Sentences with phrase «of prison capacity»

Warren Young pointed out that New Zealand had adopted precisely the opposite approach: «Our guidelines are not being set on the basis of some predetermined level of prison capacity.»

Not exact matches

This case concluded that sentencing a juvenile to life in prison was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban of cruel and unusual punishment, saying children had «diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change.»

Sounds like a worthwhile read and I tend to agree with the assertions from the book about the capacity to do evil coming from the facelessness of structure — and personally would include any structure in that — including churches, prisons, companies, and gov» ts.

Owerri prison was built in 1905 with an intake capacity of 540 inmates but as at the time of the incident the prison had a population of 2,260 prisoners.

While it could indeed be «a potentially epoch - making moment it could be for Gaddafi to stand trial at the International Criminal Court,» Bali and Abu Rish argue that: «The prospect of retirement in a prison cell in the Hague may factor into al - Qaddafi's incentives to make good on his threats to fight to the last of his capacities, visiting untold atrocities on Libyan civilians in the process.

While our minimum - and medium - security prisons have seen a reduction in inmates, our maximum - security prisons, which hold the most dangerous and hardened criminals, remain at 122 % of capacity that they were designed to hold.

«With our maximum - security prisons at 122 percent capacity and our overall prison population at 100 %, protecting the safety of inmates, corrections officers and the public at large means that tax dollars must be spent efficiently, and any reforms must address the extremely dangerous overcrowding and «double bunking» conditions at our medium - and maximum - security prisons.»

Lord Falconer, who will lead the ministry, will immediately be faced with an emerging prison crisis, after the prison population reached 80,674 this week - 400 short of capacity.

According to the Ministry of Justice, the prison population had not grown as fast as previously projected, with a prison population in January 2011 of 82,991 and a useable operational capacity of 87,936.

As prisons are expensive and take a long time to build, the result of a lack of capacity has been overcrowding, which is when prisons have to house more inmates than they are designed for.

The Minister told the governor that the Stakeholders Panel on Prison Decongestion recommended Rivers as one of the states from the six geopolitical zones for the construction of a 3000 capacity Prison.

The Conservatives criticised Labour for failing to build enough prison places and promised to stop the early release of criminals and to increase prison capacity as necessary.

This is the one area of policy where, curiously, I see the Cameroons veering away from the electorate, taking huge risks on prison capacity, sentencing policy and police numbers.

«Like many people who work in prisons, you quickly realize how much brilliance is being wasted and the enormous intellectual capacity of the people who are spending the rest of their lives in prison,» Smith says.

With more than 61,000 inmates in the Oklahoma prison system, we have the second highest incarceration rate in the country; are prisons are at 119 % + capacity; and 77 % of Oklahomans personally know someone who has been sent to a correctional facility.

Szymczyk's Documenta has been constructed according to the same idea that motivated, for example, Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale: to create an exhibition, one with numerous sites for viewing the art, that «blurs the line between professional artists and amateurs, insiders and outsiders, reuniting artworks with other forms of figurative expression — both to release art from the prison of its supposed autonomy, and to remind us of its capacity to express a vision of the world.»

The government ignores the fact that judges and magistrates care little about prison overcrowding and resent having to make the sentence fit around the capacity of the prison estate.

In addition to the official IAEG global indicators — measuring the proportion of victims of violence that report their victimization to the police as well as unsentenced detainees as a proportion of the overall prison population — WJP's Index scores provide a holistic picture of the accessibility, affordability, impartiality, and effectiveness of civil justice systems, and of the capacity of criminal justice systems to investigate and adjudicate criminal offenses through an impartial system that protects the rights of victims and the accused.

On issues such as the content of the record on judicial review applications, the extent to which administrative decision - makers can participate in judicial reviews of their decisions, superior court review of federal prison decisions and tribunals» capacity to reconsider their decisions, Canadian courts have recently come under pressure to update the procedural law to bring it into line with the substantive law.

Rita is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 + years of working in several capacities of human service ranging from early childhood development, juvenile delinquency, prison re-entry, sexual health and education, individual, group, family counseling, training facilitation, substance abuse and HIV.

There is little alternative for Aboriginal people leaving prison other than to return to these communities that are already drained of social capacity to meet their multiple needs.

These programs can be delivered for only a small fraction of the cost of incarcerating offenders in juvenile or adult prisons; the best programs have demonstrated the capacity to reduce crime rates.