Sentences with phrase «mass imprisonment»

«Sable is emerging as one of the most interesting voices out of a young generation of artists whose work tackles complex issues, such as mass imprisonment and how the incarceration system affects our lives,» says Cecilia Alemani, director and chief curator of High Line Art.

What the British did in Kenya to suppress the pro-independence mau - mau uprising in the 1950s, using murder, torture and mass imprisonment, was no more excusable than the mass arrests and political assassinations committed by Belgium when it was trying to cling on to the Congo.

Although the scandal of mass imprisonment of blacks has begun to receive wide attention, Murray strikingly notes a fivefold increase in Fishtown prisoners, by definition all white, with no increase from the infinitesimal level of imprisonment in Belmont.

Indeed in a century where irrationalities and horrors of all sorts — mass executions, mass imprisonments, wars of annihilation, revolutions, rebellions and depressions — have been common, the events of that decade in America:

Not exact matches

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

For masterminds of mass crimes, nothing short of long - term imprisonment can express adequate penance.

«This murder / excessive force / mass shooting / act of discrimination / imprisonment was an isolated incident and not indicative of a larger cultural problem.

The bill mentions «abduction, enslavement, killing, imprisonment, forced mass relocation, rape, crucifixion, or other forms of torture, and the imposition of fines or penalties that have a confiscatory purpose or effect» (CT, Aug. 11, 1997, p. 61).

And while both of her parents survived their imprisonment, Delijani's uncle was one of thousands killed in a mass execution at the war's end.

A day of programs addressing mass incarceration and displacement, including workshops, a teach - in on the Reconstruction Era, and a public dialogue on the present state of reentry and imprisonment in Philadelphia.

A person who, without lawful authority, manufactures, possesses, sells, delivers, sends, mails, displays, uses, threatens to use, attempts to use, or conspires to use, or who makes readily accessible to others a weapon of mass destruction commits a felony of the first degree, punishable by imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life or as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084, and if death results, commits a capital felony, punishable as provided in s. 775.082.