Detention

Country: Russia Committee: UNHCR Topic: Immigration Detention With the increase of immigrants due to war and extremist groups taking root in the Middle East, many countries have been squeezing past international laws that allow basic human rights for immigrants. Powerful leaders including European countries and the United States have been looked to for support but have mostly responded with hostility, no involvement whatsoever, or unproductive xenophobia. Slow admission processes,…

The first type of Prison and Jail is known as the “Youth Detention Center” which is also known as Juvenile Detention Center(JDC) or juvy. Juvenile Detention Center is a secure prison or jail for minors. A Juvenile is a young person or minor that has not reached their eighteenth birthday. They are often called juvenile delinquents. Juvenile delinquency is the violation of law committed by a person prior to their eighteenth birthday. There is numerous reasons as to why they could be in there,…

establishment of Refugee detention centres. With the first immigration detention centre opening in 1966 in Melbourne, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding this topic. Detention camps were opened in order to have placement of people entering Australia, without valid visa’s or documentation to basically, be imprisoned. Through the years this has received much attention from the media and civilians, with various opinions on the topic. In 2001, the first offshore detention centre was…

testimonies of numerous defectors, the existing provisions supposed to uphold the right to liberty and security are very often not followed in the DPRK, leaving the alleged criminals without any guarantees to have a fair trial, and in arbitrary detention. Moreover, detainees in short-term prisons are commonly imprisoned without criminal conviction by a court of law. Thus, even though most detainees in the ordinary prison system are convicted to a defined prison term by a court, it is often the…

Berks Center, an immigration family detention center in Pennsylvania is one of the facilities where mothers and children are detained together in order to keep children with their mothers while they wait for their asylum cases to be heard. But a three-year-old boy from El Salvador was held for three days without his mother under the supervision of the staff at the detention center. He was later released into his grandmother’s care. Under a joint operation named Project Red II, between the U.S.…

Intro (237) Children in immigration detention centres have been a prevalent issue since 1992, which has affected the lives of many that are fleeing their countries to seek a better life. This issue affects the common good in unfathomable ways. Some of the happenings in the detention centres affect the dignity of not only the children in the detention but the adults too. The children have either been witness to or experienced some form of violence or abuse whether it is sexual, physical, or…

Regardless of the cuts (which may be reversed) made by the Obama Administration the reality is that the damage of the C.I.A. Detention and Interrogation Program is done. Hundreds have suffered under the program and the lasting psychological damage to many victims is severe and irreversible. Furthermore, the credibility of the C.I.A. to the American public and the U.S. government itself has been diminished because of their falsely reported information and excessive utilization of brutal…

juvenile detention or rehabilitation center. The problem with charging kids based on age is that each person matures at different rates and times, like Cameron Williams who ran from the police after shooting one. The Jordan Brown case which involved an eleven year old who killed Kenzie Houk. Statistics also show that Juvenile Detention Centers are not as effective in adolescents like for Julie Kisaka who had completely turned her life around after committing a crime. . A Juvenile Detention…

Juvenile facilities are treated properly. Sadly, for some facilities, that hope is not the reality. Children needs in certain juvenile detention center are neglected and proper protocol is not followed. In my brief employment at such a juvenile detention center, I believe often more so than not, that said actions go unreported. The purpose of a juvenile detention center to me is to rehabilitate the children that they receive. In order to do so they need to nurture and correct them out of care…

My First Detention I was in grade 1, fresh student, the anxious and friendly type, so I mostly kept to myself. Until one day I was eating lunch at recess when the desk partner beside me was claiming at how good his sandwich was, even though I had a chocolate granola Chewy bar. Which in the underground kid trading market was worth top credit. He noticed what I had with an envious stare, and then smiled with a mischievous grin. “Madame, Keaton has peanuts in his food!”, “WHAT!” she spoke marching…