Sentences with phrase «person in custody»

Such advice usually informs an Indigenous person in custody of their right to silence.

The interim guidelines require guards to ask trans people in custody to identify their own gender and about their preference to be searched by male or female guards.

We understood that the right way to halt the unrestrained rise in crime we saw in the 1980s and early 1990s and to cut the number of young people in custody was to stop them turning to crime in the first place.

The LSRS crisis telephone for people in custody, in crisis, in a shelter or in a remote community without internet access is 416-947-5255 or toll - free 1-855-947-5255, Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm.

A Brooklyn City Councilman, Mark Treyger, is looking to make it illegal for police officers to have sex with people in their custody in the wake of an investigation into two Coney Island detectives accused of raping a teenager.

The need for specialised care for Aboriginal people in custody becomes even clearer, confirming the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Indigenous Deaths in Custody; that individual care plans need to be devised for Indigenous detainees.

How many health ministers have ever chosen to give a media interview explicitly addressing concerns about the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody a...

Britain's top anti-terrorism officer, Mark Rowley, said police had nine people in custody after the attack on Wednesday which killed five people including the assailant.

Schneiderman said the Fourth Amendment prevents local agencies from holding people in custody for more than 48 hours without charging them with a crime.

Based on that fact and that he «did not make any threats of harm to him or others,» the report said, Barela advised that it was unnecessary to invoke a Florida law allowing police to put a mentally ill person in custody.

The death of Sandra Bland has won press attention in the UK, but we continue to ignore the deaths of black people in custody here

«This announcement is an important step in our plan to close Rikers Island and create more community - based facilities to better serve people in custody and our hard - working correctional staff,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.

Section 515 sets out that detaining an accused person in custody is only permitted on one or more of the following grounds:

She has acted for families, public interest groups and Ontario's Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth at inquests relating to deaths of vulnerable people in custody, youth detention and child welfare.

A limitation noted in the introduction is that the Casebook does not cover hate crimes or conditions in detention of LGBT people in custody.

Sadly, we are in a situation where there are now more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody today, than there were twenty years ago.

The charity also receives funding from the Legal Services Commission, as it holds Legal Aid contracts in order to perform its work with young people in custody.

The court didn't change her sentence, but issued groundbreaking orders to judges in Canada that they had to take an Aboriginal offender's past into account not only for sentencing, but to also look for alternatives to custodial sentences to address the critical over-representation of Aboriginal people in custody.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says it's time New York made it illegal for police officers to have sex with people in their custody.

How many health ministers have ever chosen to give a media interview explicitly addressing concerns about the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody and prisons?

Right now criminal courts in Ontario conduct video appearances for persons in custody.

Accordingly, if the service is abolished in practice by funding cuts but remains on the statute books — as it almost certainly will — the NSW government will be faced with the absurd but very real proposition that most confessional evidence from Indigenous people in custody will be rendered inadmissible because police can not contact an Aboriginal Legal Service representative.

Waterloo High School was forced to close Wednesday because of a threat the previous day for which police had one person in custody.

We will contin ue to press the Prisons Minister on the matter of deaths of young people in custody and will work with the government and any other agencies to do what we can to ensure the secure estate is safe for detainees.

Authorities said they had a person in custody — identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17 — after the shooting and that explosive devices were located at the school and off campus.

Erie County DA John Flynn and Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda say 31 - year - old Officer Joseph Hassett attacked a person in his custody at Buffalo Police.

The measure would cut off state funding for cities where officials have enacted policies prohibiting them from sharing information about the immigration status of people in custody.

The Howard League legal team, which works with children and young people in custody, represented a 22 - year - old young man with a learning disability, a history of childhood sexual abuse and self - harm, formerly in care, who attempted suicide serving an IPP sentence.

With its new strategy to put education at the heart of rehabilitating young people in custody, the government must also recognise how important a culture of learning is for adults.

The number of young people in custody is reaching crisis point and government must take urgent action to avoid a «meltdown», the Youth Justice Board has warned.

Over the next five years, the city hopes to reduce the jail population to 7,000 — but ultimately they'll need fewer than 5,000 people in custody to begin a plan to close Rikers for good.

On any given day, there are 9,400 people in custody, with the majority on Rikers Island.

The pursuit started around 4:30 a.m. Erie County Sheriff's Deputies have taken one person in custody,...

Braunstein told Observer his office has not done research on why correction officers and parole officers were included in the non-consent law, but that they discovered that cops having sex with people in their custody was not a crime and sought to close the loophole.

Current law bars sex between correctional officers and inmates, but it doesn't apply to police and people in their custody.

On Sunday, the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, who is helping refugees find legal aid, requested a list of people in custody and pressed the Department of Homeland Security to comply with the stay.

It is the requirement for anyone (whether a police department, state security department, or whatever) holding a person in custody to produce (literally) the body of the person before a court.

He has represented the Youth Justice Board in a number highly sensitive inquests concerning the deaths of young people in custody.

«There are also a lot of unknowns in terms of people in custody,» Lacy adds.

The judge ruled in his favour and, on the secretary of state's appeal, the Court of Appeal held that the simple fact of a death or serious injury of a person in custody gave rise to an obligation on the state to conduct an enhanced investigation, by a person independent of those implicated in the facts.

An assault on a person in custody while handcuffed to a bench to try to persuade him to do something that he has no obligation to do is indeed a grievous breach of the person's rights under s. 7 of the Charter.

The provision allows for enhanced credit if the circumstances allow it «unless the reason for detaining the person in custody was stated in the record.»

(3.1) Despite subsection (3), if the circumstances justify it, the maximum is one and one - half days for each day spent in custody unless the reason for detaining the person in custody was stated in the record under subsection 515 (9.1) or the person was detained in custody under subsection 524 (4) or (8).

The case reflects a «spate» of cases dealing with the privacy of people in custody, according to the appellant's new counsel.

There are numerous procedural requirements on statements obtained by the police, such as the famous case of Miranda v. Arizona which requires police to inform a person in custody of their relevant rights.