Sentences with phrase «justice system officials»

Another problem is the continued stigmatization of addiction, which contributes to lawmakers, criminal justice system officials and insurers underfunding and underutilizing prevention and medical treatment programs.

Not exact matches

It will call on the departments of Labor, Justice, Homeland Security and State to take action to crack down on what the official called «fraud and abuse» in the U.S. immigration system to protect American workers.

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

They found that law enforcement officials were not, as they had previously thought, dispensers of evenhanded justice but were often spearheads of a system of injustice.

You intend to destroy her from within using our own justice systems and elected paid off officials who also have never served.

Mr. de Becker is the designer of the MOSAIC threat assessment systems used to screen threats to Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, members of Congress, and senior officials of the CIA.

The Queens District Attorney's Office has resisted any calls for substantive criminal justice system reform, because no elected official dares to stand up to District Attorney Brown or the powerful Democratic Party county committee that supports him.

ALBANY — Three months ago, Akeem Browder said it was an «honor» to have the story of his brother Kalief told at Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's State of the State address and to have officials vow to change the criminal justice system.

Reprieve executive director Clare Algar added: «These plans would wreck our justice system, and put politicians and officials above the law.

Elected officials promised us that his story would be a turning point and that New York would fundamentally transform a criminal justice system designed to criminalize low - income black and brown New Yorkers and then place a bounty, through the money bail system, on our freedom.

«There's a feeling that the system of criminal justice, the officials in criminal justice system, are too close to law enforcement.

The statement read in part, «SERAP urges Professor Osinbajo to instruct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to immediately improve the system of protection for the officials of EFCC and other anti-corruption agencies.

Fitzpatrick says prosecutors across the state are willing to talk to state officials about programs to help teens caught up in the adult criminal justice system.

Other stakeholders in the Justice System including, officials of the Ministry of Justice, Private lawyers, the police, the prison and their service delivery.

Also at 11 a.m., elected officials and activists will launch the «Raise the Age New York» campaign — a movement to increase the age at which teens are prosecuted as adults in the criminal justice system, outside Manhattan Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, Lower Manhattan.

Double jeopardy is a pretty fundamental element to the US criminal justice system, but does it apply to a US President (or other impeachable official) and the trial - like impeachment proceedings in Congress?

Before taking on the New York City school system, Klein was an executive with German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, and before that a longtime Justice Department official.

We look forward to working with our elected officials to ensure that all youth who enter the justice system receive the treatment they need to succeed,» said Naomi Post, Executive Director and Beth Powers, Director of Youth Justice, Children's Defense Fund — Nejustice system receive the treatment they need to succeed,» said Naomi Post, Executive Director and Beth Powers, Director of Youth Justice, Children's Defense Fund — NeJustice, Children's Defense Fund — New York.

«We share the concerns of community members, law enforcement officials and youth facility staff that current policies at the Office of Child and Family Services, including the closure of 14 youth facilities, are making a bad situation worse in the juvenile justice system,» said CSEA President Danny Donohue.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to hold the attention of the people of New York and its lawmakers continued into its second week on Monday with two more detailed presentations on elements of his «Opportunity Agenda»: reforms to the juvenile justice system and the proposed creation of a commission to decide on salary increases for lawmakers and top state officials.

The problems are so severe that the United States Department of Justice threatened last year to take over the entire state system unless New York officials moved to fix them.

In August 2002, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg selected former corporate executive and Justice Department official Joel I. Klein to become chancellor of the nation's largest school system — a system that had just come under mayoral control.

District officials say it's evidence that their goal of keeping young people out of the criminal justice system whenever possible is starting to show results.

Advocates have pressured school officials and policy - makers to end these suspensions, expulsions, and school - based arrests, which they say push too many students into the criminal justice system — a process commonly referred to as the «school - to - prison pipeline.»

Users either receive authorization from FMCSA to access CDLIS, or may receive it, if they are law enforcement agencies, from their State's criminal justice information system (CJIS), for enforcing FMCSA CDL regulations as part of their official duties [e.g., State officials enforcing regulations in support of the FMCSA Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP)-RSB-.

That is why the Better Bike Share Partnership is bringing together the people who collectively can make it happen — system operators, city transportation officials, social justice advocates, and the people that work directly with the low - income neighborhoods that bike share aims to reach.

... some legal experts question the degree to which religious symbolism should be mixing with the official business of the state, including the workings of its justice system.

or allow to Run Compensation Suit Simultaneously with suits file by Bank Officials under ARTHA RIN ACT with equal opportunity and equal right so as to restore total accountability, which will be similar to DRT (Debt Recovery Tribunal of INDIA)(B)- Considering the Heavy loss and Damages of Government Registered and Identified SICK INDUSTRIES of 1992 & 1996 of Private Sector due to Negligence, Violation of Contract & Non-Banking Activities etc. of Bank Officials and Policy Maker & need 100 % Weaver of all type of Bank loan liabilities to minimize their heavy loss and damages to certain extent under LIMITATION ACT (C)- The system of keeping mortgage of Land & Properties from the Owner of Industries by Bank or any Loan Giving Agencies as Securities are mostly responsible for Malpractices and ever growing Corruption, & Fraudulent Activities in Banking Sector, which are now proven matter and may kindly be completely abolished as a part of reform programs at earliest possible time to ESTABLISH ACCOUNTABILITY and Check Malpractices, Fraudulent Activities which are now growing by large in Banking Sector or in other Loan Giving Agencies upto root Levels (D)-- All suits of Artha Rin Court may kindly be transferred to Civil Commercial Court abolishing SECTIONS 12, 12 (khan) 18 (2) & (3) 19, 20, 21, 34,40, 41, 42, 44, 47 and 50 of ARTHA RIN ACT -2003 for the end of Justice.

Petty Justice uses an unusually well - documented example of the colonial sessions system in Loyalist New Brunswick to examine the role of justices of the peace and other front - line low law officials like customs officers and deputy land surveyors in colonial local government — U of T Press

Courts «view jury nullification as a pernicious element in the criminal justice system... the jury's official role in court proceedings is limited solely to judging the facts of the case and applying the law as given by the judge to those facts» (Travis Hreno, «Necessity and Jury Nullification» (2007) 20 CJLJ 351 at para. 2)

In addition to the official IAEG global indicators — measuring the proportion of victims of violence that report their victimization to the police as well as unsentenced detainees as a proportion of the overall prison population — WJP's Index scores provide a holistic picture of the accessibility, affordability, impartiality, and effectiveness of civil justice systems, and of the capacity of criminal justice systems to investigate and adjudicate criminal offenses through an impartial system that protects the rights of victims and the accused.

Time is running out for the practice of leaving video suites in courts, the official in charge of computerising the justice system said last week.

Of the various segments identified in the opening paragraph (lawyers, judges, ministry of justice officials, law professors and law students), it is the judiciary which has the ability to impose and enforce rules, to ration court resources and to steward the process of reforming the system which they, ultimately, run.

The pattern of crisis management is familiar at this point; cries of concern over the state of access to justice are finally echoed by high - ranking officials like the Chief Justice and the Governor - General, the mainstream media takes note, and very smart lawyers eventually busy themselves with the task of reforming the same broken system that many of them helped to build and that, in turn, helped all of them to pjustice are finally echoed by high - ranking officials like the Chief Justice and the Governor - General, the mainstream media takes note, and very smart lawyers eventually busy themselves with the task of reforming the same broken system that many of them helped to build and that, in turn, helped all of them to pJustice and the Governor - General, the mainstream media takes note, and very smart lawyers eventually busy themselves with the task of reforming the same broken system that many of them helped to build and that, in turn, helped all of them to prosper.

In addition, it is plausible that this proposed process may serve as a form of deterrence against misconduct by officials within the criminal justice system.

The Constitution creates official positions outside the judicial branch essential to the administration of justice and to the operation of the state's judicial system.

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.

As reported in this official press release, the «United States Sentencing Commission today released a new publication — An Overview of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System (2017 Overview)-- that examines the use of federal mandatory minimum penalties and the impact of those penalties on the federal prison population.»

Once Mr. Khadr is repatriated, it will be up to officials in the Canadian justice system to conduct an independent assessment of admissible evidence against him, to determine whether this evidence supports charges under Canadian law, and if so, whether he should be tried as an adult or a child.

If justice officials can't get their heads around such basic access questions, then I have no faith the system can improve anytime soon.

The Forum on Vulnerable Young Francophones in Minority Communities who are at risk of becoming involved with the justice system brought together officials from federal institutions and representatives from community organizations to discuss the needs of this target population.