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The earliest music of European origin included quadrilles played by regimental bands in the penal settlements.
Some recent reforms in penal policy and welfare to work have been copied from the United States.
Australia was a penal settlement at the time, and a team of convict labourers were set about the task.
Institutional racism dogs educational, legal and penal systems on all continents.
Those measures affect his fulfilment of his role as a representative, but are not penal beyond that.
I did my time in a prison that was briefly the most notorious in the Scottish penal system.
More than 90 countries worldwide have abolished corporal punishment in schools and penal systems for youth.
The early English Protestants rejected the Thomistic view that manual labor has a penal aspect, derived from Adam's punishment.
In the same way that hospitals are the acute end of the healthcare system, prisons should be the acute end of the penal system.
However, he said it was important that the Irish penal system still offered prisoners some hope of rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
Conservative critics bemoaned the pernicious consequences of softhearted penal policies and demanded stricter control of ticket-of-leave men.
She is pushing for changes in the penal code for rape and violence against women.
Any transformation of the penal system must start with the redesign of prison buildings.
Those people wanted punishment to be brought back into the penal system, but what has happened?
A spate of prison suicides has highlighted the terrible state of Britain's penal system.
The Judaeo-Christian tradition insists that the primary aim of any penal system is to reform and restore.
Granted, prison is a place for punishment, but our penal system seems to be committing worse crimes than most of the people who are in jail.
What sort of a penal system do we have when those who are supposed to confine the prisoners cannot or do not protect them?
Under the Second Claimant's penal code an accused is entitled to free representation in such circumstances.
For those on the wrong side of the law, the 1950s were seemingly akin to the early days of penal settlement.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Beccaria was an Italian publicist who worked for the reform of the penal law.
Bismarck proposed to embody the anti-socialist laws permanently in the penal code.
Accordingly, all the penal laws in question were, then and there, torn from the statute book.
There were restrictions on commerce, statute labor, barbarous penal laws, religious persecution and Jew-baiting.
Naraka, among the Hindus and the Buddhists the place of penal suffering after death.
Our whole conception of rights, and especially of penal law, should then change.
Are you conscious that you are rendering yourself liable to penal servitude?
What shall we say of the ingenious system of penal laws, which, with Draconian cruelty, was enacted against Catholicity?
We'll indict the blackguards for felony, and get 'em shipped off to penal settlements.
It was intended as an introduction to the plan of a penal code.
This can be verified by reference to any census of any penal institution.
India, with poverty, is the direst of all penal settlements.
You cannot touch him until he transgresses the limits of the penal code.
The same year saw the beginning of a relaxation of the penal code.
While the penal code was in force Irish priests were educated abroad.
At present, penal law is absolutely impotent in this matter.
He rang for Bonifazio and sent him out to buy the penal code.
In 1994, Congress eliminated Pell Grant eligibility for those in federal and state penal institutions.
Brunei may be a small nation but its new change to penal law is having a huge impact internationally.
Under the penal law in Bahrain, drug dealers may be sentenced from 10 years to life imprisonment and even capital punishment.
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