Sentence examples for detentions from from inspiring English sources

Though grand jury secrecy laws prohibit most people with information about material witness detentions from talking about the cases, Ms. Brown continued, the witnesses themselves are free to speak.

Macy's officials called the charges baseless: officials do use numbers of detentions from the previous year as a guide to what kind of activity to expect, they said, but not to pressure guards; security officials must sign a code of conduct that prohibits racial profiling; and race and gender codes are used only for description purposes when guards communicate among themselves.

Janneh knows about the secret government detentions from experience.

Hiding detentions from the scrutiny of the courts will not convince the rest of the world that we are not engaged in a Global War on Islam; will not help sort out the innocent from the guilty; and will not allow the public to determine whether the executive is doing a competent job in capturing the guilty.

We reduced the legal limit for pre-charge detention from 28 to 14 days.

Scaling back pre-charge detention from 28 to 14 days is now largely agreed.

Detainees are subjected to abuse and sometimes even death — 107 people died in immigration detention from 2003 to 2010.

Mr. Paterson exempted other locally administered programs like special education and youth detention from the cuts as well.

What matters is its central figure: a touching, troubled preadolescent boy, locked into a house of detention from which he ­escapes.

She chaired San Francisco's Advisory Committee for Adult Detention from 1966 to 1968, and in 1969 she won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

The bill does expand the limit to seven days of detention, from two days, though under some circumstances that could be repeatedly extended by six-month periods.