Advocacy groups have been saying for years that the laws have had the effect of imprisoning wives and girlfriends of drug dealers in alarming numbers, shattering families in the process.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet But even if this is the first decisive small stone pitched against a national shame, its specific effect on the imprisoned will still be minimal.
More than 100,000 Rohingya live here in temporary camps such as Thet Kae Pyin, where they in effect have been imprisoned since the eruption of anti-Muslim violence in 2012.
It says in effect that the pope, imprisoned at the time by Catherine's nephew, the Emperor Charles V, found himself between a rock and a hard place.
What you get from this production is not some obscure history lesson but a fast-moving narrative about the imprisoning effect of power.
The thinking, in effect, was "Why imprison capital to insure against losses that were unlikely ever to happen?" The technical term was "risk weighted assets".
A corporate defendant in a criminal case can only be fined and not imprisoned, so the net effect of the civil penalty would be similar to the punishment in a criminal prosecution if the Justice Department wins its case.
"In the interests of justice, the identification of an arrestee as the perpetrator of some heinous crime may have the salutary effect of freeing a person wrongfully imprisoned for the same offense," Justice Kennedy wrote.
Taking place 10 years after the events of Riven, Exile reveals the reasons for Atrus' sons being imprisoned and the disastrous effects their greed caused.
But the ripple effects of large-scale incarceration now extend well beyond the individuals who are imprisoned, and as a result minority communities throughout the country have lost political influence.
But he might have given us infinitely more, if he were not imprisoned by a dismal production that elevates visual effects above narrative coherence and exploration of character.
