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	Life imprisonment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Life imprisonment is a term used for a particular kind of sentence of imprisonment.
		In places where the death penalty is a possible sentence for a serious crime, life imprisonment is usually treated as a slightly lesser alternative punishment.
		In the Netherlands, life imprisonment means in principle that the prisoner is to spend the rest of his life in prison.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Life_imprisonment (1154 words)

	Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are a variety of other names for prisons, such as a prison-house, penitentiary or jail (in British English and Australian English, the spelling gaol is sometimes used in a formal contexts, although this spelling is pronounced in the same fashion).
		Individuals may also be committed to prison by a court before a trial, verdict or sentence, generally because the court determines that there is a risk to society or a risk of absconding prior to a trial; such pre-trial imprisonment is known as remand.
		Crime and punishment is a wide, very controversial and deeply politicised area, and so too are discussions of prisons, prison systems, the concepts and practices of imprisonment; and the sanction of custody set against other non-custodial sanctions and against the capital sanction, a death sentence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imprisonment (1027 words)

	DCBA Brief, Judicial Practice A Sentence of Periodic Imprisonment The Scope of the Rules
		Traditionally a sentence of periodic imprisonment was imposed to resolve the conflict between the necessity of a jail sentence and desirability of maintaining gainful employment.
		If the inmate is unable to contact periodic imprisonment in advance, the Director may allow a new inmate up to five working days to produce a written verification of his or her employment or other basis for release.
		A sentence of periodic imprisonment may be modified or revoked by the court if the offender commits another offense, violates any of the conditions of the sentence, or violates any of the rules and regulations of the institution, agency or Department to which he had been committed.
	www.dcba.org /brief/judpractice/0699.htm (3550 words)

	Oikeuslaitos - Imprisonment and community service
		A sentence of imprisonment is at least fourteen days and at most twelve years or, if the sentence concerns several offences, at most fifteen years.
		When a sentence of imprisonment of over two years is passed, it cannot be suspended, but must be served in custody.
		Life imprisonment means that the convict will stay in prison until the end of his or her life.
	www.oikeus.fi /16073.htm (339 words)

	Psychiatric imprisonment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychiatric imprisonment refers to the involuntary imprisonment of people in psychiatric institution on the grounds that they are considered psychiatrically insane.
		In countries such as the former U.S.S.R., and modern day China such facilities were, or currently are, routinely used to imprison and "treat" dissidents.
		Currently in China "political harm to society" is legally a dangerous mental disorder and the authorities are instructed to arrest those who make anti-government speeches, write reactionary letters or "express opinions on important domestic and international affairs".
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychiatric_imprisonment (328 words)

	Drug Use and Justice: An Examination of California Drug Policy Enforcement
		The per capita imprisonment growth rate for all drug offenses was 1,473%, while the per capita growth rate in prison commitments for sale/manufacture drug offenders was 1,048%.
		In summary, the imprisonment increases for California drug law violators during the past two decades are the result of harsher sentencing of lower level drug users.
		Increased drug arrests and imprisonment are not correlated with decreases in violent and property crime (in fact, they are more likely to be associated with increases), and high levels of drug arrests and imprisonment are not associated with lower rates of crime (the results are entirely random).
	www.cjcj.org /pubs/cadrug/cadrug.html (3427 words)

	LIFE IMPRISONMENT
		There are four classifications of indeterminate sentences in Canada: life imprisonment as a minimum sentence with no eligibility for parole for 25 years, life imprisonment as a minimum sentence with no eligibility for parole for 10 to 25 years, life imprisonment as a maximum sentence and indeterminate sentences imposed on Dangerous Offenders.
		The four classifications are: life imprisonment as a minimum sentence with no eligibility for parole for 25 years, life imprisonment as a minimum sentence with no eligibility for parole for 10 to 25 years, life as a maximum sentence and indeterminate sentences imposed on Dangerous Offenders.
		The two exceptions to this are offenders who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, who are eligible for a UTA only 3 years prior to their parole eligibility date, and offenders sentenced to detention for an indeterminate period of time, who must serve 3 years before being eligible.
	www.johnhoward.ab.ca /PUB/C40.htm (6266 words)

	Two Years Of Imprisonment For Computer Piracy
		In case the damage is considerable, correctional labor for the period of 180 — 240 hours and imprisonment for the term of about six months can be added to the penalty.
		In this case maximal term of imprisonment can be till two years.
		The punishment for being involved in organized piracy group is about five years of imprisonment with confiscation of property, depending on the caused damage.
	www.crime-research.org /news/2003/04/Mess1402.html (319 words)

	GameBanshee Forums - enemies cheat with imprisonment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		imprisonment is supposed to take 9 casting rounds to cast but the demi lich's that have imprisonement cast it right away but they do wait like 5 seconds before casting it again.
		I understand making boss enemies that say something after you beat them be immune to imprisonment but making that fallen planetar with no lines once so ever immune to imprisonment is just plain crazy.
		The demi-lich's "Imprisonment" is a special case however - it is supposed to be ranged - the developers should have named it something else, like "Trap the Soul", but they didn't.
	www.gamebanshee.com /forums/printthread.php?t=20431 (1110 words)

	Tibet: Accounts of Torture and Imprisonment
		The authors of the report, who witnessed Chinese reprisals against peaceful demonstrators during the fall of l987, and subsequently interviewed Tibetan political prisoners who had escaped to India by the fall of l988, conclude that there may be few Tibetans who have not had a family member, relative, or friend detained in prison.
		PHR works to prevent the participation of doctors in torture, to defend imprisoned health professionals, to stop physical and psychological abuse of citizens by governments and to provide medical and humanitarian aid to victims of repression.
		PHR adheres to a policy of strict impartiality and is concerned with the medical consequences of human rights abuses regardless of the ideology of the offending government or group.
	www.phrusa.org /research/torture/tortib.html (633 words)

	13-703 - Sentence of death or life imprisonment; aggravating and mitigating circumstances; definition
		D. Evidence that is admitted at the trial and that relates to any aggravating or mitigating circumstances shall be deemed admitted as evidence at a sentencing proceeding if the trier of fact considering that evidence is the same trier of fact that determined the defendant's guilt.
		E. In determining whether to impose a sentence of death or life imprisonment, the trier of fact shall take into account the aggravating and mitigating circumstances that have been proven.
		The trier of fact shall impose a sentence of death if the trier of fact finds one or more of the aggravating circumstances enumerated in subsection F of this section and then determines that there are no mitigating circumstances sufficiently substantial to call for leniency.
	www.azleg.state.az.us /ars/13/00703.htm (1241 words)

	SENTENCING IN CANADA
		Imprisonment is intended as a last resort to be used only when less restrictive alternatives are inappropriate.
		Offenders excluded from consideration for a conditional or absolute discharge are those convicted of an offence punishable by a minimum term of imprisonment, a term of imprisonment of 14 years or life imprisonment.
		Imprisonment is intended as a last resort to be used only where less restrictive alternatives are inappropriate.
	www.johnhoward.ab.ca /PUB/C33.htm (3589 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On False Imprisonment
		Mr Wallace faces four counts of battery, one count of false imprisonment and causing and permitting a child to suffer, and one count of inflicting unjustifiable mental suffering.
		He was charged with two counts of rape, kidnapping, aggravated indecent assault, terroristic threats, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint and simple assault in connection with an alleged rape of a coworker.
		Charges of false imprisonment, filed last year in Cobb against Norris Harrison Jr., were "transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in Atlanta for investigation of human trafficking," said Cobb district attorney's spokeswoman Kathy Watkins...
	www.lawkt.com /files/False_Imprisonment.html (4292 words)

	Myanmar: Facing Imprisonment: Prisoners of Concern to Amnesty International - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Among those imprisoned are the elderly and infirm, individuals with chronic mental and physical health problems made worse by their treatment in detention, and persons who were juveniles at the time of their arrest and have been held in prison with adults.
		Amnesty International is concerned that in addition to being a gross injustice, imprisonment has had grave effects on the health of political prisoners, on their families, and that former prisoners of conscience are subjected to further discrimination and harassment after release from prison.
		It is believed that she was imprisoned for her peaceful political activities in support of the Committee Representing the People's Parliament, as a member of the NLD, and for possessing NLD materials.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engasa160072004 (7240 words)

	"False Imprisonment" Defined & Explained
		It is any illegal imprisonment, without any process whatever, or under color of process wholly illegal, without regard to the question whether any crime has been committed or a debt due.
		To punish the wrong done to the public by the false imprisonment of an individual, the offender may be indicted.
		A false imprisonment action may also be maintained if 'the defendant unlawfully detains the [plaintiff] for an unreasonable period of time' after an otherwise legal seizure or arrest.
	www.lectlaw.com /def/f082.htm (242 words)

	I am not a number
		ERMS OF Imprisonment in science fiction is not limited to physical imprison-ment (either through incarceration or imprisonment in a “Devil’s Island” type of environment in which the geography prevents escape), which arises from the actions of a government that has passed sentence.
		Imprisonment can also occur (as in Alien Nation) when those “imprisoned” are easily distinguishable from their “jailers” or from the majority around them.
		Thus, some individuals are imprisoned for the good of society, irrespective of their actions, which may constitute crimes or which may simply be a result of their existence, regardless of what we might consider to be their natural rights to be free.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/corcos25.htm (4867 words)

	NCPA - Crime And Gun Control - Incapacitating Career Criminals Lowers Crime Rate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Baffled liberal criminologists claim there must be a self- perpetuating boom in U.S. prison building, since the percentage of the population in prison (the incarceration rate) rose while crime rates fell.
		Other experts say the increase in the U.S. prison population in recent years is one of the reasons crime rates have fallen: imprisonment incapacitates career criminals and deters others from committing crimes.
		Thus from 1980 to 1996, the incarceration rate lurched upward 209 percent, and there was a relatively steady decrease in the serious crime rate of 31 percent.
	www.ncpa.org /pi/crime/pd123198e.html (381 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: A Sin Against the Future: Imprisonment in the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was imprisoned for seven and a half years for his opposition to apartheid.
		Imprisonment is highest, and rising the fastest, in the United States.
		Stern documents that most penal reform reports by governments around the world "begin by questioning the efficacy of the institution of prison itself." And she questions the idea that the recent increase in incarceration in the U.S. has reduced crime outside of prisons, either by deterrence or by temporarily removing potential recidivists from society.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1555533612?v=glance (1386 words)

	Imprisonment Issues
		The disruption of the inmate’s position within the family is one of the most distressing aspects of imprisonment.
		Before imprisonment: The arrest often takes place in the family home, the children may witness it, with devastating consequences for those who see their mother, father, sister or brother taken away.
		Sometimes the choice about revealing the imprisonment is taken away from families by the press.
	www.imprisonment.org.uk /mt_issues.htm (2030 words)

	Women and Imprisonment in the u.s.
		Although systematic imprisonment arose with industrialization, for centuries prior to that time unwanted daughters and wives were forced into convents, nunneries, and monasteries.
		This is not to suggest that the imprisonment of women is not replete with sexist ideology and practices.
		The imprisonment of women of color can be characterized by the enforcement of patriarchy in the service of the social control of people of color as a whole.
	prisonactivist.org /women/women-and-imprisonment.html (9685 words)

	Conditional Sentence of Imprisonment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		shall be sentenced to imprisonment in a penitentiary.
		743.3 A sentence of imprisonment shall be served in accordance with the enactments and rules that govern the institution to which the prisoner is sentenced.
		(b) all other sentences for offences for which the offender is convicted and for which sentence of a term of imprisonment is imposed on the offender, either before or after the conviction for the offence referred to in paragraph (a).
	laws.justice.gc.ca /en/C-46/44823.html (7220 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Future of Imprisonment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for capital and corporal punishment and banishment.
		Their essays examine the effects of current high levels of imprisonment on urban neighborhoods and the people who live in them.
		Finally, the contributors argue for the strategic importance of controls on punishment including imprisonment as a limit on government power; chart the rise and fall of efforts to improve conditions inside; analyze the theory and practice of prison release; and evaluate the tricky science of predicting and preventing recidivism.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195161637 (411 words)

	Search the Opinions of the US Supreme Court
		IV(c), and if it returns him to his original place of imprisonment prior to that trial, charges "shall" be dismissed with prejudice, Art.
		Whether a federal criminal defendant's term of supervised release commences on the date of his actual release from prison or on the earlier date on which he should have been released in accordance with a retroactively applied change in the law.
		The post-removal-period detention statute, read in light of the Constitution's demands, implicitly limits an alien's detention to a period reasonably necessary to bring about that alien's removal from the United States, and does not permit indefinite detention; the application of that limitation is subject to federal court review.
	neuro.law.cornell.edu /supct/search/search.html?query=imprisonment&scope=onlysyllabi (864 words)

	AllRefer.com - false imprisonment (Crime And Law Enforcement) - Encyclopedia
		Actual physical contact is not necessary; a show of authority or a threat of force is sufficient.
		The person falsely imprisoned may sue the offender for damages.
		The suit would be brought against officials improperly issuing warrants for arrest and against private persons for any illegal total restraint of liberty.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/falseimp.html (198 words)

	Israel's Proposed "Imprisonment of Combatants not Entitled to Prisoner of War Status Law" (Human Rights Watch ...
		On June 11, 2000, in a transparent attempt to legitimize an illegal situation, the Israeli Cabinet unanimously approved draft legislation entitled "Imprisonment of Combatants not Entitled to Prisoner-of-War Status Law, 5760-2000".
		Legislation like the "Imprisonment of Combatants no Entitled to Prisoner of War Status Law" are concessions to political expediency that undermine both the rule of law in Israel and the integrity of international law, and should not be allowed to stand.
		The objective of this law is to incorporate in Israeli law the imprisonment of combatants who are not entitled to prisoner-of-war status, in a manner consistent with the provisions of international humanitarian law, particularly the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/mena/isr0622-back.htm (809 words)

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