Sentences with phrase «life sentence prisoner»

A public consultation on a prisoner's right to vote has been announced by the government following the European Court of Human Rights» ruling in Hirst v United Kingdom in which a life sentence prisoner successfully challenged the UK's current arrangements.

As a mandatory life sentence prisoner the respondent could not complain that the burden of establishing that he could safely be re-released rested on him.»

Thus in Secretary of State for the Home Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reasons.

Ex-UVF life sentence prisoner Billy Hutchinson came top in the Court Ward of the city.

«We will cease to treat IPPs like life sentence prisoners, and instead manage them through the closed estate in the same way as determinate sentence prisoners.»

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.

California, leading the Gadarene rush over the cliff as usual, now provides state - funded «sex - reassignment surgery» to prisoners; the first recipient of this «benefit» was Shiloh Heavenly Quine, a first - degree murderer / kidnapper serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.

Today's ruling decided that Miller v. Alabama can be applied retroactively to minors who had already been sentenced to life in prison in 2012, now giving prisoners the chance to negotiate shorter sentences or even parole.

It has been a long time since a «life sentence» meant that the prisoner would stay in prison for the rest of his natural life.

However, The Sun articles claim - entirely falsely - that this was a decision of the parole board (which has no involvement in HDC and deals only with prisoner serving life, indeterminate sentences and recalls) and has been «a victory» for the tabloid and its loyal readers.

Prisoners serving more than four years but less than a life sentence were also less likely to be released on parole, the figures show, with the proportion of accepted requests falling from 49 per cent last year to 35.7 per cent in the latest six - month period.

The past president of the Prison Governors» Association said: «The blanket ban on sentenced prisoners» voting is out of step in a modern prison service and runs counter to resettlement work which aims to ensure that prisoners lead a responsible, law - abiding life on release.»

It says that if all death - sentenced defendants remained under this sentence indefinitely, as opposed to being taken off death row due to being resentenced to life in prison or their fate being artificially cut off by the study ending, then 4.1 percent of those prisoners would have otherwise been exonerated.

She believed she was helping injured German soldiers and the lives of the concentration prisoners were unimportant because they had been sentenced to death anyway.

But for all his accomplishments, Smith says the most important scholarship he's done has been his work with prisoners serving life sentences.

When Asha Bandele, a young poet, fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty - to - life sentence and became pregnant with his daughter, she had reason to hope they would live together as a family.

Advice and representation for pre-tariff reviews for life and indeterminate sentence prisoners before the Parole Board;

Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) is a nonprofit law office that represents innocent prisoners serving life sentences in Louisiana and Mississippi at no cost to them or their loved ones, and assists them with their transition into the free world upon their release.

Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) is a nonprofit law office that represents innocent prisoners serving life sentences in Louisiana and Mississippi, and assists them with their transition into the free world upon their release.

Whole - life sentences without prospect of release breach prisoners» human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

In addition to Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and vocational training, the NDCS offers relationship, life skills, and parenting programs for inmates.62 Facilities in Kansas choose to offer either the InsideOut or Active Parenting Now programs, and can combine them with Play and Learn classes, in which inmates can apply the skills from the curricula with their children in a supervised setting.63 Washington has implemented two Parenting Sentencing Alternatives to keep nonviolent offenders with minor children out of prison: the Family and Offender Sentencing Alternative (FOSA), in which offenders» sentences are waived and they are placed under community supervision, and the Community Parenting Alternative (CPA), a partial confinement program in which offenders remain under electronic monitoring surveillance.64 These two programs are in addition to Washington's Strength in Families program, which is a parenting, relationship, and employment readiness program for soon - to - be-released prisoners.