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  Thailand
Members of hill tribes without proper documentation continued to face restrictions on their movement, could not own land, and were not protected by labor laws, including minimum wage requirements.
Although the government was supportive of efforts to register citizens and to educate eligible hill tribe persons about their rights, activists reported that widespread corruption and inefficiency at all levels, including among highland village headmen and government officials, contributed to a backlog of pending citizenship applications.
Hill tribe members continued to face societal discrimination arising from the belief that they were involved in drug trafficking and environmental degradation.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61628.htm   (17343 words)

  
 Broken Hill Correctional Centre
Broken Hill Correctional Centre, which is a medium security and minimum security institution for both males and females, is located in far western NSW, 1190km from Sydney.
Broken Hill is also serviced by private coaches and airlines.
The Centre is a twenty minute walk or a five minute taxi ride from the train station.
www.dcs.nsw.gov.au /offender_management/offender_management_in_custody/correctional_centres/brokenhill.asp   (311 words)

  
 CERTOps.com
On Tuesday, an officer’s leg was broken at Centralia Correctional Center when he attempted to break up a fight and the prison went to lockdown status.
Summerside police are investigating an alleged assault on a prisoner in the Prince County Correctional Centre.
But for the corrections officers, Hill Correctional Center is an understaffed facility with violent inmates who are unafraid to challenge their authority and assault them.
www.certops.com /certops/certnews0701-1606.html   (10349 words)

  
 Lawlink NSW: 1.3 The Prison Experience
That Corrective Services effect the placement and transfer of Aboriginal prisoners according to the principle that, where possible, an Aboriginal prisoner should be placed in an institution as close as possible to the place of residence of his or her family.
Broken Hill Correctional Centre is usually visited once every 12 months due to the distance and cost of travel involved.
Corrective service authorities should negotiate with such groups for the provision of educational and cultural services to Aboriginal prisoners and favourably consider the formal recognition of such bodies as capable of representing the interests and viewpoints of Aboriginal prisoners.
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au /report\lpd_reports.nsf/pages/rc99_prison   (3754 words)

  
 The Relationship between Research and Drug Policy in the United States - Discussion Paper No. 44
The latter is the director of The Lindesmith Center, a research and dissemination centre on «drug policy reform» based in New York and San Francisco with a representation in the Netherlands (20).
In spite of a massive investment in correctional facilities by state and federal authorities — resulting in the creation of a «prison-industrial complex» according to some journalists and scholars (40) — the growth of the U.S. prison population has clogged up the criminal justice system.
Some sections are broken down into subsections when both the variety of issues tackled and the number of entries made it possible.
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 UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1992 Issue 1 - 006
Under the Drug Addiction Treatment Centres Ordinance, a drug-dependent person found guilty of an offence punishable by incarceration may be sentenced by a court to detention in a drug addiction treatment centre.
Six correctional facilities under the Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Interior provide treatment programmes for drug-dependent persons sentenced by a court to terms of imprisonment or of probation after having been convicted of drug-related offences.
For example, the training centre for the treatment of drug- dependent persons is in Malaysia; the centre for drug education is in the Philippines; and the centre for drug law enforcement is in Thailand.
www.unodc.org /unodc/bulletin/bulletin_1992-01-01_1_page007.html   (5604 words)

  
 STRUCTURAL PLURALISM AND THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A study of problems at the controversial Northeast Ohio Correctional Center observed that risks of disorder and escape are tightly linked to the prison's disciplinary procedures and the availability of work and educational opportunities, and consequently the public might have a right to know about these subjects as well.
Corrections policy is a subject of profound importance, involving basic questions about the meaning of justice, the legitimate use of force, and the promotion of public safety.
Correctional policy involves a collective decision that the fundamental rights of fellow citizens should be severely restricted.
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 Pennsylvania
The main ridge, highest on the east, is broken by the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, which flows through the centre of the state.
They have the power of examining the various charitable, reformatory, and correctional institutions, including the city and county jails, prisons, and almshouses, and are required to submit an annual report to the Legislature.
Institutions seeking state aid are expected to give notice to the Board, which is to inquire carefully into the grounds for the request and report its conclusions to the Legislature.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/pennsylvania.html   (6326 words)

  
 bohnsack.com » Blog Archive » Broken ankle progress
I'm in a situation similar to your mother's: broken ankle, not enough upper body strength for crutches, sore wrists and heels of hands, and in my case no room for wheelchair in my apartment.
Correction: My chair has 5 wheels (I doubt 4--if any are made with 4--would be stable enough).
not broken but severely sprained with torn ligaments and what not, they casted it which allowed me to walk on the left leg...and i just recently got that one taken off.
bohnsack.com /2003/05/15/broken-ankle-progress   (18450 words)

  
 The Broken Hill Web Guide
The Department of Rural Health, Broken Hill aims to contribute to the improved recruitment and maintenance of health professionals in remote and rural Australia and to provide leadership by generating and disseminating knowledge that advances rural health practice.
Broken Hill Correctional Centre, which comprises a medium security institution for both males and females and a periodic detention centre, is located in far western NSW, 1190km from Sydney.
At that time Broken Hill was a rough and ready community of timber and corrugated iron buildings and the need for public health controls was one of the main driving forces behind incorporation.
www.bhwebguide.com /community.htm   (580 words)

  
 Lawlink NSW: Appendix B: Female offenders
A further correctional centre is proposed for South Windsor.
Women are occasionally housed at the Broken Hill or Bathurst Correctional Centres but only if they are from the local area and are serving a very short sentence.
A centre at Broken Hill was opened in February 2000, but as yet no offenders have been sentenced to attend there.
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au /lrc.nsf/pages/R96appB   (1545 words)

  
 Text Only Version -- Shaker Historic Trail -- National Register of Historic Places
One of the most thriving of the Shaker communities was Pleasant Hill, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, which had over 500 inhabitants and included over 260 buildings in the 19th century.
At its peak, Pleasant Hill was one of the largest Shaker communities and by the mid-1850s was home to approximately 600 Shakers occupying 250 building and almost 2800 acres of land.
The multiple Family Dwellings at Pleasant Hill are perfect examples of his approach with their particularly deep cellars and broad attics, living arrangements designed to be conducive to efficient domestic economy.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/shaker/text.htm   (13729 words)

  
 Broken Hill inmates assist in town clean-up
When a mini-cyclone tore through Broken Hill and district in early November 2005, over 30 homes lost roofs and 100 residents had to be evacuated.
Quick to respond were inmates from Broken Hill Correctional Centre.
Normally, the Centre's community projects involve maintenance of the town's footpaths, parks and the local children's cemetery.
www.dcs.nsw.gov.au /information/news/prison_clean-up.asp   (215 words)

  
 The Sentinel Online : Archives : News
He says understaffing and overcrowding led to the Camp Hill riots, and officers today sense a tension similar to the tension felt before that facility exploded in violence.
She notes that Pennsylvania Secretary of Corrections Jeffrey Beard was part of the crew that "cleaned up" Camp Hill Prison after the 1989 riots.
DOC statistics show that 70 percent of assaults on corrections officers take place in the restricted housing units, which are set up for inmates considered more of a threat than those in the general prison population.
www.cumberlink.com /articles/2005/07/11/news/news01.txt   (1526 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Hill: Video: Sean Connery,Harry Andrews,Ian Bannen,Alfred Lynch,Ossie Davis,Roy Kinnear,Jack Watson,Ian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"The Hill" that gives the movie its name is a device of torture built by prisoners in the Libyan desert: a pyramid of stone, sand and corrugated iron, which looks like a vestige of some ancient, barbaric age.
One feels the tortuous heat of the punishing hill in the British prison, the strained nobility of seasoned soldiers treated with contempt by their captors, the unspoken psychological tremors beneath "Williams'" foreboding surface...
The hill's theme is in the vein of POW movies like King Rat and Bridge on the River Kwaii, with the twist that it's about British inmates in a North African British military correctional facility.
www.amazon.com /Hill-Sean-Connery/dp/B00004CWKZ   (2369 words)

  
 4616__384x512.jpg detail / Broken Ankle / photos / bohnsack.com - Matthew Bohnsack
My ankle got broken after a forty-foot house footing colasped on me. I was buried alive for a 1hr 1/2 in a 9ft ditch.
One of his many injuries is a severly broken ankle (and fib/tib??)..THe ortho said it has 30 breaks in it...
She fell during one of her routines and broken both bones in her ankle.
bohnsack.com /photos/broken_ankle/detail/4616   (19328 words)

  
 Phipps' Defence of Francis V, Duke of Modena
The house of correction at Saliceta is an institution copied from one of those very Bavarian models which Mr.
Long previous an older house of correction had existed in the citadel of Modena, but from the opening of Saliceta the later became the only house of correction for males in the Ducal States.
It would be strange indeed if the charge of Obscurantism could be fixed upon the heirs of the House of Este, who, of all men, have made the most liberal provision in their dominions for the culture of literature, science, and the fine arts.
www.jacobite.ca /documents/18610307a.htm   (7587 words)

  
 Ex-con works toward opening boxing gym with businessman's help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He was thrilled to rent a tiny $450 a month apartment in Dormont with a checkerboard vinyl kitchen floor that looked as though it had lost as many decades as Larry.
He was 51, a dinosaur among all the young faces at Federal Correctional Institute in McKean.
He first met her in 1971, while he was getting a haircut on Centre Avenue and happened to notice a beautiful 23-year-old woman with a tall afro walking by.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06214/710287-51.stm   (2443 words)

  
 Restorative Justice for Juveniles in Hong Kong: Reflections of a Practitioner
The centre has been actively involved with restorative practices in schools, providing professional support in mediation and other activities such as publications, seminars and workshops related to restoring harmony in human relationships.
As the chairman of the centre, I frequently went to schools to conduct conferences when there were serious conflicts between students, and I could simultaneously demonstrate skills for teachers.
Thereafter, on behalf of the Centre of Restoration, I signed a contract with the IIRP in December 2003.
www.realjustice.org /library/au05_wong.html   (5357 words)

  
 University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
These include bilingual education programmes, magnet schools, desegregation assistance centres, women's educational equity programmes, financial aid for students who are minorities or women, and grants to strengthen historically African-American colleges and universities.
All correctional systems in the U.S. have codes of conduct that govern inmate behaviour, and all have systems for imposing sanctions when inmates violate this code.
Inmates are provided a copy of the code of conduct immediately upon their arrival at a correctional institution, and additional copies are maintained in the inmate law libraries.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/usdocs/1994.html   (19388 words)

  
 Six Nations Solidarity
Hill faces two counts of assault in relation to a confrontation between a mob of non-indigenous Caledonia residents and people from the reclamation site (after a police cruiser entered a "no go" zone on June 4).
Hill is to appear in the colonial court in Cayuga on July 16.
Hill also confirms that Ontario crisis negotiator David Peterson has been removed by the province and that Jane Stewart is now the primary negotiator for Ontario.
sisis.nativeweb.org /actionalert/index.html   (13936 words)

  
 Correctional facilities in New South Wales
The Department of Corrective Services is the public authority responsible for correctional facilities in New South Wales.
The Centre is classified as a short tern remand and transient centre, housing unsentenced and sentenced B and C classification inmates, including drug court sanctions and male periodic detainees.
Serves as a Reception Correctional Centre for Tamworth and surrounding districts.
www.aic.gov.au /research/corrections/facilities/nsw.html   (805 words)

  
 Corporate Watch : Global Solutions Ltd. : Corporate Crimes
The worst reported cases of violence to detainees are nearly always in vans while being moved between detention centres or to the airport; worryingly, visitors to detainees have reported a significant increase in these movements in recent months27.
In March 2005 two GSL officers were suspended after a 23-year-old prisoner in HMP Rye Hill killed himself in his cell.40 In April 2005 another inmate in Rye Hill died of stab wounds.
At the time of publishing this report, around 57 Zimbabwean asylum seekers in detention centres around the UK are on hunger strike, in protest against the conditions in detention and the fact that they are being deported despite facing persecution when they return.
www.corporatewatch.org /?lid=1843   (2996 words)

  
 Upgraded Broken Hill prison to house more inmates. 18 July 2005. Broken Hill News
Upgraded Broken Hill prison to house more inmates.
The New South Wales Government will spend more than half a million dollars upgrading the Broken Hill Correctional Centre to accommodate the state's expanding prison population.
The best analysis of politics, insight into the issues that affect you locally, and colourful stories about people and places in your state.
www.abc.net.au /news/australia/nsw/brokenh/200507/s1416216.htm   (254 words)

  
 Cornelia Rau in Mildura :: ABC Mildura - Swan Hill Victoria
Baxter Immigration Detention Centre: Cornelia Rau calls for an 'attitude change' in staff there, as well as in correctional centres.
Following the release of the Palmer Report into her case, Ms Rau says she's pleased with its conclusions, feeling that it's vindicated her mental state and that not enough was done to look after her in the events that saw her put in prison and then into detention.
The actual Correctional Service officers should have a very positive attitude towards the prisoners, and treat them in a fair way, and not treat them like second class citizens.
www.abc.net.au /milduraswanhill/stories/s1416641.htm   (950 words)

  
 Addicted To God   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
That was my god." Bradley took God into his life soon after an alcohol and drug seminar at the correctional centre.
Bradley has worked with youth at the Victoria youth Custody Centre, held bible-based support groups for inmates at Wilkinson Road jail and delivered drug and alcohol awareness talks to school-aged kids for more than a decade.
A shoulder tattoo of a broken heart with a hole in it serves as a permanent reminder of the pain that led him down the path toward self-destruction as a teenager.
www.mapinc.org /newscc/v04/n1302/a02.html?397   (687 words)

  
 Pain Merchants: Security equipment and its use in torture and other ill-treatment - Amnesty International
The use of shackles in Cambodian prisons and detention centres was banned by government order in 1993, but the ban is widely contravened.
The application of five-point restraints in the circumstances described is a clear violation of international human rights standards, which prohibit the use of restraints as punishment.
On 13 July 1998, Oakland defendant Brian Hill, who was also conducting his own defence, was reported to have been accidentally stunned by a belt, and was briefly hospitalised.
web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGACT400082003   (16677 words)

  
 Cyberhood Newsstand
Burns night at House on the Hill Bed and Breakfast was held Saturday, January 20, 2001 celebrating the birthday of Scotland's National Poet, Robert Burns.
That was to be followed by the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, in 1980, recognizing her powerful influence on ballet in America.
Currently, Long Lane School is the only state-operated juvenile correctional facility for youth who have been ordered by courts to live under the jurisdiction of the state Department of Children and Families.
www.hillsidehistoricdistrict.com /news3.htm   (12182 words)

  
 Grafton Correctional Centre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grafton Correctional Centre [1] is a medium security prison for both males and females in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia.
As well as housing sentenced offenders, the Centre serves as a reception prison for northern NSW.
In September 2004, inmates at the prison were found to be keeping red-back spiders in a jar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grafton_Correctional_Centre   (143 words)

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