The objective of this research was to modify an extended detention basin to provide batch treatment of stormwater runoff. An automated valve/controller was developed and placed on the outlet of a detention basin in Austin, Texas, which allowed the water quality volume to be retained in the basin for a preset length of time. The influent and effluent of the modified basin were monitored for tota...

Juvenile detention facilities have come under increasing legal pressure to provide mental health services to detainees, and mental health clinicians may be asked to design and implement programs in detention facilities. However, there is little consensus on what types of services should be provided, and virtually no data on the effectiveness of such services in a detention setting. The objectiv...

detention has been taken into staff consideration as a restrictive action since a long time ago. besides quite a few multiple documents are issued in connection with freedom support against detention by human rights defenders and international organization. since illustration of these documents practically display, digging in method of international penal courts such as permanent and temporary ...

Caribbean food imports often face detentions and refusals by the US resulting in a major loss of income. In this paper, we consider a classification procedure based on transvariation probabilities to correctly identify cases that lead to food detention. This is based upon several background variables on fourteen Latin American and Caribbean countries. A method for selecting variables according ...

Detention of irregular migrants awaiting deportation is widely practiced in many countries and has been shown to have profound negative impact on health and well-being of detainees. Detention staff, an integral part of the detention environment, affect and are affected by detainees' health and well-being. The objective of the study was to explore experiences of staff working at Swedish immigrat...

The optimal detention policy for juvenile delinquents presents a challenge to the criminal justice system, which must balance the well-being of the community with that of the juvenile. Detention is often used as a way to protect the community by preventing a juvenile from committing more crimes while awaiting adjudication of the juvenile’s current criminal offense. Detention may however adverse...

The paper presents results from an experimental and numerical study of wind-induced flows and transportation patterns in highway wet detention ponds. The study presented here is part of a general investigation on road runoff and pollution in respect to wet detention ponds. The objective is to evaluate the quality of long term simulations based on historical rain series of the pollutant discharg...

As the total number of persons held within the U.S. immigration detention system has grown, the number of detained persons with severe mental illnesses has grown correspondingly. Reports issued by the government, legal and human rights advocates, and the media have brought to light a problematic and growing detention system with pervasive legal and mental health care disparities. Described are ...

Puthoopparambil, S. J. 2016. Life in Immigration Detention Centers. An exploration of health of immigrant detainees in Sweden and three other EU member states. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1176. 96 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9468-1. Governments around the world use immigration detention to detain and depo...