Imprisonment

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.

 

 

Documented gang member sent to prison for sex trafficking – Department of Justice
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Documented gang member sent to prison for sex trafficking – Department of Justice

HOUSTON – A 24-year-old man who resided in Houston and grew up near Crosby has been ordered to federal prison for trafficking a minor and another for sex, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Aryion Dupree Jackson pleaded guilty Dec. 19, 2022, in two separate cases. He admitted to the sex trafficking of a minor…

What you need to know about the latest NCAA legal battle
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What you need to know about the latest NCAA legal battle

6:30 AM ET The NCAA returns to a federal courtroom Wednesday to continue its fight against one of the many current challenges to its amateurism-based business model. If this slow march toward something more akin to professional sports is starting to feel to you like the equivalent of an 18-play, 14-minute drive engineered by a…

The Criminal Offence of Human Trafficking – Lexology
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The Criminal Offence of Human Trafficking – Lexology

Right from under the noses of the British Home Office, hundreds of child refugees, seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, are being abducted and trafficked for all sorts of reasons. The British Home Office has been repeatedly cautioned by a multitude of agencies, about the dangers such vulnerable children faced, arriving unaccompanied from their homelands….

Nigerian senator’s organ harvesting trial starts in UK
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Nigerian senator’s organ harvesting trial starts in UK

Nigeria’s former deputy senate president, his wife and daughter went on trial in a London court on Monday for allegedly plotting to harvest a street trader’s kidney.  Ike and Beatrice Ekweremadu, their 25-year-old daughter Sonia and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, are accused of conspiring to exploit the man for his organ. The kidney was allegedly…

Two men facing human trafficking charges in Antigua | Loop Caribbean News
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Two men facing human trafficking charges in Antigua | Loop Caribbean News

Two Antiguans could end up spending up to 25 years in prison for allegedly smuggling 12 Indian nationals into the island. Sometime recently, local coast guard reportedly impeded a boat which was carrying 11 adults and one child who were reportedly coming from Dominica. It is said that the police found Alvin Goodwin of Gray’s…

SA lags in preventing human trafficking – US State Department – defenceWeb
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SA lags in preventing human trafficking – US State Department – defenceWeb

South Africa, according to a United States (US) Department of State report, does not fully meet minimum standards to eliminate human trafficking but makes “significant efforts” to do so. The plus side of the equation includes convicting and sentencing people found guilty of trafficking to substantial jail sentences. These include government officials complicit in trafficking….

Repression, Debt, Corruption and Human Trafficking: Hun Sen's Cambodian Legacy
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Repression, Debt, Corruption and Human Trafficking: Hun Sen's Cambodian Legacy

  Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s record of 38 years in power is currently exceeded by only three African despots. The presidents of Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and Uganda, Théodoros Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Paul Biya, and Yoweri Museveni, have all held power for longer than Hun Sen. Like him, they are political fossils who have done…

Human trafficking – Debt bondage – Forced labour – GLAA
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Human trafficking – Debt bondage – Forced labour – GLAA

Human trafficking is the movement of a person from one place to another, within a country or across borders, into conditions of exploitation against their will. It consists of three basic parts: An action – the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a person A means – the threat or use of force or…

131 human trafficking victims reported in 2022 — Labour Ministry | Jordan Times
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131 human trafficking victims reported in 2022 — Labour Ministry | Jordan Times

AMMAN — Thirty-four human trafficking cases involving 131 victims and 152 perpetrators were registered in Jordan in 2022, according to a report issued by the Labour Ministry. The report showed that 181 potential victims of human trafficking were housed in shelter centres in 2022. Moreover, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit at the Public Security Directorate (PSD)…

Kentucky still reaps slavery’s bitter fruit as prisons and jails swell with ‘indentured servants’
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Kentucky still reaps slavery’s bitter fruit as prisons and jails swell with ‘indentured servants’

Kentucky resisted the end of slavery, refusing to certify the 13th Amendment at the time and only freeing people six months after June 19, 1865, the day celebrated as the Juneteenth holiday. Legislators finally ratified the amendment in 1976. And to this day, the state Constitution endorses slavery for one group of citizens: inmates. Reads…