Sentences with phrase «penal systems»

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.

Our submission (on women in prison and reform of justice and penal systems) has been published.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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....

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

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.»

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.

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.

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

Even if we can not know the answer to all of society's ills, even if we can not pretend to know how to solve the problems of crime and drugs and inflation and poverty, we can still proclaim that it is obviously and unquestionably a moral wrong to maintain a penal system based on vengeance instead of rehabilitation; to allow human rights violations to go unchallenged (on either side of the iron curtain); to waste vast quantities of food and resources while others are malnourished and sick and poor; or to allow so many children in our own midst to go through childhood unwanted and unloved and even abused.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Despite their chemical imbalances and their poor impulse control, I predicted three quarters of them were going to live through the penal system, as they glorified and sought to admire and emulate the people and tenets of black culture that were going to put them in prison, destroy their interpersonal relationships, and leave them undesirable in the marketplace.

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.

By contrast, in every branch of the US military and in the US penal system, physical punishment has long been outlawed as it was deemed «cruel and unusual» and a «use of excessive force.»

Unlike the adult penal system.

The last Howard League in - prison investigation, which was granted access by the outgoing Labour government and the coalition, was on veterans in the penal system.

Donna Hylton, who was paroled from Bedford Hills two - and - a-half years ago after spending 27 years in prison for murder, said Cuomo's refusal to grant clemency makes the penal system only about punishment, not rehabilitation.

Add to that the 88 prisoners who killed themselves last year and the Howard League for Penal Reform's claim that Grayling has sent the penal system into «meltdown» seems pretty plausible.

His impressive performance has continued to cover a broad policy spectrum and, even if it does not pay major immediate political dues, will leave Khan well set up to manage and modify the penal system.

Albany scandal could be a wash this fall, what with former Republican leader Dean Skelos also a guest of the federal penal system.

Britain's most senior judge has painted a worrying picture of the penal system, describing prisons as «social dustbins» for problematic residents.

[1] Typically, services that continue despite a shutdown include police, fire fighting, the National Weather Service and its parent agencies, the postal service, armed forces, utilities, air traffic management, and corrections (the penal system).

A new device that can detect a prisoner's vital signs from a wall or ceiling metres away could be used to tackle steep suicide rates in the penal system.

«And they are the frequent fliers of the penal system.»

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

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

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.

Red once (ab) used the penal system to save Butch from his mean drunk of a pa; a few minutes near the end, during Costner and Eastwood's only screentime together, Butch wonders if he knows Red in a moment that speaks not just to Eastwood's archetypal familiarity, but also perhaps to some awareness of the way that all men are tied to the sins of their fathers.

The only place where the movie really falters is in the final minutes, which is a little too nice for the events that precede it, because even though the subject matter may be bleak, «Starred Up» is a truly captivating film about the ineffectiveness of the penal system and hands - down one of the best prison dramas in recent memory.

«I have witnessed childhood friends enter and reenter the penal system, and seen family members handicapped by hopelessness,» Figueroa says «I've made a commitment to work on behalf of these individuals to improve the educational services available to them.

Named the best educational documentary by the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, The War on Kids argues that the U.S. public school system has more in common with a penal system than anything educational.

It cost a heck of a lot less to educate a child then financially support them once they've entered the juvenile and more likely then on their horizon, adult penal system as well.

Most are currently in / out or part of the penal system or on their way.

And, if mutual funds are a «penal system,» smart investors «will do their time in an index fund.»

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

Titled Process Collettivo, the Rio Terà dei Pensieri / Bradford collaboration aims to launch a sustainable longterm program that brings awareness to both the penal system and the success of the social cooperative model.

One - third of the state's parolees settle in the 55 square blocks of Los Angeles known as Skid Row, and State of Incarceration» $» developed collaboratively by LAPD's Skid Row artists and in dialogue with organizers and recent parolees» $» powerfully examines the consequences of California's penal system on individuals, families and communities.