Sentences with phrase «penal system»

This fact based story from the mid 50s American penal system is a sobering and dramatic reminder of how many states treated mentally ill patients, criminal or otherwise

We are forced to conclude that even today, with our modern penal systems, safety is still an issue.

According to China Aid, Zhang and Liu are being held for six months in a so - called «black jail,» one of several detention facilities outside the established penal system.

Essentially by preventing Evans a return to football it could be seen as a complete trashing of the British penal system's ability to rehabilitate and better.

I read of the crisis in the US penal system arising from the difficulty of obtaining supplies for lethal injections.

When it comes to the rule of law, human rights - sensitive good governance initiatives reform legislation and assist institutions ranging from penal systems to courts and parliaments to better implement that legislation.

But unlike other Russian oligarchs, Khodorkovsky now enjoys an exceptional moral authority for surviving years in Russia's dismal penal system and waging legal battles in a corrupt and troubled justice system.

Dobby you got 4.5 years for your crimes and because of the UK's super-liberal penal system you've been telling people you'll be out next Feb....

Causing harm to another individual is in clear violation of this standard and our civil penal system is in place to attempt to mitigate the damage caused by those who choose not to adhere to this standard.

Just like any other third world country: NO EDUCATION; NO EMPLOYMENT; NO FUTURE aside from a robust penal system engaged in martial law.

I remember when American Indians in various penal systems began suing for the right to wear their hair long as an established religious observation and they won.

Hence, the more precisely one calculated the movements of the heavenly world, the more efficient the cosmic penal system appeared.

Although judicial and penal systems vary widely in Europe, the more objective forensic science techniques are rapidly becoming harmonized so that sometimes even the same specialized apparatus is used throughout the forensic community (e.g., refractive index measurements of glass).

Well, it seems «Reach Me» is actually all the rage within the California penal system, where it's also been embraced by Colette (Kyra Sedgwick), who's about to be paroled from an arson conviction (she burned down her own house as some kind of revenge on her abusive / unfaithful husband).

This was the first studio feature for director Stuart Rosenberg, and, although he would go on to make a dozen more (including Brubaker, another well - received drama set within the Southern penal system), he was no Arthur Penn or Mike Nichols — most of his workmanlike features would not touch the success or artistry of his debut.

A dark, disturbing motion picture that will have you questioning whether or not penal systems truly make for better citizens or if they merely turn men into monsters and madmen.

Herman's chilling autobiography, featuring an American caught in the labyrinthine depths of the malevolent Communist penal system, is narrated by Hurt with heart - gripping intensity.

Cork City Gaol Housed in the imposing former prison building, an audio tour relays the harshness of the 19th century penal system.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: «DANNY LYON: MESSAGE TO THE FUTURE» (through Sept. 25) This engrossing exhibition presents about 175 pictures by a photographer who became famous in the 1960s and early»70s for images of civil rights strife in the American South; a Chicago motorcycle gang; and prisoners in the Texas penal system.

The expertise of the professional bureaucracy — civil servants, policy advisers, penal system officials, prosecutors — is better respected and more influential.

«A Ministry of Justice could concentrate on reducing crime and running an effective penal system without being diverted by constant crises in security and immigration policy.

The author examines drugs, race and the American penal system.

Often featuring quiet men who commit savage acts while drifting through their respective worlds, his films are as hyper - violent as they are hyper - stylish — from the Viking - era brutality of Valhalla Rising to Bronson's dark corners of the modern penal system to the postmodern urban underworlds in Drive and Only God Forgives.

Ten days later, Gu was taken into custody and sent to a black jail, a detention facility which falls outside of the country's established penal system, China Aid reported.

It does not help when the attitude of the British penal system is structured in such a way as to deprive prisoners of some of the basic rights of a citizen.

Unlike the adult penal system.

And leaving aside the penal system you probably have pre-conceived ideas of what it would be like to sit and talk with somebody who has committed armed robbery, been in a gang or even committed a violent crime.

Some museums have pushed a mission to educate the public about the evolution of the penal system, but there has been criticism that, depending on the institution, the «history» is sanitized, leaving out abuse of prisoners and other unsavory aspects of the criminal justice system.

It will shred every perception you have about convicted felons and the penal system in the US.

As a journalist, it's nearly impossible to get an unconstrained look inside our penal system.

''... Our values are cultural...» Yeah, like the psychobabble from the Frankfurt School a la Freud whereby prisoners in the penal system get their rehab from Bubba and the psychopaths magically morph into Christians.

Trying to twist it to equate a «slave of the state» as a person going through the penal system for committing a crime and slavery where a single person owns another single person as property is the not the same.

Pope John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae declared that «as a result of steady improvements in the organization of the penal system,» cases in which the execution of the offender would be absolutely necessary «are very rare, if not practically nonexistent.»

But, as John Paul II remarks in Evangelium Vitae, modern improvements in the penal system have made it extremely rare for execution to be the only effective means of defending society against the criminal.

With the Church no longer fulfilling this public ministry, the penal system fills in the gap by shifting its focus from retribution and restitution to rehabilitation.

If «deserving» were the key to punishment (not simply its presupposition), should we not also restore torture to the penal system?

Even when Americans worry (as we should) about capital punishment, those worries rarely spread to concern about the penal system in general.

Review American Indian beliefs in the penal system for examples.

The use of punishment as a deterrent, and the effect of the penal system upon persons and society as a whole, raise issues for moral judgment.

Some people suggest that although capital punishment might once have been necessary for protection, modern improvements in the penal system make it possible to shield the innocent without killing the guilty.

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Forgiveness does not circumvent punishment in the penal system, of course, but it does mean that we are humbled by evil and by the constant reminder that the media and our own hearts bring us that it does exist.

Of course, we often justify the collective violence of the penal system by insisting that keeping offenders off the streets cuts down on crime.

Still, there will always be a basic tension between the goals of the social - services professionals and the primary purpose of the penal system.

We are all called to be Saints and this is not too lofty an expectation if you realize there can be relapses into sin for we have a nature that is directed by our freewill; our free will means we have to make choices and often we make the wrong one [look at our penal system] but that does not mean that we can not ever overcome our desire to sin rather than do good.

Cain's tenure as warden came on the heels of The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994, which made prisoners ineligible for Pell Grants and devastated education within the penal system.