Sentences with phrase «of home detention»

«It cuts both ways,» she said before sentencing Rizzi to 15 months in prison, three years supervised release and four months of home detention.

Not exact matches

The widow of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo said that after eight years of house arrest she is ready to «die at home» in protest of her continuing detention by Chinese authorities, a report said Wednesday.

In Jarrod's home country, immigration and asylum has long been a source of political debate, and the pastor has made a name for himself by opposing the draconian detention policies of the Australian government.

Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

This year he, too, will spend Christmas away from home, sampling Dutch cuisine in the detention cells of the International Criminal Tribunal for the

The diplomats — officials in charge of New York consulates separate from United Nations missions — say they are hard pressed to explain to their governments and the news media back home why scores of people remain in detention, usually on minor immigration charges, at a time when the United States seeks the support of public opinion abroad for its war on terrorism.

We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.

It insists that detention centre doctors alert the Home Office of any detainee who they think might be a victim of torture.

Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules bars the Home Office from detaining anyone who has been tortured.

In September 2009, Home Office Director of Criminality and Detention at the UK Border Agency and former Assistant Commissioner at the Met, Dave Wood, was called before the Home Affairs Committee.

We call on the Home Office to work with ourselves and other concerned organisations to fulfil Parliament's demand for strong measures to reduce detention of torture survivors and other vulnerable people in line with the Shaw Review which Theresa May ordered as Home Secretary.

An eight - month investigation by parliamentarians warned of a total breakdown of safeguards in the system, with rape victims and people with mental health problems being locked up indefinitely in detention centres despite Home Office assurances.

As they Home Office announces a review of detention centres, we reveal the horror behind the barbed - wire walls

2016's Shaw Review of detention conditions, commissioned by Theresa May when she was home secretary and to which we submitted detailed evidence, echoed many of our concerns and called for a dramatic reduction in the use of detention.

Since 2012, Bernard Mahoney has worked part - time as a detention home aide for Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Facility, a division of the county probation dedetention home aide for Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Facility, a division of the county probation deDetention Facility, a division of the county probation department.

Taken from their homes in the middle of the night, or in the very early hours of the morning, when immigration enforcement knows they'll be at home, and bundled into a van, then to a detention centre, and then on a plane to a country they never knew.

Measures that have been challenged include the suspension of benefits for «late claim» asylum seekers, the Home Secretary's power to set «tariffs» on sentences and the detention of terrorist suspects without charge.

It sent multiple vans full of immigration officers to people's homes in dawn raids, before separating the husbands from the wives and sending them to detention centres.

In a subsequent statement, the Home Office said it would «always demand the highest standards from those we entrust with the safety and welfare of those in detention».

The Commons home affairs committee will look at the strength of the arguments put forward by the government and police to justify extending the detention period from its current limit of two weeks.

The Home Office must be able to show that detention is being used as a last resort to facilitate someone's removal from the UK, although in the mass detention system which has gradually evolved that requirement is becoming more of a technicality.

Welcoming the report, home secretary Jacqui Smith said: «I welcome the committee's view that the current pre-charge detention limit may prove inadequate in future and its recognition of the need to develop proposals to extend it beyond 28 days.

So we should welcome the Home Office's announcement of a review into how vulnerable people are treated in Britain's detention centres.

His comments are revealed in an email to Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee which has been hearing evidence on the case for extending detention without charge.

Torture survivors remained in detention, despite clear evidence of their vulnerability and even though the Home Office has specific guidelines against this practice.

«We hope the Home Office will act quickly in the wake of yet another tragic death to drastically reduce the use of immigration detention, as the most recent review as well as a recent cross-party inquiry have recommended.»

The Home Office is backtracking over comments made on Monday in the House of Commons by the immigration minister Damian Green which put the government's commitment to end child detention in doubt.

In their study into the electronic tagging of adult offenders, the MPs also reveal that 562 assaults were committed by those on home detention curfews - despite the fact that sexual and violent offenders are prohibited from the scheme.

Labour stepped up its attack on the Home Office over the nine - hour detention of David Miranda today, as the international row escalated.

Home secretary confirmed the long - awaited review had already begun, and said it would look at six areas: the use of control orders, stop and search powers in section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and the use of terrorism legislation in relation to photography, the detention of terrorist suspects before charge, extending the use of deportations, measures to deal with organisations that promote hatred or violence, and the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa) by local authorities.

Peter Clarke said he was concerned to find during an official inspection of the privately run detention centre in Bedfordshire that in two cases, the Home Office had refused, without explanation, to accept that rape came within the legal definition of torture.

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In addition, offenders serving sentences of between three months and four years, with certain exceptions for violent and sexual offenders, may also be eligible for release on a home detention curfew (HDC).

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke today re-emphasised his determination to introduce control orders for terror suspects before the current regime of indefinite detention runs out next month.

The Home Office is to investigate claims of racism in a asylum detention centre after an undercover BBC documentary.

The issue of pre-charge detention became a symbolic battle between civil liberties activists and the Home Office under Labour, with many observers noting that the government had effectively scrapped habeas corpus, considered by many constitutional historians to be the foundation of a free society.

Grant Shapps, the MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, claims this rise is the result of inappropriate prisoners being released early under the Home Detention Curfew (HDC) scheme, in response to a rising prison population.

Nick Clegg stood up for the Liberal Democrats and homed in on the same point as Mr Cameron - how would the Commons be able to scrutinise the detention when discussing it would revealed confidential security information and prejudice a future trial - if, of course, there was one.

They also suggested an alternate sentence of 18 months — with half to be served in prison and the remainder in home detention, «which would effectuate the same purposes in a different manner.»

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At the same time as he was diverting offenders from upstate juvenile detention facilities, Cuomo also closed down all of the New York City — based OCFS facilities, undermining any claim that the program was really about moving juveniles closer to their homes.

But a later statement from the Home Office said: «The new government has been clear in its commitment to end the detention of children and this includes those held in the family wing at Yarl's Wood.

But the Home Office confirmed to Channel 4 News: «The new government has been clear in its commitment to end the detention of children.

He continued in the prominent job of shadow home secretary and waged war against Labour's plans for 42 - day detention without charge and ID cards.

The DG affair tells the Conservative party one thing: It is OK for a future Conservative Home Secretary to order the investigation of the entire Cabinet at the time of the decision to got to war with Iraq and Campbell, confiscation all their papers, and potential arrest and detention under anti-terrorsit powers for up to 28 days on a potential charge of conspiracy to kill unspecified Iraqis.

This would be handed to the Commons home affairs committee and would include information about any detentions or deportations, the setting of deportation targets, and how the policies were seen as affecting people's lives.

Mixed reactions on Friday greeted a directive by the Indigenous People of Biafra for sons and daughters of Igbo origin around the world to sit at home in protest of the continued detention of the leader of the movement, Nnamdi Kanu, and other pro-Biafra agitators.

The Administration for Children's Services has scheduled four of five community hearings on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's «Close to Home Initiative» that would take New York City's juvenile delinquents out of the state detention system and allow the city to provide them with the placements they think are best for them and near their homes.

Following this burst of senseless violence we are introduced to Blocker in the middle of rounding up a family of escaped Cheyenne prisoners trying to make their way back home from a detention center in New Mexico at which the Captain is stationed.