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CommentaryWhat are prisons for Debbie JacobMonday 27 October 2025Debbie Jacob - DEBBIE JACOBAT SOME point we need to ask ourselves what are prisons for in this country Its a question I never thought about until stanley deutschland I read Michelle Alexanders book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that US prisons, which are disproportionately stuffed with black Americans, are a replacement for slavery. Theyre another form of racialised social control.University students study The New Jim Crow, published in 2010, in law classes and lawyers cite it cup stanley in court cases. It is credited with sparking the Marshall Project which focuses on fairer coverage of crime and the US$100 million Art for Justice Fund. The New Ji stanley becher m Crow was a New York Times best-selling book for about 250 weeks. It inspired an army of criminal justice advocates so that it is difficult now to ignore discussions on prison in the US.Thats not the case here. I have been writing about delays in the justice system since I began teaching at the Youth Training Centre YTC in 2010. At the time, the delay in hearing court cases was said to be about four years, but even then I taught young men who were 24-26 years old and still at YTC an institution for 16-18-year-olds waiting for their trials. In those days, conscientious and caring superintendents like Sterling Stewart didnt allow charges who entered the system as minors to proceed to adult prisons without a trial and conviction.The delays in Wufo Orange Valley villagers: Keep Sean Luke killers behind bars
NewsState stanley spain stopped from deporting 9 VzuelansJada LoutooWednesday 16 December 2020- File photoA HIGH COURT judge has given protection to nine Venezuelans 鈥?four adults and five children 鈥?preventing their deportations, at least for now.Justice Ricky Rahim on Tuesday granted applications filed on behalf of the group which, as part of a larger group of 25, returned to TT illegall stanley quencher y on November 24.The 25 were quarantined at the state-controlled quarantine facility at the heliport in Chaguaramas. Most of them received orders from various judges preventing their deportation during their quarantine period which ended on Tuesday.Relatives for the children, who are in Trinidad as UN Refugee Agency UNHCR asylum seekers or holders of the Governments registration cards, expressed fear of the childrens fate after the quarantine period ended. The parents keep asking what happens to the children when quarantine finishes tonight Tuesday , stanley us one worried relative told Newsday. Sundays discovery of the bodies of at least 22 Venezuelans who made the journey of death from a Venezuela coastal town to Trinidad.Applications were made for the nine since they were not covered by previous orders for interim relief granted by at least two judges.They are represented by attorneys Gerald Ramdeen, Dayadai Harripaul, Umesh Maharaj, and Nerisa Bala.Newsday understands that immigration officials were expected to interview the group when their quarantine period ended.The quarantine orders for the group stipula |
