This phenomenon simply can't be ignored, and those who sentence a woman to imprisonment - whether that woman is a millionaire celebrity, or an everyday drug user (which is why most women get sent to jail) - are knowingly putting women at risk.
From 1958 to 1961, he had six-, seven-, and thirteen-month absences from an otherwise prolific recording career," but doesn't say what caused these absences — whether imprisonment or debilitation.
In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights blocked the extradition of four terrorism suspects from Britain, saying it wanted to study whether imprisonment at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colo., violated a ban on inhuman or degrading treatment.
" The judge told Wright he was required by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to determine whether life imprisonment, the only sentence for murder, should mean life or whether he should fix a minimum term.
Asked whether the imprisonment of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former oil baron, was justified, Mr. Putin gave a caustic answer, quoting Vladimir Vysotsky in the 1979 film "The Place of the Meeting Cannot Be Changed".
What seems to me to be more important is to question the whole concept of privatisation being applied to prisons and imprisonment, and re-examine whether a basic responsibility of the state should have become subject to private interest.
In Abdul Nasir bin Amer Hamsah v. Public Prosecutor (1997), the Singapore Court of Appeal had to decide whether life imprisonment in the Penal Code meant imprisonment for 20 years, which was the prevailing understanding, or whether it meant imprisonment for the remaining period of the convicted person's natural life.
However, three people claiming to be Somersett's godparents, John Marlow, Thomas Walkin and Elizabeth Cade, made an application before the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus, and Captain Knowles was ordered to produce Somersett before the Court of King's Bench, which would determine whether his imprisonment was legal.
While there is ongoing support for the death penalty in polls, it's undermined by the notion of life imprisonment without parole -- though whether that is more appetizing for the inmate than execution seems an obvious question -- and a sense of cynicism about executions ever happening anyway.
Five logistic regressions were conducted to investigate factors associated with beliefs about coerced treatment (alcohol and heroin), the degree to which participants felt 'comfortable' with addicted persons (alcohol and heroin) and whether they supported imprisonment for addiction (heroin only).
