Sentences with phrase «open prison»

For instance, we could allow voting rights for prisoners in open prisons, namely those convicted of relatively minor crimes, and offenders who are transferred from a secure environment.

«[I] f the dictator of a third world nation threw open its prison doors and granted voting rights to the criminals right before a re-election, we all would be appalled,» he said in a statement.

Justice secretary Jack Straw is reportedly considering giving up his power to block the transfer of long - term offenders into open prisons in preparation for their release.

«If the dictator of a third world nation threw open its prison doors and granted voting rights to the criminals right before a reelection, we all would be appalled,» Molinaro wrote on Twitter.

Should he — and how should he — open the prisons where the hungry starve, where tyrants rule the nations of the world, where disease and accidents knock the young from their temple perches to the rocks below?

But here in Coventry forgiveness strikes me more along the lines of a key, given to us by God to open a prison cell locked from inside.

The wind of the Spirit blew open prison doors.

«In the last week we have learnt that 85 foreign criminals who've committed serious crimes are still at large; that 700 people escaped from open prisons last year; and that illegal immigrants are allowed to clean the office of the department responsible for removing them,» he told MPs.

But he insisted the move would not be repeated in any other open prisons, as there was no evidence that a similar trend of foreign prisoners absconding existed anywhere else.

As David is subjected to peculiar check - in rituals (registration of his sexual orientation and confiscation of his personal belongings), it becomes clear that this is no ordinary Holiday Inn but a severely administered open prison.

He turns a large area of Gotham City's downtown slums into a large open prison called Arkham City, closing the other asylums down claiming they are no longer suitable for containing the colourful array of sickos and psychopaths Gotham has to offer.

This freedom which is Christ and which he gives is appropriated by the man who obeys the call to this freedom in faith and through the baptism which is its expression, submitting himself to the event that opens the prison of the world; namely the incarnation, death and resurrection of the Son.

We don't really know what these chemicals are, but in open prisons, where use is very high, the periodic arrival of ambulances to take prisoners having fits into observation have become so common that inmates have dubbed them «Mambulances».

It is the Bible, and the Sabbath, and the preaching of the gospel, and the schools, and the virtue, and the enterprise, and the equality which Christianity creates which dispel the darkness and open the prison door, and knock off the chains, and break off the yoke, and take off the burdens, which have in all nations and ages been the lot of persons in your condition.»

It opens prison doors and sets the captives free.

He opens prison doors.

But shadow home secretary David Davis warned tonight: «Far from getting a grip since John Reid took over, the Home Office has been marked by murderers walking out of open prisons and suspected terrorists escaping from control orders.

In these cases, they can only progress to an open prison if the Parole Board deems them safe.

You make greater use of open prisons and community sentencing.

Foreign prisoners held at an open prison are being moved to a more secure place after a number of them walked off, it has emerged.

Because the average stay in an open prison is about six months, in practice few prisoners would actually vote while incarcerated; it must be remembered that as soon as they are released, offenders are immediately entitled to vote.

The head of the prison service, Phil Wheatley, has said he does not know how many inmates are missing from Britain's open prisons.

«However, it seems extraordinary that prisoners awaiting deportation, or who are likely to be deported, should be held in an open prison at all when they have little incentive to remain in custody.

As well as Operation Safeguard, Mr Reid has ordered two women's prisons to be converted into men's prisons and the transfer of some prisoners to open prisons.

I believe we should privatise the open prisons, to make available extra money to build state of the art medium and high security prisons in our first term.

Jeffrey Archer has published three volumes of his Prison Diary; Volume I, Hell, a searing account of his first three weeks in the high security prison, HMP Belmarsh; Volume II, Purgatory, set in HMP Wayland, a C category prison; and the third and final volume, Heaven, about his final transfer to an open prison.

An «open prison» where inmates work at a farm instead of being locked up behind bars, it was established by the Americans in 1904.

More than that though, the ingenious decision to turn a slice of Gotham City into an open prison allowed Rocksteady to have their cake and eat it — a place filled with prisoners to beat up within set walls and yet still be a free - roaming city.

The Parole Board has the power to recommend transfer to an open prison, but the final say remains with Straw or one of his ministers.