Sentences with phrase «new penal»

Harsh new penal communities have formed in order to survive.

After which he fell fowl of the law and was transported to the new penal settlement at Sullivan's Bay in 1803 (near Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula).

In Chad a new penal code that made no allowance for the death penalty was approved.

Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch said: «The new penal code [banning abortion] doesn't just go against basic human rights: It goes against fundamental principles of humanity».

Not exact matches

Under New York penal law 225, a contest is illegal gambling if a player stakes «something of value» in a contest that the player does not «control or influence the outcome.»

Now I believe in penal substitution atonement but I also believe in what you are saying in regards to the New covenant and the shedding of blood being needed to usher in that covenant.

In his ruling, N.Y. Supreme Court justice Manuel Mendez wrote, «New York State penal law does not refer to «wagering» or «betting,» rather it states that a person, «risks something of value.

«New York State penal law does not refer to «wagering» or «betting,» rather it states that a person, «risks something of value.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — On Tuesday night, in response to the Journal News» map, the Rockland County Legislature urged the State Legislature to introduce and pass two bills, one amending state penal law to protect the confidentiality of pistol license application information and another condemning the paper for exercising poor judgment in publishing -LSB-...]

New City — On Tuesday night, in response to the Journal News» map, the Rockland County Legislature urged the State Legislature to introduce and pass two bills, one amending state penal law to protect the confidentiality of pistol license application information and another condemning the paper for exercising poor judgment in publishing the map.

Now, Leo Wolters Tejera is adding his voice to a growing number of salon and barbershop owners calling for a change to the New York's penal code.

The proposed legislation adds «synthetic cannabinoids» to the pre-existing crimes of selling marijuana under New York State's penal law.

The bill also legally defines criminal street gangs for the first time in New York's penal statutes.

Tedisco's bill, which is being drafted, would amend New York State's penal law to make any person regardless of their age who is convicted of knock out game individual assault or gang assault to face up to 25 years in prison (currently it's between 4 - 15 years depending on the age of the defendant).

The number of officers in public sector prisons has been cut by 41 % in less than four years, according to new figures obtained by penal reformers.

The measures include a new statute in the penal law that is based on the existing hate crime statute.

He says we will see another in «a new approach to penal reform» which will end «mass criminalisation of young people» and Labour's «build and fill»em approach to prisons».

Speaking Sunday at a press conference detailing the report, the head of the 27 - member commission, former New York Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman, excoriated Rikers Island as a «penal colony» physically and psychologically remote from the city at large that does far more harm than good to anyone who ends up there.

Various proposed penal reforms, allegations of abuse at the Fishkill Correctional Facility and the June escape of two convicts from Clinton Correctional Facility kept New York's prison guards at the center of attention for much of 2015.

«I don't believe current penal law statutes really address forms of criminal behavior of this magnitude,» said New York State Senator and Brooklyn Borough President - elect Eric Adams.

A new device that can detect a prisoner's vital signs from a wall or ceiling metres away could be used to tackle steep suicide rates in the penal system.

For about 50,000 years After the European discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788.

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.

Charlie Hunnam (The Lost City of Z) and Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) take on the roles previously played by Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, in this new screen adaptation of Henri Charrière's memoir of his imprisonment and repeated escapes from the notorious penal colony of Devil's Island.

Named the best educational documentary by the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, The War on Kids argues that the U.S. public school system has more in common with a penal system than anything educational.

New South Wales was originally settled as a penal colony on the shores of Port Jackson where the bustling capital city of Sydney now stands.

Despite naming their discovery «New Holland» the Dutch did not settle here; that honour went to the British who established a penal colony, to which convicts were deported by ship, on 26 January 1788, where the city of Sydney now stands.

For this exhibition, Conrad will reconfigure his prison project, adding a new series of diagrammatic works on canvas, effectively projecting the disciplinary penal institution through the kunsthalle's architectural and institutional context.

In New Jersey (a model penal code state), automobile theft is just theft with different penalties or the separate crime of joyriding.