Detention

cruel form of punishment allowed in federal prisons and detention centers for inmates-as well as your wonderful children’s very own school. That’s right. Welcome to the world of school detentions, full of wasted time, a lack of productivity and communication all for the vague reasoning of “teaching the child right from wrong.” Well kids won’t know what’s right from wrong if they’re simply isolated from everyone else. The typical detention in the U.S. requires a student to report to a designated…

hour to socialize or get work done during this time, but with this came 50 minute detentions to those who were assigned them. A week before Mega Lunch started on September 26th, Principal Wooten held meetings with each grade level separately by gender. During these meetings Mr. Wooten explained the rules and regulations for Mega Lunch, in which the 50 minute detentions were brought up. He explained that the detentions would be held during the first 50 minutes of Mega Lunch in the auxiliary gym…

Bill 2001 (Cth) allows the Australian navy to send illegal maritime vessels to offshore processing facilities. However unlike offshore processing, which is exclusively for persons arriving by boat, mandatory detention is used for persons arriving by any mean of transport. Current mandatory detention policy states that “all non-citizens who are in Australia without a valid visa are to be detained whilst being processed, this means that immigration officials have no choice but to detain persons…

economical and respectful of human rights. One such approach has been the creation of detention centres to process asylum seekers. In this essay, an argument is made that while short-term detention of asylum seekers is justifiable, indefinite mandatory detention is a violation of human rights and therefore unacceptable. This notion is looked at in the context of Australia, and the human rights violations that indefinite detention has on asylum seekers who travel there. Before delving…

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed over a dissent. The Court may have agreed that their pretrial detention could be in place based on the dangers posed by the defendants, the Court stated the Government could not, based on due process. Pretrial detention is believed by the Court to deprive the defendant of their liberty to prevent them from committing future crime. They government could not hold someone because it was thought…

drive themselves to school, should not get detention for being late for class hence the parent didn’t get them to school on time. In the past couple of years, some students have gotten disciplined for being late for school when it wasn’t their fault. The parent took too long at their house and didn’t access the student to school on time. When these students walked into class late because their parent didn’t access them to school on time, they got detention. Multitudinous parents have…

included the introduction of mandatory detention of any asylum seeker with a maximum detention of 273 days. The maximum detention was removed in 1994, which is currently in place which means that asylum seekers can be detained for an indefinite period of time. In 2012 third world country processing of asylum seekers who arrived by boat was introduced and detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island were built. The Introduction of mandatory indefinite detention and third world country processing…

experience a high risk of mental harm, physical and mental violence, denied rights to education and basic needs that every human deserves. These are needs that breach and corrupt the way of human flourishing. Since 1992, the Australian immigration detention centres have an enforced policy that all non-citizens, including children, who seek entrance to Australia without a legal visa, are detained (Border.gov.au, 2015). “Detained” defined as providing an inadequate childhood that leads to hunger…

The recent development of inhumane mistreatment of asylum seekers in detention centres has caused a media uproar showcasing the lack of human morality of the mistreatment of refugees in domestic detention centres. Australia has been known for signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and also the one of the founding counties of the United Nations (U.N) [Australian Human Rights Commission, 2015]. This leaves Australia in a position of prestige, being a country that fully supports…

No Child’s Play: Children in Immigration Detention. Description of the Issue As of The 31st of August 2015 there are currently 104 children being held in Immigration Residential housing, Immigration transit accommodation and alternative places of detention? (Department of Immigration and Border Protection, 2015). The large majority of children in these detentions centres have come to Australia seeking asylum from their homeland. Yet, we put them into a facility that can cause them great harm…