Sentences with phrase «time criminal justice»

Not exact matches

I'm also in graduate school for my MPA in emergency management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, so the schedule is definitely full and it takes a careful balance to have some time to relax and not get burned out.

The Department of Justice has started a criminal investigation into Uber's software called Greyball, a technology that helped drivers evade local regulators, a person familiar with the investigation told The New York Times.

If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade itsJustice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade itsjustice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

After calling Mill's sentence «unjust and heavy - handed» in a Facebook post last week, Jay - Z wrote an op - ed protesting Mill's sentence and the «absurdity of the criminal justice system» for The New York Times on Friday.

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

Ruben Cardenas, 47, the Mexican national, died by lethal injection at the Texas death chamber in Huntsville at 10:26 p.m. local time, Jason Clark, deputy chief of staff for the state Department of Criminal Justice, said by phone.

Friday's filing is the first time the Justice Department has confirmed that Cohen is being looked at for potential criminal activity.

On April 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would press criminal charges against Mr. Navinder Singh Sarao, a 36 - year - old small - time British day - trader.

On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officials.

One of the fundamental mistakes that Mr. Colson makes is his assumption that one can not confront our culture's crumbling moral consensus while at the same time advocating criminal justice reform of the kind I favor.

The Prison Reform Trust has said children in care in England and Wales aged 10 - 17 are five times more likely enter the criminal justice system than other children of their age.

We send criminals to jail instead to achieve social justice, and their sentences are deliberately measured in time behind bars: Offenders must be withdrawn from society for a period sufficient to allow them to realize the wrongness of their actions» and sufficient to protect society from them until they learn that lesson.

Now, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services reports, «a large number of violent offenders are serving two, three or four times longer under truth - in - sentencing than criminals who committed similar offenses under the parole system.»

By this time I'd earned an M.S. in Criminal Justice, my focus in this degree was case law and judiciary process, which of course included an extensive study of policing histories and practices.

«These men and women are criminals, complicit in light of day defiance of the Uniform Code of Military Justice through unconstitutional proselytism, discrimination against the non-religious and establishing formal policies to reward, encourage and even at times require sectarian religious participation.

The New York City Department of Investigation disclosed last fall that their supervisors urged pregnant women correction officers in New York City — mostly minority women — to obtain abortions («Women Given Cruelest Choice Now Fight Back,» New York Times, Oct. 21, 1989) The lower levels of the criminal justice system receive little funding, and New York City prisons are crowded.

«After spending time with police officers on ride - alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grassroots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.»

At the same time, we must ensure that the victims of crimes and the effect of criminal actions against society as a whole are also taken into consideration as we weigh changes to criminal justice policy.»

Zellnor then went to Cornell Law School where he served as student body president, an editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, a constitutional law instructor in prison, and as a Pro Bono Scholar — a position that allowed him to take the New York Bar early and spend his last semester working full - time at Justice 360, a criminal justice reform organiJustice 360, a criminal justice reform organijustice reform organization.

In dismissing the applicant's contention that the ongoing investigation by the EFCC should have been concluded, Justice Tsoho cited a judgment of the Court of Appeal in holding that the law did not limit the time within which the agency must conclude criminal investigations.

Cuomo proposed a series of criminal justice reforms, including eliminating cash bail for many low - level offenses; pursuing legislation that would cut back on time defendants are held in custody before trial; and reducing the use of solitary confinement in state prisons.

«The governor has phenomenal track record of success here in New York, in terms of on - time budgets, investment in economic development, reforming the criminal justice system, ushering into law the passage of marriage equality.

«It is time for NYS to consider drug use as a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue.

At the same time, raising the age of criminal responsibility was especially thorny topic for Cuomo and Democratic lawmakers, making a compromise on the complex criminal justice issue difficult.

Lawmakers and administration officials have cited the complexity of the criminal justice matters being proposed, saying more time is needed to parse through language (lawmakers and Cuomo may be wary of again taking up a complex issue so quickly following the 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act had to be amended to exclude police officers from the measure).

When individuals fraudulently misrepresent their income and / or family composition to secure rental assistance from HUD, we participate in operations like the one today, to ensure these individuals, who at times can bring a criminal element into HUD Subsidized Housing, are brought to justice.

The governor has talked of the need to restore faith in the criminal justice system while at the same time making sure police feel «respected and protected.»

The law can be used at any particular instance, time and space to determine what is right or wrong, criminal or otherwise, but it can not ultimately deliver justice.

The pardons would allow Cuomo to work around the state legislature, which has not approved any such measure on criminal justice reform, the New York Times reports.

The City Council and the de Blasio administration are currently in negotiations over another criminal justice proposal outlined by the speaker at this time last year, when she called for a change in how the city handles summonses for low - level, non-violent quality of life offenses.

«We can support our police officers while at the same time making criminal justice reforms,» he said.

The governor doesn't spend a ton of time with the entertainer — he appears in Cuomo's public schedules just twice, once for a December, 2014 meeting in which the two discussed criminal justice reforms, and for a phone meeting the following month.

The state Department of Criminal Justice Services said roughly 210 felons were expected to have been released by this time, about 130 from the city.

At the same time, sources on Monday said gun control provisions, a measure that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits and criminal justice reform were on the verge of being kicked out of the budget.

O'Donnell is the son of former state criminal justice czar and two - time AG candidate (although she didn't run all the way to the end) Denise O'Donnell and Supreme Court Justice John O'Djustice czar and two - time AG candidate (although she didn't run all the way to the end) Denise O'Donnell and Supreme Court Justice John O'DJustice John O'Donnell.

Sen. Jeff Brandes promised criminal justice reforms, a sweeping transportation bill, banning fees on consumer report security freezes and «merlot - to - go,» but only half of those came true by the time the 2018 Legislative Session wrapped up.

At the same time, he and his members» livelihood depended on a voracious criminal justice system that swallows up thousands of mostly nonwhite young men each year.

The sheriff's office last November requested a one - time $ 521,000 payment for the program, but on Wednesday when criminal justice budget talks started both the House and the Senate agreed on giving the department $ 200,000.

Rory Lancman, a Queens councilman who has pressed the mayor to do more on criminal justice issues, said politics drove the timing, if not the substance, of the announcement.

The sections, he said, were made to ensure speedy and efficient justice delivery and prevent «malicious delays and stalling of criminal cases by parties employing frivolous and time - wasting tactics to impede the course of justice.»

Focused on delivering an on - time spending plan — which polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.

It is finally time for New York to end the torture of solitary confinement, and undertake a fundamental transformation of the state's criminal justice system as a whole, and we once again applaud the Speaker's and the Assembly's leadership toward those ends.

At the time Green was a Conservative MP but he would later become minister for policing, criminal justice and victims and then work and pensions secretary.

One reason: Dozens of demonstrators protesting criminal justice reform and police brutality shouted down Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who was also running for president at the time, during their speeches last year.

«Each time this gets ignored by the Legislature, something like 25,000 youths are left to be processed in the criminal justice system.»

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders rush to deliver an on - time budget, criminal justice reform advocates aren't holding out hope that any of their major legislative priorities will be included in the final document.

One 2007 Centers for Disease Control task force study, «Effects on Violence of Laws and Policies Facilitating the Transfer of Youth from the Juvenile to the Adult Justice System,» states that the transferring of children under the age of 18 into the adult criminal justice system increases the rate of violence behavior and makes it more likely for them to return to the system after they serve theiJustice System,» states that the transferring of children under the age of 18 into the adult criminal justice system increases the rate of violence behavior and makes it more likely for them to return to the system after they serve theijustice system increases the rate of violence behavior and makes it more likely for them to return to the system after they serve their time.

«As prosecutors, it is time to acknowledge that the public has lost confidence in part of our criminal justice system.»

But determining what other «minor» charges might also better dealt with through civil penalties, summonses or desk appearances will require consultation with the NYPD and the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, she said, as well as time to ensure that the court system is equipped to deal with an increase in summonses.

That could give Democrats some leverage when it comes time to negotiate criminal justice reforms - but, there are so many other major issues at stake for Democrats including a minimum wage increase, renewing mayoral control of schools, the sunset of rent laws, and The DREAM Act, that there is a chance that the debate could be overshadowed yet again.