Sentences with phrase «person detained»

In recent years, the number of people detained in pretrial custody in Canada has expanded significantly.

There was no consideration by the Supreme Court to the issues of timely trials for persons detained in custody or kids charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Correctional Officers work in prisons and supervise people detained for legal reasons.

A spokeswoman said his office would assist attorneys who represent people detained at airports and would connect those who needed legal help with pro-bono lawyers at organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, which successfully stayed deportations of anyone detained pursuant to the order.

Not all police forces film people using the washroom, he says, adding: «I don't know how widespread the practice is, but certainly there's a spate of cases that have identified real privacy concerns of people detained by police.»

An offer of compensation amounts to an admission that there will be a number of innocent persons detained under the proposed powers.

«The court has indicated not surprisingly that it isn't possible in the UK to keep people detained without trial forever.

No amount of additional scrutiny by the courts and Parliament can hope to prevent the injustice of an innocent person detained without charge for over a month.»

(c) ensure persons detained who may have a special educational need are brought to the attention of their home local authority; and

At the end of the month, it exchanges that for US dollars and donates to the Bronx Freedom Fund to post bail for low - income people detained in New York.

China Aid's documented Christian human rights violations also doubled last year and the number of people detained reached 3,700.

«It adds no due process and does not begin to address the serious questions raised by the phone surveillance of tens of thousands of people detained on unaffordable bail,» Chausow wrote in an email to WNYC.

The report, entitled «Improving alternative prison», found that 40 per cent of young people detained in youth offender institutes had not been to school since they were 14 years old.

The plans are part of a wider package of reforms that would tear up the Mental Health Act and replace it with new legislation aimed largely at reducing the number of vulnerable people detained in prison cells.

Among the many people detained at Santa Anita were two cartoonists for Disney Studios who held daily art lessons for children.

«Most people detained under the Immigration Act powers spend only very short periods in detention.

There was therefore no obligation to ensure that there was an independent investigation into the suicide, or death resulting from self - harm, of a mentally ill person detained under Section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

He brought a challenge, along with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, against a guide for intelligence officers and service personnel when they deal with people detained by overseas security and intelligence services.

The Court in Hamdan I also found that the CSRTs violated Common Article 3 of the Third Geneva Convention, which states that signatories must provide minimum provisions to persons detained outside the combat, including prohibitions on passing judgement without judicial guarantees.

People with Disabilities Australia (PWDA) estimate that there are at least 100 people detained across Australia without conviction in prisons and psychiatric units under mental impairment legislation; and that at least 50 people from this group would be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

People detained for crossing the border illegally are housed inside the McAllen Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas.

Join us to explore what Rikers means for the more than 7,500 people detained at Rikers Island on any given day.

So why are the views of people detained under the Mental Health Act not even being considered a third of the time?

BBC TV Panorama in early September 2017 exposed the violence and mistreatment of people detained in G4S's other Gatwick centre, Brook House.

«One of the 10 people detained in today's operation is the ex-president of the republic, Alvaro Colom,» Juan Francisco Sandoval, chief anti-corruption officer at the public prosecutor's office, said on local radio.

It is eroding data protection, having people detained for sleeping rough, and meaning that victims of crimes are being arrested.

But over half the people detained (52 %) in the quarter ending June 30th 2017 were released back into the community.

Requests to visit the centres must be carefully considered and planned to preserve the privacy and dignity of the people detained there.»

This included presidential pardons, dated February 19, 2018, for 45 of the 92 persons detained in the country's prisons as a result of their involvement in the demonstrations.

For its part, the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH) said it had identified 50 people detained and that «the number of arrests continues to rise» and had passed 70 across the whole province.

Also at noon, NYC Council Members Daniel Dromm and Andy King, the Jails Action Coalition and other groups hold rally to push for changes in treatment of people detained and incarcerated on Riker's Island, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Under the program, those two officers would be able to «interrogate any person detained... who the officer believes is an alien about his or her right to be in the United States.

Sheriff's Sgt. Aura Sierra could not immediately provide more information about the person detained Friday morning said there has been no confirmation of a shooting.

The people detained — without handcuffs — were only issued citations and ticketed, not arrested.

In some jurisdictions, persons detained under the doctrine of Terry must identify themselves to police upon request.

The name derives from Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that police may briefly detain a person whom they reasonably suspect is involved in criminal activity; the Court also held that police may do a limited search of the suspect's outer garments for weapons if they have a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the person detained may be «armed and dangerous».

«There is, therefore, no question that a prisoner forfeits his Convention rights merely because of his status as a person detained following conviction... nor is there any place under the Convention system, where tolerance and broadmindedness are the acknowledged hallmarks of democratic society, for automatic disenfranchisement based purely on what might offend public opinion.»

To convince a judge to sign an Order releasing a person from detox lock - up before the 72 - hour statutory hold expires generally requires the vital signs of the person detained to be adequate to remove any medical emergency.

In the United States, so - called Miranda rights are named after the US Supreme Court decision of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 US 436 (1966) that determined that a person detained by law enforcement and interrogated must be made aware of the right to remain silent, the right to consult with an attorney and have the attorney present during questioning, and the right to have an attorney appointed if they can't afford one... [more]

(5) The interference with individual liberty resulting from the police conduct was substantial in terms of the number of persons detained, the number of times individuals were detained and the length of the detentions; and

The authority for Investigative Detention also extends to searching the person detained for weapons.

The factual framework in Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene v. Ontario, 2010 ONCA 197 was this: a person detained at the Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene (MHCP) as a person found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder had a disposition hearing before the Ontario Review Board (which... [more]