She provided post-dispositional representation to youth with education, sentencing, and re-entry issues in Virginia's youth prisons.
For example, when he was released from a three-year re-education sentence in 1999, dissident Liu Xiaobo said that he had been treated very mildly, that he had been allowed to spend time reading, and that the conditions had been "pretty good".
The report looks into how children's rights are observed at all stages of the legal pathway, from preventive arrest to execution of the conviction or re-education sentence ruled by the court of law.
Meta-analytical and U.S. government reports indicate that the re-education sentencing components such as the "Duluth" program are not effective in lowering rates of recidivism (National Institute of Justice 2003a2003b; Babcock et al. 2004; Feder & Wilson 2005).
Upon completion of their re-education sentences, those practitioners who refused to recant were then incarcerated in "legal education centers" set up by provincial authorities to "transform minds".
The president voiced little hope, however, that Congress would help enact policies he said could make a difference, such as universal early childhood education, drug sentencing reform and jobs investments for inner cities. "I'm under no illusion, that out of this Congress we're going to get massive investments in urban communities," Obama said.
According to its website, the Center on the States focuses on policy initiatives that include early education, prison sentencing and corrections, and the electoral process.
I can only compare a life without a secondary education to being sentenced to a life behind bars for something you had not done... in fact, something you had worked your entire life attempting to avoid.
For the Tories, there's a sentence on education that you could interprete as an attack on Ed Balls.
He later described his education as a "prison sentence".
"In today's world," she said, "there's no acceptable reason for children to starve, to have no education or to be sentenced to death, or a life of disability, because they didn't have a malaria net, or access to drinkable water, or the same polio vaccine that has been available to us in the developed world for over half a century".
