Sentences with phrase «under home detention»

Grant Shapps, the MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, claims this rise is the result of inappropriate prisoners being released early under the Home Detention Curfew (HDC) scheme, in response to a rising prison population.

He is under home detention and needs permission to leave his home.

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The issue of pre-charge detention became a symbolic battle between civil liberties activists and the Home Office under Labour, with many observers noting that the government had effectively scrapped habeas corpus, considered by many constitutional historians to be the foundation of a free society.

The DG affair tells the Conservative party one thing: It is OK for a future Conservative Home Secretary to order the investigation of the entire Cabinet at the time of the decision to got to war with Iraq and Campbell, confiscation all their papers, and potential arrest and detention under anti-terrorsit powers for up to 28 days on a potential charge of conspiracy to kill unspecified Iraqis.

Water detention standards instituted after Tropical Storm Allison «generally worked,» Scott Davis said, estimating that 1 percent or fewer of the new homes under construction or just a few years old flooded.

The claimants operated the Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre under a contract with the Home Office.