Detention

characters all serving a full saturday together while stuck in detention. Each individual is at a separate stage in their development and finding their own identities. There is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal as perceived by the general population. Claire, the Princess, and Bender, the criminal, each go through many changes during this single detention. Many of the events and shenanigans that happen during the detention not only have a lasting impact on one of the…

and to top it off, you have five minute until you are tardy for school. After a while of slow driving in the rain and hurried persistence on your part, your parent(s) finally pull(s) up to the school; you are late. You receive a tardy and now have detention even though being late wasn 't your fault. This is an unfair punishment for someone that is not responsible for when they arrive. Unfortunately, students are often punished unfairly for being late. Although being on time to school is…

government. While they’re being processed for whether or not they are eligible to have asylum in Australia, they are kept in large camps called detention centres, and are called Asylum seekers. However, these detention centres are cruel and inhumane in their treatment of asylum seekers, and should absolutely not be used to hold anyone. Case in point, Don Dale detention centre, the place of the former juvenile prison, located in rural Northern Territory. This centre has recently come under fire…

worse, some of the people in these detention centers are legal immigrants who were arrested on misdemeanor charges. Policies on immigration detention must be reformed due to staggering amount of faultily detained migrants, poor treatment and unethical practices. DEFINITION OF THE ISSUE Many immigration advocates are pushing for a reform of immigration detention policies in America. Although the rate of illegal immigration has decreased, the number of detention inmates has steadily increased.…

In 1996 Congress passed the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) which mandated detention of noncitizens convicted of any crime, including minor drug charges. It is said that this law was responsible for the great influx in the immigrant detention system in the late 1990s. After serving a sentence in the United States, detainees must then face possible deportation. Legal immigrants who pose little threat are risk…

The maximum period of detention of a temporary patient is six months, but if, towards the end of that six month period, the chief medical officer of the institution is of the opinion that the patient has not recovered, he may extend the original period of detention for a further six months up to a total of twenty-four months, or twelve months in the case of an addict. A person of unsound mind is broadly defined in the MTA 1945 as a person who requires detention for protection and care, and…

consensual contact, detention and probable cause are important to for law enforcement. To know the difference between each could be difference between enforcing the law and letting someone go. According to Robertson and Wallace, consensual contact is defined as when an individual is not detained by the police and the police have not had any manner recommend to that individual and is not free to end the encounter and withdraw from. There are two types of detentions. Terry-Type Detention is…

overseeing the immigration of thousands of individuals, it comes as a surprise that they are not in control of the release and detention of immigrants (Kubrin, Martinez, and Ztaz). The delay process aims to catch, process and prepare immigrants for possible deportation depending on their cases. This process should be fair and civil. Over the past two decades, the immigration detention system has grown dramatically. It has come from having to contain 7,500 individuals in the year 1995 to having…

The second stakeholder is the Australian Government and their perspective within the issue is based on their beliefs that the immigration detention allows to be a frequent migration system in order for them to manage the potential risks towards the Australian community. This includes the national security, health and character risks. It also supports the integrity of Australia’s via programmes (Boarder.gov.au, n.p, p. 82). Furthermore the Australian Government argues that their services for…

increase of immigrants being held in detention centers sometimes for year and an increase of deportations as well. Neither, stricter immigration policies nor increased enforcement, has decrease the income of immigrants. Its safe to say that these “solutions” have not been effective. “Immigrants [are] pawns in a complex and tragic game.” (Furman,58) Immigrant move to the US…