Sentences with phrase «justice than the system»

I do not know that tribunals will provide better access to justice than the system under which we operate.

Not exact matches

Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.

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.

Eugene Methvin, who has reported on the U.S. criminal justice system for more than forty years and who served (from 1983 - 1986) on the President's Commission on Organized Crime, has done extensive analysis on crime and punishment findings.

The Prison Reform Trust has said children in care in England and Wales aged 10 - 17 are five times more likely enter the criminal justice system than other children of their age.

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.

Whether we place our faith in science, religion, education, government, the justice system or nothing more than the accuracy of the tube map in the front of our diary, each one of us lives by faith in whatever we trust to be reliable and true.

The American justice system has always been more about protecting the innocent than punishing the guilty.

The politicians rule us, rather than represent us, and the justice system has been replaced by a legal system wherein the judges and lawyers play games at the expense of the taxpayers.

Therefore the comment about the inmates being in control is more than a mere aside, it underscores a narrative about American culture and its system of justice.

Now, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services reports, «a large number of violent offenders are serving two, three or four times longer under truth - in - sentencing than criminals who committed similar offenses under the parole system.»

The justice system is worse off than I thought it to be.

you can have a court system that is supposed to deal non-violently with solutions to these dillimmas but mostely it is entertainment and laughable in it's core justice to begin with humans are human so how does the newer muslim prophet propose to become more than human in response to violence and as a tool for enactment for change — if necessary?

A democratic political system makes possible both more equality and more liberty in the right sense, and hence more justice, than any other alternative system.

I think, for instance, of Chuck Colson, who did more than any other man in the last probably 100 years in American life in calling the Church to remember prisoners and to think about implications of the justice system.

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

In order to do justice to the idea of a divine Torah, it does not even suffice to say that the Hebrew Torah has a greater extension than what we call a moral commandment and that it is applied to the whole legislative system that the Old Testament tradition connected with Moses.

When you look at Scripture, God's justice is asking different questions than I think we do in the contemporary criminal justice system.

Have you ever noticed black suspects show up on our nightly news at much higher percentages than they show up in our criminal justice system?

The first lesson is that those cycled through the criminal justice system need to be seen as more than criminals.

The internet moves so much faster than the justice system — which only serves to destroy reputations.

The criminal Justice system has it flaws but it a lot more reliable than the court of public opinion

Speaking of conflict, Bottom discovered that more men are upset by the lack of justice in «the system» than at their former wives.

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

An example that is particularly relevant since the question alludes to the use of the criminal justice system to enforce property rights is that in Germany and some Nordic countries, they punish many less serious criminal offenses with «day - fines» rather than incarceration.

We have a stronger economy, a cleaner environment, a fairer criminal justice system, and more high school graduates attending college than ever before.

If you're black, you're treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you're white.

With figures from the British Crime Survey showing that twice as many people believe the criminal justice system is fair to those accused of committing a crime (80 %) than meets the needs of a victim of crime (36 %), there is a clear need to ensure the rights of victims are protected.

The criminal justice system must place higher priority on the rights of people who keep to the law than on those who break it, Tony Blair has insisted.

«We encourage you to investigate whether these and other predatory practices are more widespread than previously reported, whether there is a growing trend of property owners using our judicial system to intimidate or extract money or other concessions from tenants, and whether these practices are out of line with the norms and standards of our justice system and tenants» right to due process.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail system.

In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.

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Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

This power of exposure is a far more effective deterrent in many countries, including our own, than the court systems that deliver judgment and not necessarily justice.

Has the UK prosecuted, or attempted to prosecute, individuals for jumping bail, or otherwise trying to evade the justice system, other than with Julian Assange?

But taking this sort of far - sighted attitude - for instance by embedding alcohol dependence and mental health services in the criminal justice system - requires a more ceberal secretary of state than the one currently occupying the Ministry of Jjustice system - requires a more ceberal secretary of state than the one currently occupying the Ministry of JusticeJustice.

Cuts of more than 25 % in the criminal justice system means the government is trying to deliver «justice on the cheap», the Public and Commercial Services union says.

On criminal justice and asylum, the Lib Dems give a different weight to rights and responsibilities, and they favour more proportional voting systems, although with Labour's support for a referendum on the alternative vote this is now a debate about the nature rather than the principle of reform.

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

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.

Question: Eighteen months ago, the Town Board authorized spending $ 36,000 on an audit of its Justice Court system after it was learned that a now - former clerk had stolen more than $ 230,000 from the town's bail fund.

According to SERAP, «Rather than proposing amnesty for suspected looters of our commonwealth, the House of Representatives under your leadership should be promoting laws that would lead to the comprehensive and radical reform of the criminal justice system to ensure that those accused of grand corruption are not allowed to profit from their alleged crimes.»

Treating 16 and 17 year olds as children, rather than adults, in the justice system will positively impact the lives of roughly 1,000 Westchester youth every single year.

Studies have shown that young people transferred to the adult criminal justice system are 34 % more likely to be re-arrested for violent and other crimes than youth retained in a youth justice system.

«It is unforgivable and the underprivileged bear the brunt of the criminal justice system that does more to break them down than it does to keep our communities safe,» Heastie said.

Flanked by more than two dozen city and state lawmakers, Schneiderman said the public has «lost confidence in this part of our criminal justice system,» and said «that erosion of trust and confidence must be addressed and must be addressed now.»

«I firmly believe that New York can develop an approach to marijuana regulation that addresses public health concerns while reducing the exposure of so many people, and particularly young people of color, to interactions with the criminal justice system that have much more damaging life consequences than marijuana use,» said state Sen. Liz Krueger (D - Manhattan), who's sponsored a bill that would legalize, regulate and tax pot.

Might have something to do with: 1) knowing that there is less chance of being caught than years ago: 2) you will be dealt with leniently, unless of course you are a former Tory minister, in which case our lefty justice system tries to make an example of you.

More than anything else; Family Court deals primarily with child support and juvenile offenders not yet under the jurisdiction of the adult criminal justice system.