Sentences with phrase «of federal penitentiaries»

He also worked for the Correctional Law Project, providing representation to inmates of federal penitentiaries at their internal tribunals, and also with a wills and estates litigator in Kingston to help prepare for two trials.

Not exact matches

But since 2008, the 43 - year old founder of the pest control company Bugs Are Gone has been visiting both state and federal penitentiaries, mentoring people on how to become business owners.

At the turn of the century, according to Suzanne Schlosberg, author of The Ultimate Workout Log, primitive stair machines were used for punishment in federal penitentiaries.

Oddities tended to attract an undue share of public attention: there was amusement over the King and Queen of England eating hot dogs while visiting President Roosevelt at Hyde Park; outrage when the President changed the date of Thanksgiving from November 30 to November 23; excitement when Al Capone was released from a federal penitentiary after serving more than seven years for income tax evasion.

But because she had recently violated a section of the law that forbids lobbyists from sending people on expensive junkets (something about paying a congressman to go on an «educational» tour of Indonesia regarding taxes on palm oil), she is called up for a Senate hearing led by Senator Ron M. Sperling (John Lithgow), who is in the pocket of the gun people and seeks to send her to a federal penitentiary.

San Francisco, CA — Chinese artist and rights advocate Ai Weiwei will create a new body of site - specific artwork on Alcatraz Island, the notorious former federal penitentiary in the center of San Francisco Bay, now a national park welcoming more than a million visitors annually.

Alcatraz Island offers a close - up look at the site of the first lighthouse and US built fort on the West Coast, the infamous federal penitentiary long off - limits to the public, and the history making 18 month occupation by Indians of All Tribes.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2007: During its 29 years as the toughest and most feared federal penitentiary in America, Alcatraz was «home» to many of the most notorious criminals and gangsters in U.S. history.

Alcatraz, the world - famous former Federal penitentiary and International visitor destination in the center of San Francisco Bay, has just benefited from a multi-million-dollar restoration and renovation that has dramatically transformed and improved the way visitors experience the iconic national park.

The National Park Service marked the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Alcatraz federal penitentiary on Thursday with an exhibit of recently discovered photographs of the prison's final day on March 21, 1963.

Installed across four locations on Alcatraz and on view from September 27, 2014, through April 26, 2015, the exhibition is inspired by the island's layered history as a 19th - century military fortress, notorious federal penitentiary, significant site of Native American history, and now one of America's most visited national parks.

Seven installations were spread throughout this federal penitentiary turned national park, and ranged from an audio experience in the former hospital ward to a carpet of Legos arranged into the faces of political prisoners.

Alcatraz Island, best known as the infamous federal penitentiary from 1934 - 63, unfolds a layered history as Native American land, a Civil War - era military fortress, and the site of the Native American occupation by the Indians of All Tribes from 1969 - 71.

Its strange name (its meaning still debated) is appropriate, given The Rock's unique history as a federal penitentiary, but as our guide noted, some of the island's truly unique artifacts are its gardens and the stories behind them.

Visit Alcatraz: Alcatraz Island offers a close - up look at the site of the first lighthouse and US built fort on the West Coast, the infamous federal penitentiary long off - limits to the public, and the 18 month occupation by Indians of All Tribes which saved the tribes.

Alcatraz, best known for the historic federal penitentiary and occupation by the Indians of All Tribes, also has a long tradition of welcoming artists to provoke thought about freedom and incarceration.

For this exhibition, internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei created a new body of work specifically for Alcatraz, responding to the island's layered legacy as a 19th - century military fortress, a notorious federal penitentiary, a site of Native American heritage and protest, and now one of America's most visited national parks.

With the recent closure of high - profile federal penitentiaries in Kingston, Ontario and Laval, Quebec, it is questionable whether new so - called «super-jails» will be able to keep up with the influx of prisoners.

In this case, lawyers for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada were asking the Court to end administrative segregation in federal penitentiaries in Canada.

As noted in a recent case at the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the offender, a long - time drug addict, began his addiction to illicit drugs during his first term of imprisonment at a federal penitentiary.

Section 81 of the Act allows for agreements to transfer care and custody of an Aboriginal offender who would otherwise be held in a federal penitentiary to an Aboriginal community facility.

The report came up with a number of recommendations to help correctional services address factors that would help mitigate the chronic over-representation of Aboriginal people in federal penitentiaries.

This page contains CCLA's key legal materials, previous work, key decisions, and press for our constitutional challenge of the solitary confinement regime in federal penitentiaries.

In January 2015, CCLA along with the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) launched a challenge against the practice of solitary confinement of prisoners in Canada's federal penitentiaries, arguing that such practices can constitute torture, and cruel and unusual treatment, contrary to the Charter.

Sentences of two years or more will be served in a Federal penitentiary.

The only locations exempt from possible designation as a «public work», would be those clearly under federal jurisdiction, pursuant to s. 91 of the Constitution Act, 1867, (U.K.), 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3, such as penitentiaries, banks, beacons, buoys, lighthouses, and «such Classes of Subjects as are expressly excepted in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.»»

In a recent Federal Court ruling, the Honourable Mr. Justice Hughes, himself a member of the aforementioned subcommittee, refused a request from the defendant (Her Majesty the Queen) to strike a Statement of Claim, and instead granted the plaintiffs (5 self - represented prisoners in a federal penitentiary) a 6 - month stay to, among other things, «secure competent legal counsel&Federal Court ruling, the Honourable Mr. Justice Hughes, himself a member of the aforementioned subcommittee, refused a request from the defendant (Her Majesty the Queen) to strike a Statement of Claim, and instead granted the plaintiffs (5 self - represented prisoners in a federal penitentiary) a 6 - month stay to, among other things, «secure competent legal counsel&federal penitentiary) a 6 - month stay to, among other things, «secure competent legal counsel».