Sentences with phrase «sentenced prisoners»

At risk of sounding heretical, there is no conclusive evidence that most of them have any significant, positive effect on re-offending, be it on determinate or indeterminately sentenced prisoners.

The past president of the Prison Governors» Association said: «The blanket ban on sentenced prisoners» voting is out of step in a modern prison service and runs counter to resettlement work which aims to ensure that prisoners lead a responsible, law - abiding life on release.»

This has resulted in tens of thousands of sentenced prisoners being unlawful denied their right to vote in local, national and European elections.

David Cameron should heed their advice and that of his own minister and allow sentenced prisoners to vote.

The truth is this: reoffending rates have hardly changed for a decade — and indeed those for short sentenced prisoners are unacceptably high, with almost 60 % of those sentenced to less than 12 months returning to crime within a year.

The Sentence has to be carried out by the end of the day and no sentenced prisoners can stay in the prison for longer than two days.

Ex-UVF life sentence prisoner Billy Hutchinson came top in the Court Ward of the city.

Thus in Secretary of State for the Home Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reasons.

«We will cease to treat IPPs like life sentence prisoners, and instead manage them through the closed estate in the same way as determinate sentence prisoners.»

Advice and representation for pre-tariff reviews for life and indeterminate sentence prisoners before the Parole Board;

I am sick of the paternalistic and moralistic lifer system, the begging for release, the cruel and inhuman treatment of indeterminate sentence prisoners, the middle - class judging of people who end up in the system and the endless punishment of traumatised people.

Nothing in the safety valve prevents judges from sentencing prisoners at or above the mandatory minimum even if they are eligible for the safety valve, but simply allows judicial discretion to ensure that prison resources are being used where they can best protect public safety, and not wasted on nonviolent, low - level drug offenders.

R (Bruton) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 1967 (Admin) The first procedural fairness challenge to a decision refusing an indeterminate sentence prisoner early release on compassionate family grounds (instructed by the Government Legal Department)

The Court of Appeal found that a change of the terms under which an already - sentenced prisoner would be eligible for parole requiring him or her to spend more time in prison was, indeed, a form of punishment, and thus a violation of the Charter, which in its view the government failed to justify under s. 1.

As a mandatory life sentence prisoner the respondent could not complain that the burden of establishing that he could safely be re-released rested on him.»

A public consultation on a prisoner's right to vote has been announced by the government following the European Court of Human Rights» ruling in Hirst v United Kingdom in which a life sentence prisoner successfully challenged the UK's current arrangements.

John Howard Association of Illinois (Chicago, IL) 2008 — 2009 Attorney (Pro-Bono) • Volunteered to provide representation to an indeterminately sentenced prisoner who had previously been denied parole on twenty - three (23) separate occasions • Advised client of rights and legal strategies while successfully persuading parole board to grant parole

Pro Bono Legal Work JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Attorney, 2008 - 2009 • Volunteered to represent an indeterminately sentenced prisoner who had previously been denied parole twenty - three times.

Not exact matches

He is the only federal prisoner to ever receive a death sentence.

If ADX is known as the highest security prison for prisoners not sentenced to death, Terre Haute's death row is «the most maximum security of maximum security,» Dunham said.

If the sentence is carried out, he would join a group of just three federal prisoners executed since 1988, when capital punishment by the U.S. government was reinstated.

Tsarnaev's death sentence, once confirmed at the hearing, would make him one of just 59 prisoners condemned to execution in U.S. federal courts, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Amid a hail of gunfire the helicopter was able to take off from the prison after picking up three prisoners serving decades - long sentences for various violent crimes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.

California, leading the Gadarene rush over the cliff as usual, now provides state - funded «sex - reassignment surgery» to prisoners; the first recipient of this «benefit» was Shiloh Heavenly Quine, a first - degree murderer / kidnapper serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.

«We look at a whole range of evidence, both what happened in the original offences, the judge's sentencing remarks, the programmes or work a prisoner has done, reports from people who know the prisoner well.

So anyone who sits on jury and condemns someone to death, the judge that imposes the sentence, the guards working in the jail and anyone else who is involved in executing prisoners is going to hell?

Today's ruling decided that Miller v. Alabama can be applied retroactively to minors who had already been sentenced to life in prison in 2012, now giving prisoners the chance to negotiate shorter sentences or even parole.

On Christmas Day, Indonesia reduced the sentences of over 9,000 Christian prisoners.

The prevalent indeterminate sentence (one to ten years, two to 20 years, etc.) once was considered a liberal reform that would allow well - adjusted prisoners time off for good behavior.

The jews were given a choice of who they wanted to save because it was a high holy day when Jesus was sentenced and the tradition was to free a prisoner on that day.

Though the country recently released thousands of prisoners on humanitarian grounds ahead of Benedict's arrival, Gross, who is serving a 15 - year sentence, was not among them, despite reports of his worsening health.

In the wake of the controversy over Love Wins, someone recently suggested to me that perhaps hell is not eternal after all and that those sent there might one day complete their sentences, much as a prisoner serves for a certain period and is then released.

The Prison Reform and Redemption Act of 2017, also known as H.R. 3356, gives eligible prisoners time credits and eligibility to complete their sentences under community supervision if they complete those programs.

It has been a long time since a «life sentence» meant that the prisoner would stay in prison for the rest of his natural life.

Most prisoners are facing prison sentences far exceeding the nature of the crime.

profit was $ 53.9 million, since corporate prisons make their profits based on the daily number of prisoners, longer sentences are the strategy.

Zhang had been sentenced to six months of residential surveillance at a «black jail,» where prisoners are held incommunicado at a secret location.

Most prisoners would greatly benefit from structured rehabilitation services to set them on the right path because most prisoners are facing prison sentences far exceeding the nature of the crime.

From the minute the prisoners entered the gates, a death sentence awaited them.

The memo, which was circulated to prison governors on November 26th, reads: «The criminal casework directorate (CCD) of the Border and Immigration Agency have confirmed to us that as a rule they have no interest in pursuing foreign national prisoners serving sentences of less than 12 months for deportation unless they have a court recommendation for deportation, are already subject to deportation proceedings, or (in the case of non-EEA nationals) were sentenced to less than 12 months but where the current sentence plus one or two previous sentences within the last five years (taking account of the most significant sentences during the period) total 12 months or more.»

I can see the government point of view though (and that of Stuart above) in that it will exclude prisoners with long sentences - the murderers etc..

My own opininon regarding allowing prisoners with sentences of less than four years the right to vote is that it is actually a fudge.

The former prime minister Tony Blair said last year he would change the law so that most foreign prisoners were deported immediately after they completed their sentence.

They calculate that, with the majority of prisoners sentenced to less than 12 months, at least 4,000 foreign criminals will evade deportation, including those convicted of drug dealing, benefit fraud, theft and burglary.

The Chief Inspector's report also notes that by January 2011, over 1,600 foreign national prisoners were detained under immigration powers at the end of their custodial sentence pending deportation, with the average length of detention increasing from 143 days in February 2010 to 190 days in January 2011.

Plans to offer a 50 % sentencing discount to prisoners who plead guilty have been abandoned by the coalition.

Other UKIP policies are also suggestive of an ultra-conservative agenda rather than a liberal one, including the promotion of grammar schools and tougher sentences for prisoners.

The idea raised today that prisoners could learn their way to reduced sentences, while serving the rest of it at home under curfew with electronic monitoring, would be a good start.

Drugs were found in the prison cell of former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke at the federal detention center in Pennsylvania where he's serving a 46 - month sentence for beating a prisoner and orchestrating a cover - up of the assault, sources said.