This paper analyzes the evolution of case law in Turkey concerning compensation unlawful practices administrative detention. Such cases happen when implementation detention is terms right to personal liberty and security, or conditions are against human dignity. The follows an empirical analytical method as analysis built on decisions Turkish Constitutional Court (“CC”) individual applications ...

15 years after Brazil adopted one of Latin America's most progressive juvenile justice laws, substantially reflecting the guarantees contained in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the country's juvenile detention centres continue to be grossly deficient. Many facilities are decaying, filthy, and dangerously overcrowded, failing to meet basic standards of health and hygiene (se...

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...

BACKGROUND The science of treating stormwater pollutants has evolved from simple swales and detention ponds to a whole host of structural and non-structural Best Management Practices (BMPs) promulgated by federal, state, and local authorities. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, required treatment techniques were based upon presumptive criteria that assumed an 80% pollutant reduction of pollutants would ...

, number 5 , May 2016 :e 20154180 In 2011, the United Nations (UN) issued a report calling for the abolishment of solitary confinement for juveniles because it “can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”1 Although there is no universal definition of solitary confinement, the report defines it as “the physical and social isolation of individuals who are confined to their ce...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the use of compulsory detention in the context of a new national tuberculosis (TB) control programme launched in 1997. METHODS A retrospective review was made of the use of compulsory detention in the management of infectious TB before and after the initiation of a new TB control programme, using data from the central TB registry in the Ministry of Health and the charts o...

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 ...

background and objectives: clinicians in many countries increasingly use personal digital assistant (pda) as an assisting tool in clinical practice. the pattern of pda usage by clinicians in iran has not been characterized. this study explored the attitudes of iranian residents and interns toward medical uses of pda.   methods: an interview-based qualitative study was carried out in 2011. a p...