Translation of "Strafvollzugssystem" in English

We're trying to confront bias and discrimination in the administration of criminal justice.

Albania's prison system is below international standards.

Every year, Antigone's Observatory publishes a Report on the Italian penitentiary system.

In this 14th round of talks, the focus was on the justice and penal system.

I've been in the prison correctional system for five years now, and that is exactly what I am, corrected.

As the nation's fifth largest correctional system, we build, own and manage secure correctional facilities.

The EU can contribute to a properly functioning judicial and penitentiary system toback up the police.

This artistic project aims to study the penitentiary system, both architecturally and in its impact on the individual.

These people experience the worst elements of the Irish penal system and this is unacceptable in view of their legal status as innocent citizens.

I think that is an unbelievable intrusion into the democratic and sovereign right of other countries to have a penal system that suits them and their citizens rather than the European Union.

Often, when we address issues of justice, we devote too much time to the penal system, to prisons, to crime-fighting forces, to criminal codes and even to the claims of those in the legal profession.

Furthermore, I must inform you that the Portuguese authorities are continuing to modernise their prison system and to make it more humane, without harbouring the illusion, of course, that they can do overnight everything that has not been done to date.

We already have a mission in the West Bank helping to build up the Palestinian civil police and criminal justice system.

When George W. Bush was governor, a federal judge ruled that the state's entire penal system was pervaded by a "culture of sadistic and malicious violence."

Despite this appalling record, the US occupation authorities in Iraq appointed a former director of the Texas prison system, Lane McCotter, to help set up operations at Abu Ghraib in May 2003.

The benchmarks for assessing the EU-Iran dialogue would refer to all the areas of concern mentioned above, as well as, inter alia, Iran's signing, ratification and implementation of international human rights instruments; co-operation with international human rights procedures and mechanisms; openness, access and transparency; discrimination; the prison system.

The courts, too, into which local police officers bring alleged criminals and the penal system to which the law commits prisoners also must be politically impartial and free from intimidation or duress.

The Council also emphasizes the need to reform and strengthen Haiti's police, judiciary, and correctional systems, and, in this regard, looks forward to the results of the discussions between MINUSTAH and the new authorities on how to address these and other security related issues.

Several more evidence-based approaches, including normative restructuring (e.g. learning that most peers disapprove of use), assertiveness training, motivation and goal-setting, as well as myth correction (on value associations with cannabis), have yet to become established as standard elements of cannabis prevention programmes.

Identifying those at risk and intervening early is recognised as an important component of all drug programmes, and teaching staff may be among the first to identify cannabis among their pupils. Germany, Italy and Poland all have developed programmes for teachers that help them respond to cannabis use and seek specialist help when this is appropriate.

The criminal justice system plays a substantial role in treatment referral in both of these countries but, overall, Member States report that most cannabis users entering treatment in Europe do it on their own initiative.

Healthcare, educational and social policies are becomingmore important in reducing drugrelated problems in thewidest sense, and it is increasingly recognised that thecriminal justice system alone is not always capable ofhandling the problem of drug use.

As the Russian penitentiary system is — like many public institutions — currently subject to a lack of funding and basic material.inputs (food, drags, medical equipment), prisons — often overcrowded and poorly maintained — have virtually become 'incubators' of tuberculosis.

We have not, at this point, chosen to include the areas related to justice, law enforcement and the penitentiary in the table of indicators proposed to Member States, but we will mention them at the close of this chapter and will show how they in some ways constitute ‘negative’ goods.

The EMCDDA has developed mapping studies to assess the information available on the status of drug users in the criminal justice system in the EU.

One of the measures mostcommonly applied across Member States is to avoid or todelay the first prison sentence by diverting young peoplefrom the criminal justice system to an alternative sociohealth programme.