Pataki's proposal represents one of his boldest gestures in office — if, that is, it can be considered bold to suggest changing a set of laws that have been called racist, inhumane, and a hoax, and that no one really believes in anymore.
SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia endorsed a set of sweeping changes to immigration policy on Monday that would increase the number of refugees the country accepts by nearly half while reopening remote offshore detention centers that have been criticized by human rights groups as inhumane and ineffective.
"You're going to have to present a lot more evidence" of inhumane treatment to force intervention.
Scott allowed school staff to use a variety of inhumane punishments to implement and enforce the assimilation of these children.
Nevertheless, Yealland was singled out in later scholarly and literary tradition and vilified as a proponent of inhumane treatment methods.
Such procedures cannot and should not be conceived of as means of prolonging suffering and at the same time fomenting unjustified expectations among the relatives of the patient, and hence creating a surplus of inhumane suffering.
To the Editor: James E. McWilliams suggests that moving 100 million cows off the horrifically inhumane and environmentally disastrous factory farm systems and onto small local farms would simply create a different set of environmental problems — such as cutting down forests to provide the 10 acres per cow needed for grazing.
And if you want to be entertained by a tragedy with a happy ending set in an inhumane prison environment, go to see The Shawshank Redemption instead.
The vitriolic nature of the public debate sets a context where inhumane treatment of asylum seekers is somehow permissible and where cases like Mubenga's can be swept aside.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, of Maricopa County, Arizona, whom I wrote about this summer, runs a notably inefficient, inhumane — but politically popular — set of desert jails jammed with undocumented immigrants outside Phoenix.
