» sheds light on a horrifying murder, a failing justice system, and one family's fight for justice for...

A new, chilling documentary called «Strong Island» sheds light on a horrifying murder, a failing justice system, and one family's fight for justice for 24 - year old William Ford.

«To me, being a warrior for social justice means doing whatever it takes to change the odds for kids who are stuck in failing school systems,» she says.

We have a series of failing and interdependent systems: Educational justice is connected to economic justice, racial justice, environmental justice, religious justice, queer justice, citizenship justice, and disability justice.

When those students are suspended, they are more likely to fail academically, to drop out, and to end up involved in the criminal justice system.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure, laid out an ambitious social agenda on Wednesday that focuses on problems not so easily solved with cash: the erosion of confidence in the criminal justice system, public schools and teachers that he said were failing students, and a creeping sense that economic mobility is not what it once was.