Sentences with phrase «treatment of prisoners»

We promote the rule of law within prisons and the fair and equal treatment of prisoners.

The much respected constitutional scholar Peter Russell called Prime Minister Harper's use of prorogation, in 2008, to avoid a non-confidence vote and, in 2010, to avoid parliamentary scrutiny of the Canadian armed forces» treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan, «a tyrant's prorogations.»

Consider in many instances, human sacrifice, baby sacrifice, torture, barbaric treatment of prisoners.

Move Over, Marina Abramovic — Asif Kapadia has taped musician and actor Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) being force - fed as a protest against the Obama administration's treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

I.e., such as civil or criminal cases concerning Arpaio's department's past treatment of prisoners, instances of racial profiling and immigration - related cases?

Let's face it, Yoo's memo opened the door for unconscionably inhumane treatment of prisoners and seriously damaged the United States» reputation abroad.

CORRECTIONAL OFFICER — January 2010 - present Employers name - Coventry Responsible for ensuring the safe, secure and humane treatment of prisoners and for managing them in a way that contributes to their development and reduces the risk of them re-offending.

Since Arpaio was first elected in 1992, he made national headlines for his treatment of prisoners in Arizona's prison system — in ways that were ultimately ruled to be cruel and unusual — and for his illegal profiling of members of Maricopa County's Latino population.

«Think about the suffering this man did for all of us... The beatings, spitting, punching, stabbing, nailing...» you think he was unique in that treatment of prisoners condemned to crucifiction?

Sadly, because of the restrictions placed on imprisonment and the treatment of prisoners by the ACLU and activist judges, there are more cases where this is required!

Jesus proclaims «freedom for the prisoners» (Luke 4:18, TNIV) and tells His followers that God will judge us according to our treatment of the prisoner: «I was in prison, and you came to visit me» (Matthew 25:36).

I believe this has been the case, particularly since 9/11, in the treatment of prisoners under U.S. custody.

• The public has been dragged through a labyrinth of denials, retractions, redefinitions and tortured arguments, all designed to justify and rationalize lowered moral standards in the treatment of prisoners, not to strengthen and defend high ethical standards.

The Whigs were the «internal improvement» party, seeking to improve not only public transportation but also public morals and education, the treatment of prisoners and the insane, the protection of Indians, the rehabilitation of drunkards and prostitutes, and the future prospects of slaves.

Founded in London originally to obtain an amnesty for prisoners of conscience but Amnesty have gone on to fight against torture and ill - treatment of prisoners, as well as against capital punishment.

MPs warned that the treatment of the prisoners threatened to undermine the Geneva convention on human rights and called on the international community to step up its efforts to work with the US to close the prison.

Cruel and unusual punishment is a charged topic and probably too broad to get into here, but most cases involving the treatment of prisoners are tied to how we define these words.

«But... last year his firm started proceedings against the department precisely to prevent us handing them over to the Afghan authorities precisely because of concerns about the treatment of prisoners in the system.

He was more surprised by Seabrook's response when Dromm asked about the treatment of prisoners in solitary confinement.

At Cuomo's urging, New York is poised to adopt new standards for the treatment of prisoners held in solitary confinement in local jails.

It found one of London's large local prisons to be demeaning in much of its treatment of prisoners.

... No German cars, no Japanese cars because of their treatment of prisoners of war... no French cars as the invaded our country in 1066, no Spanish because of the Armada...!!

You may even find examples of essays that discuss the overcrowding of prisons and the treatment of prisoners.

2006 saw the push by President Bush to expand his wartime powers, along with the discussion of torture (or «enhanced interrogation») after information came out about Guantanamo Bay detention center and various «black sites» and their treatment of prisoners in the search for intelligence.

And most recently came global treaties, first to establish mutually beneficial rulebooks for issues like the treatment of prisoners of war, more recently to foster fairness in trade and enact shared standards for protecting the globe's commons --- its atmosphere, biological veneer and seas.

Mr. Zinger recommends that CSC review its policies and practices for the treatment of prisoners, specifically related to health care services, solitary confinement, and instruments of constraint.

Whether international treaties — specifically the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war — applied to provide limits to the government's treatment of those deemed enemy combatants.

Here treatment is generally specified by Treaty, and in the absence of a treaty, general convention (i.e. the U.N. Convention of Treatment of Prisoners, etc..)

I was also delighted to see that the latest issue of the LRB contains a vigorous review by Lord Sedley of The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law by Nigel Rodley, The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations by Daniel Heller - Roazen, and The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter Leeson.

Geneva Conventions (to improve, in time of war, the condition of the wounded and sick on the protection of civilians, the treatment of prisoners, the status of refugees) and additional protocols

The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) forcefully called on member states to respect prisoners» inherent dignity, allow access to medical care, protect vulnerable inmates and ensure access to legal representation.

It has been two years since the United Nations adopted crucial revisions to the international standards on the treatment of prisoners.

Both «torture» and «cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment» are declared illegal under the Third Geneva Convention, to which the Supreme Court ruled in June 2006 that — President Bush's February 2002 memorandum notwithstanding — the United States in its treatment of all prisoners must adhere.

In protesting the treatment of prisoners in Canada, we often adopt the language of fiscal responsibility for public health resources in arguing that the impacts of government negligence and / or discrimination extend to people outside of prisons.

The «meaningful human contact» stipulation comes from rule 44 of the United Nations» Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners that defines solitary confinement as «the confinement of prisoners for 22 hours or more a day without meaningful human contact.»

In addition, many of the cases proceeded on solid legal foundations based on war crimes (e.g. the Commando Order) and treatment of prisoners -...