Bill Pryor, the Alabama attorney general, told the justices the state accepted the premise that Mr. Shelton could not be jailed, and "there is no possibility" of his incarceration even if the state won the case.
With regard to the indications for closure of the hernia orifice, we consider that if, on the basis of intraoperative observation, the hernia orifice appears small and there is a possibility that incarceration of the small bowel may recur, the hernia orifice should be closed.
Perhaps the brain can contemplate the possibility of its own incarceration using some sophisticated indirect theoretical reasoning?
The stress associated with this type of justice involvement following release from prison brings a host of anxieties, the most prominent of which may be the possibility of returning to incarceration.
This is why I am such a huge advocate of education and mentorship--because they are the keys to the doors of freedom, success and new possibilities despite family histories of incarceration, alcoholism and abuse.
The possibility of the respondent's incarceration might also deter some petitioners from having DVROs served.
Although she is no longer at risk of incarceration, she invoked the possibility.
Where such DNA proof doesn't exist, the law should provide for incarceration without possibility of parole or other such measures that punish without the risk of error related to capital punishment.
Writing for the majority in the decision concerning juvenile offenders, Justice Elena Kagan said the Constitution forbids "requiring that all children convicted of homicide receive lifetime incarceration without possibility of parole, regardless of their age and age-related characteristics and the nature of their crimes".
"By requiring that all children convicted of homicide receive lifetime incarceration without possibility of parole, regardless of their age and age-related characteristics and the nature of their crimes, the mandatory sentencing schemes before us violate this principle of proportionality, and so the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment," Kagan wrote.
We are queering Living Wages and Affordable Healthcare and Transgender Justice and Getting Old Queerly and Total Immigration Access and HIV Activism and Ending Incarceration and the Possibility of Dangerous Sexual Desires.
