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Imprisonment is the practice of depriving individuals of their liberty and confining them in a penal institution, such as a prison or jail, as punishment for a crime they have committed. Imprisonment is typically used as a punishment for crimes that are considered particularly serious or harmful to society, such as murder, rape, or robbery. In some cases, individuals may also be imprisoned as a preventive measure, to prevent them from committing further crimes while they await trial. Imprisonment is intended to serve as a deterrent to crime, as well as to protect society by isolating individuals who have demonstrated a willingness to break the law.
LEWISTOWN, PA – The owners of a Lewistown car detailing business have been accused of using forced child labor to run their business. This week, the wife of the now deceased owner was arrested. Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced the arrest of Ellen Cummings in connection to labor trafficking in Mifflin County. Cummings ran…
By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. Like elsewhere in the world, scores of women and girls in Tanzania live in the shadow of human trafficking, whether lured and ensnared or fraud, but they generally live in limbo, fear and pain. Human trafficking is a heinous crime that shatters lives, families and dreams as the country’s…
As the world and Nigeria renew commitment to curbing human trafficking internally and externally, YEJIDE GBENGA-OGUNDARE reports that implementation of laws and policies against human trafficking and forced labour remains a challenge in the fight to stop trafficking in persons. Experts believe Nigeria has not been able to effectively use the instrumentality of the law…
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) — The United States’ Practice of Forced Labor at Home and Abroad: Truth and Facts August 2022 Introduction Over the years, the United States has concocted the biggest lies of the century such as the so-called “genocide” and “forced labor” in Xinjiang, in an attempt to smear and contain China. It…
According to rights activists and media reports Iran’s high-ranking officials – among whom, IRGC Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, and President of the Supreme Disciplinary Court for Judges, Hossein-Ali Nayeri, architected a tentacular organ harvesting and trafficking network, which, it has been alleged, has bullied young mothers to abandon their newborns, for a…
KAZAKHSTAN: TIER 2 The Government of Kazakhstan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, if any, on its anti-trafficking capacity; therefore Kazakhstan remained…
Over the course of history, especially in the 19th and 20th century, the pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science were uncovered was accelerating, as was the speed at which medical practice being transformed by these very inventions. Since then, we have come a long way from Hooke’s observation of a cell to advanced…
Express News Service BENGALURU: It is almost a century since the first law (Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929) to prevent child marriages came into effect. There has been significant strengthening of laws to prevent child marriages and abuse since then – Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 and amendment to it in 2017, exception 2…
A Renton spa employee is suspected of holding a woman against her will and forcing her into sex work. She faces two felony charges. RENTON, Wash. — A new effort is aimed at putting a stop to human trafficking in King County. The legislation was recently proposed after a Renton spa employee was arrested and…
Maxwell, 60, faces 30 to 55 years in prison after she was found guilty of procuring teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse Ghislaine Maxwell is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday morning in her New York sex-trafficking case, some six months after a jury found the British socialite guilty of luring teenage girls into…
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