Sentence examples for detention longer from inspiring English sources

Any detention longer than 48 hours requires judicial oversight.

Canada remains one of the few western countries in the world without a time limit on detentions, a sharp contrast to the UK – where peers voted in March to limit detention to 28 days unless otherwise ordered by a court – and the US, where a landmark 2001 decision by the supreme court said justification was needed for any detention longer than six months.

In Zadvydas v. Davis, the court held that because detention longer than six months could raise serious constitutional problems, the statute should be interpreted to avoid those problems by limiting detention of a deportable alien who did not pose a risk to the community.

What has happened is that kids are staying in detention longer: "The average length of time that migrant children spend in custody has nearly doubled [since last year], from 34 days to 59," the Times reported.

In its opinion, the Court made clear that Arizona police who request an immigration status check from the federal authorities may not extend a detention longer than would normally occur merely because they have not received a response from the federal authorities.

However, although the numbers of children has fallen, they are held in detention for longer.

If they are held in detention for longer than 30 days, their documents, including IDs, are destroyed.

The administration's proposal is basically to keep children in immigration detention for longer than is currently allowed.

Friends have reported that he had told them he couldn't bear detention any longer and wanted "to go outside".

But much depends on how long they were held in detention: a longer stay at a later age requires the longest recovery period, he noted.

President Dmitri A. Medvedev amended the criminal code on Tuesday to make the tax evasion charges used to hold a lawyer who died in pretrial detention no longer punishable by jail time.