"Reviews and parole hearings are subject to a risk assessment to gauge dangerousness and this is influenced by the inmate's confession, remorse and rehabilitation for reintegration back into the community.
Whether or not they should be released would depend, for example, on whether there were still legitimate penological grounds for their continued detention and whether they should continue to be detained on grounds of dangerousness.
Contracting out to machines the tedious business of assessing the dangerousness of cancer cells in histological microscope slides ought thus to be an obvious thing to do.
In a report released this week, Human Rights Watch, an NGO, says that Raúl Castro's government has made greater use of a provision of the criminal code that allows indefinite detention for "dangerousness", defined as conduct "in manifest contradiction to the norms of socialist morality".
Its other members are Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Dominica.In Cuba, Gorki Aguila, a punk-rock musician, was arrested as he was preparing to record an album, reportedly on a charge of "social dangerousness".
Classifications distinguishing offenses of greater dangerousness from lesser crimes appear in continental European codes: thus, the French penal code distinguishes between délits and contraventions (see crime, délit, and contravention).
Honig sought review by the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that the Ninth Circuit neglected to consider the decisions of other circuits that acknowledged a "dangerousness exception" to the "stay-put" provision.
Now, Dorries has been excommunicated not on account of her utility but for her dangerousness.
Psychological testing shows his dangerousness risk is "decidedly low," his lawyer Barry Levine argued in recent hearings from 2011 and 2013 over his release.
However, there are still laws that are used against gay Cubans, including laws against flamboyance (sic), loitering, and – according to Obejas – "a kind of all-purpose law against 'potential dangerousness' that allows the government to detain people for what they might do".
Judge Batty told him he needed a pre-sentence report to assess his level of dangerousness and decide whether a second life term was appropriate.
