Sentences with phrase «justice system the people»

They have always known that «In the criminal justice system the people have been represented by two separate yet equally important groups.»

Not exact matches

Tuesday night, Sanders expressed the same disbelief: «We have a criminal justice system that lets CEOs on Wall Street walk away, and yet we are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.»

Another focused on the criminal justice system, helping people navigate the traffic court system and reduce the system's disproportionate impact on low - income citizens.

The American people's trust in our criminal justice system is in Rosenstein's hands.

If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade itsJustice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade itsjustice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

He went on to use the specifics of Mill's case to paint a picture of injustice in the criminal justice system at large, including how black people are disproportionately imprisoned for probation or parole violations.

«What's happening to Meek Mill is just one example of how our criminal justice system entraps and harasses hundreds of thousands of black people every day,» Jay - Z wrote.

«It would have helped people rebuild their lives, it would have unclogged the criminal justice system and allowed us to devote our resources to those people who truly deserve long terms of incarceration,» Lynch said.

Even though algorithms decide so much of a citizen's life — what ads a person sees, what political messages they hear, what kinds of loans they can get, how they fair in the criminal justice system — these things are all under the sway of algorithms, and most consumers don't feel empowered to push back because they don't know the math.

RICHMOND, B.C. — A Vancouver sex - trade activist recounted the justice system's failure to protect women who were killed or have disappeared as posters of missing persons were shown on screens Wednesday at a national inquiry.

«The most advanced justice system in the world is a failure if it does not provide accessible justice to the people it is meant to serve.»

Not talking about race will not magically change the fact that the criminal justice system is much harder on black and other non-white suspects than it is on white people.

We get even!!!! And we bring these people to justice for their malicious abuse of the legal system.

Just try to grasp a sense of decency or a justice system that treats all people fairly, equally.

Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.

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.

He said: «Once they [the Nigerian government] allow people to take the justice systems of their own choice and mete it upon their fellow neighbours there will be revenge one day.

You clearly have no notion of how our justice system operates if you think it's a valid choice to kill people who have otherwise shown to have committed no crime.

They want to keep young people out of the criminal justice system and end the pernicious cycle of re-offending.

We will find the person responsible for this attack and bring the full force of the federal justice system to bear.»

Why is it that people will give millions of dollars for bigger church buildings and louder sound systems, and not take up the causes of social justice and world missions?

But I would like to point out several dangers in the thinking of those who reject the concept of justice based on creation ordinances known to all persons, regardless of their religious persuasion or soteriological and revelational systems.

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).

The other part is we have to have churches that are ministering to people in the criminal justice system.

We're in a cultural moment where more and more people are looking suspiciously at a justice system that seems untrustworthy.

The fact is, people are judged on a daily bases by other people, thus the justice system.

Justice is the rule in institutions and «justice belongs,» says Brunner, «to the world of systems, not to the world of persJustice is the rule in institutions and «justice belongs,» says Brunner, «to the world of systems, not to the world of persjustice belongs,» says Brunner, «to the world of systems, not to the world of persons....

It's little comfort but at least the justice system might give the people of KC some closure, more so than with murder + suicides.

Whether this will lead to global destruction in the clash of competing systems or to a greater measure of freedom and justice through the lifting of the living standards of the underprivileged peoples of the earth, no one can predict.

This is certainly a step in the right direction of creating a balanced justice system — one in which big businesses can not capitalize on people's lapses in judgment.

Thus we have the judicial system, because we as a people also believe in justice and the removal evil.

I think the way to do consciousness - raising in the church about justice is to try to get people in touch with the way in which systems effect individual lives.

For example, one of the great problems of the criminal - justice system is that not enough reform - minded people enter the field.

Islam, is a complete system of living for people who love God, who want to uphold justice, and serve humanity, a system that bring every color of varying statuses into one society.

All of the justice systems of the Western world are based on Aristotle's definition of justice that each person will get what he or she deserves.

This is certainly a step in the right direction of creating a balanced justice system — one that does not allow big business to capitalize off of people's lapses in judgment.

Believing in a person's innocence until he or she has been proven guilty is an important legal principle that is at the very bedrock of the American justice system.

«I frankly don't know how I am going to come up with the rest of the money,» Thomson told Sun News Network's Brian Lilley on Byline.Canada's justice system has a knack for punishing people for defending themselves and their property, often called «castle law.MORE: Court drops final charge against Ontario man who fired shots to protect his home under attack by firebombers Joseph and Marilyn Singleton of Taber, Alberta spent $ 30,000 in court.

Beth Messersmith: So we think that Smart Start and early learning, the investments that we make in early childhood, for every dollar invested economists say that there is an $ 8 to $ 12 return on investment because it makes such a tremendous difference in terms of long - term wages, success in school, keeping people out of the criminal justice system.

A program with a narrow perspective — from any faith — may not do justice to the complexities of world affairs in which people of different faiths and belief systems interact.

In our justice system, we believe it is more important that innocent people do not go to jail, than making sure the guilty do.

The criminal justice system is still «distant from what most reasonable people want», Tony Blair said today.

«Arrests are something that some activists are willing to face when fighting for justice but when two people are held in prison because they wish to remain anonymous, we can see the immorality within the justice system.»

The intolerable outbreak of crime we saw on the streets of our cities this summer shined a light on our youth justice system and the underlying reasons why young people sometimes feel they have nothing to lose and a lot to gain from crime.

We now have, I hope, an opportunity for a grown up debate on how to make our youth justice system work, for the young people within it and the communities it protects — by examining the root causes of youth offending, what preventative action can be taken, how to most appropriately punish and reform offenders and rehabilitate them back into our society.

And how our youth justice system can be made to work for the young people within it.

Eliminating unproductive competition in this way would free up resources for supporting (and diverting) people at risk of entering the criminal justice system.

Similarly to a trusted justice system, other requirements that are commonly present in «one person, one vote» systems are based around trusted institutions, for example excluding mentally unstable citizens from voting would require that the population generally and overwhelmingly trust the society's health system.

These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.