"The Lib Dems have already championed their commitment in 2010 by ending indefinite detention and are now willing to introduce a time limit alongside resettling 1,500 Syrian refugees and ending the use of pain as a form of restraint".
This latter goal was long-term, a cosmic struggle, possibly indefinite and certainly undefinable in terms of time.
The indefinite incarceration is a breeding ground for mental health issues.
More recently, a report from the centre-right think tank Civitas also argued for rents to be held to inflation levels and indefinite tenancies to be offered as the norm.
They say there is "no effective system in place" to detect children and adolescents at risk because of "the deleterious effect of indefinite detention" and "no child specific mental health services on the island (i.e. no paediatric psychologist or psychiatrist)".
A recent all-party inquiry described the practice of indefinite detention as "expensive, unnecessary and unjust".
A Tory cabinet minister was dramatically confronted by a woman who escaped genocide in Bosnia at an election rally after he refused to commit to ending indefinite detention of asylum seekers.
Organisers said the protest's high turnout reflected the exasperation felt among many people after the general election result – Labour had promised to ban indefinite detention – but also follows a particularly tumultuous month for a facility plagued by damaging allegations since it opened in 2001.
The lengths of tenancy agreements elsewhere range from indefinite in Germany to two years in Hong Kong.
As they stand, most free and open online business models rest on a grotesque inequality between what is given by the many – detailed, constantly updated personalised data – and what is taken by the few: profit, knowledge, and the indefinite and largely unaccountable possession of both.
He subsequently stabbed in the eye Roy Whiting, the killer of eight-year-old Sarah Payne, and was a couple of weeks ago given an indefinite sentence with a notional five-year minimum jail term to serve in addition to his whole-life sentence.
