They are seeking $5m each, as well as a further $1.04m for lost business opportunities, and further punitive damages.
So far, Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, both Democrats, have scuttled Republican efforts to attach the proposal onto unrelated legislation where critics would get little opportunity to amend its punitive provisions.
The commission is seeking compensatory damages for lost aquatic life and angling opportunities as well as punitive damages to deter future pollution.
Encourage active sharing around "opportunities missed" without being punitive.
Across America, countless schoolchildren are being denied educational opportunities because of overly punitive, zero-tolerance policies that exclude them from the classroom and increase the odds they will drop out of school and enter the criminal justice system.
However, even though over 93% of correctional leaders support the offering of educational and vocational opportunities in prisons, the increasingly punitive carceral environment has led to the deterioration of educational opportunities for correctional populations (Tyler et al. 2006).
The spectre of new "opportunity periods," as the most punitive practice sessions are called, was raised.
"The reaction we got to our report is that a punitive approach could cut off opportunities to young people.
The inspections will not be punitive, but will provide a "periodic opportunity for general officers and flag officers to understand whether, from an institutional perspective, we think they are inside or outside the white lines," he said.
When that policy was announced by the Clinton administration in December 1999, the nursing home industry said it was too punitive and did not give homes enough opportunity to correct violations.
