Sentence examples for penal affairs from inspiring English sources
As chairman of the all-party penal affairs group between 1979-86, he regularly confronted Tory ministers on the "intolerable" conditions in Britain's prisons.
The codes of the kingdom of Sardinia in civil and penal affairs, derived from the Napoleonic Code, were extended to the whole of Italy when unification was achieved in the mid-19th century.
Experts and politicians said over-representation of black men was a result of decades of racial prejudice in the criminal justice system and an overly punitive approach to penal affairs.
To be fair to him, he prosecuted that with vigour". As chairman of the all-party penal affairs group between 1979-86, he regularly confronted Tory ministers on the "intolerable" conditions in Britain's prisons.
The all-party parliamentary groups on mental health and on penal affairs have issued calls for the development of a national network of diversion schemes at police stations and courts.
In partnership with leading penal affairs and mental health charities, the Prison Reform Trust is producing clear, accurate information on levels of mental health need, current policy and practice.
There are more steps needed to ensure that Eritrea is really on a path from dictatorship to some form of nascent democracy with increased transparency in state affairs, reform of the deeply flawed judicial and penal system, and the nurturing of a political culture in which stable political institutions can take root.
The decision brings to an end a process that has lasted for more than a year, after a private citizen accused the novel of denigrating religious values under article 216 of the Turkish penal code, a complaint supported in a rare intervention by the Turkish directorate of religious affairs.
"There's no discussion about the current state of affairs with prisons," said Michelle Brown, a criminologist and associate professor at the University of Tennessee, who has written about penal tourism.
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