Sentences with phrase «prisoners who»

This meant energy was not expended like most prisoners who worked at hard labour with a pick and axe.

During those hard years at the bleak prison, he and his fellow inmates learned physics, Latin and other academia from prisoners who were well educated.

There were 10,596 prisoners who identified as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, a 7 % increase (711 prisoners) from 30 June, 2015 (9,885 prisoners).

The participants of this study were 9 long - term prisoners who satisfied 8 requirements among total 1,283 prisoners in a prison through finality stratified sampling.

However, it is encouraging to note that prisoners who participate in employment, education, or substance abuse treatment programs are more likely to obtain employment and less likely to return to prison.

A Father's Story by Michael Carlin Prisoners who are parents often have difficulty asserting their parental rights.

This program is the first government - funded justice program to specifically target prisoners who have served finite sentences and those who were in custody on remand, and to provide continuity of support from imprisonment through to when a prisoner is released.

In a US survey of male and female prisoners (n = 18185), 88 % of male prisoners who were parents reported that their dependent children were in the care of the child's mother, while only 37 % of mothers reported that their dependent children were in the care of the child's father.

In a very perverse way, prison is a form of secure, affordable housing for many prisoners who have had insecure, unsuitable or unaffordable housing prior to their incarceration.

Prisoners who serve short sentences and are not in prison the census day are not recorded.

The clients of these departments are those prisoners who continue to have obligations towards the criminal justice system, such as parolees and / or offenders who have community - based orders to complete upon their release.

They work with prisoners who are awaiting trial or have been convicted of a crime.

The study found that prisoners who appeared early in the morning were granted parole around 70 per cent of the time, while those who appeared in the afternoon were granted parole less than 10 per cent of the time.

With Ecuador cutting off internet communication and visitors for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher is now being arbitrarily detained in conditions worse than most prisoners who have been found...

When facing the alarming recidivism rate for prisoners who have served their time, many policymakers shrug their shoulders or politely avert their gazes.

It is a common myth that prisoners who are exonerated can sue the state for millions of dollars.

MAIP also is unable to assist prisoners who are currently represented in their criminal case by another attorney or still have access to an appointed attorney.

Members of our Screening Committee read and consider files from prisoners who are seeking our assistance to determine whether they should be sent to a student group for factual investigation.

Our services are free and are reserved for prisoners who can not afford or who are no longer entitled to an attorney.

MAIP is a non-profit organization that provides investigative and legal assistance to prisoners who have claims of innocence.

It's a great resource for the latest court decisions that could affect the lives of inmates or prison administrators and for prisoners who are attempting to do work on their own or others» cases.

However, detention of IPP prisoners who have completed their tariff terms is not unlawful of itself.

Two of the cases concerned prisoners who were referred to as «short tariff lifers», on the ground that they had received their IPPs with minimum terms of no more than five years» detention.

The isolation of prisoners is a standard managerial technique that can be used for a range of legitimate reasons, including: to separate prisoners who have a conflict with one another; to provide temporary protection for prisoners who are vulnerable in the open population; and to isolate those with communicable diseases.

Khadr applied for habeas corpus on the grounds that the ITOA mandated that transferred prisoners who committed their crimes as youths be allowed to serve their sentences in provincial facilities.

Since relocating to Texas, Ms. Rol has volunteered with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and Clemency Project 2014, a working group of lawyers and advocates providing pro bono assistance to federal prisoners who would likely have received a significantly shorter sentence had they been sentenced today.

Prisoners who receive ineffective assistance are likely to be spared, «certainly for many years, and frequently forever,» wrote Chief Judge Danny Boggs of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

(The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies has reported that suicide rates in Canadian prisons are seven times higher than in the general population, and that 22 per cent of prisoners who were found to have committed suicide did so while in segregation.)

In that case, Specter represented prisoners who challenged the delivery of health care in the California prison system.

A friend of mine sent me a screen grab of the PLS website which was advertising for volunteers to help them with their SafeWay program which helps to find homes for prisoners who are trying to re-integrate into the community, usually on parole.

In addition, those prisoners who do end up in solitary confinement will have several new rights, including an allowance of two hours out of their cells (an increase from the one hour they were previously afforded).

This «Question and Answer» booklet is for prisoners who identify as First Nations, Inuit and Métis, and who are imprisoned in a federal prison or healing lodge run by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).

Case Location — We take cases only from prisoners who were convicted in state and federal courts in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.

Other inmates at the facility say that the hunger striker (Harley Guindon of Oshawa) is the last of approximately thirty prisoners who stopped eating last week to protest what they say are unsanitary conditions and poor medical treatment at the facility.

Although the concept of a «last meal» for death row prisoners who are about to be executed is under attack for being wasteful and unnecessary in places such as Texas and Florida, the practice still seems to be quite common in most jurisdictions.

Losey begins with the allegory of Plato's Cave, the story of prisoners who have been held captive in a cave all of their lives.

By casting the net wide enough to capture 83 prisoners who presumably were just minding their own business training for the upcoming Spring prison rodeo (I have been to the October version, and, think what you will about the concept, I must say Warden Cain puts on a hell of a show), the state seeks to have the court «formally declare, once and for all» that the lethal injection procedure is not subject to the state APA.

And in January, he received a Creative Capital award that will allow him to extend The Jerome Project to include interviews with black prisoners who share his father's name, along with a cinematic collage exploring their narratives.

The parable describes a group of prisoners who live chained in a cave facing a blank wall.

Cell (2017) alludes to first - hand accounts of prisoners who experienced solitary confinement in Saydnaya, where, in tiny rooms inhabited by up to 15 detainees, they must stand, blindfolded, forced into perpetual darkness.

His sculptures themselves take on aspects of capitalism's inequities; they tend to be found or purchased objects, such as desks made by prisoners who are paid slave wages by state governments.

After an emergency evacuation of a deep space prison ship, the player is stranded in an unknown galaxy full of escaped prisoners who grow stronger with every passing moment.

Where Brothers felt like a fable come to life, A Way Out tells a decidedly more grounded story about a pair of prisoners who decide to bust out.

Others will attack you as normal, but may head off into side rooms to steal gold, chickens, or even to free prisoners who in turn join the raiding party making it even more dangerous.

Well now it appears housing is getting downgraded for certain Saudi prisoners who don't happen to be princes or billionaires.

Situated in Kundasang, approximately ten kilometres east of the Kinabalu National Park headquarters, the Kundasang Memorial was built in remembrance of the prisoners who died during the infamous Sandakan Death Marches in 1944.

Fifteen minutes after we entered Five, we walked into Six next door, where prisoners who followed orders were kept.

It force - fed prisoners who dropped below a certain weight.

Recidivism rates for prisoners who have participated in the dog training program are far below the national average.

The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.