We formed the Non-Violent Action Group, [modeled on SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, pronounced "snick"].
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Non-violent drug offenders make it possible for private prisons to be full—that's why the vast majority of people locked up in private prisons are non-violent drug offenders.
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The same day, Obama commuted hundreds of non-violent drug offenders.
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Matthew Charles served 20 years for a non-violent drug offence.
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Pashinyan calls for a nationwide campaign of non-violent civil disobedience.
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I was suddenly part of this collective non-violent creative resistance.
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But we need a Gandhi to win a non-violent fight.
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"He's a non-violent offender," Faircloth's wife Amber told VICE News.
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That's what this charge is about, paperwork, a non-violent crime.
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Dana was incarcerated for the non-violent crime of grand larceny.
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NON-VIOLENT demonstration and you think they need to see empty shells?!
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During that time, she participated in non-violent protests against government policy.
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The organizations help people expunge non-violent marijuana convictions from their records.
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The point of doing it is to cause a non-violent disturbance.
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It's shockingly non-violent for the first major death of the season.
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Non-violent felons have their rights restored after they complete their sentences.
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This kind of thing makes me feel the opposite of non-violent.
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Stackable found that many women inmates were first-time, non-violent offenders.
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The non-violent end to the standoff won plaudits on social media.
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Charges: Johnson was given a life sentence for non-violent drug charges.
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Our goal is to drive them out through mass non-violent protests.
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But the lobby still offers a non-violent playfulness that's rare in shooters.
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Snoop says he's a non-violent person and was raised better than that.
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These protest have generally started off as "very peaceful, non-violent," said Norman.
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Pence also raised concerns about arrests of other non-violent activists in Egypt.
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Until now, the independence movement has been impeccably non-violent, albeit constantly provocative.
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When the fan responded by objecting to Chastain's promotion of non-violent protests.
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And we urge you to stay on the path of non-violent protest.
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Many states have eliminated prison sentences for low-level or non-violent offenders.
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Even despots know that locking up mouthy but non-violent dissidents is disreputable.
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Now he's working to reduce the prison sentences of other non-violent offenders.
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This, they said, would involve "loud, visible, mass non violent actions and protests".
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Crime has dramatically fallen over the past decade — both violent and non-violent.
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A growing number of states are including some low-level, non-violent felonies.
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Moore had each been disciplined for minor, non-violent incidents in the past.
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Similarly, we need to consider sentencing alternatives to incarceration for non-violent offenders.
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Ghanem says protesters have been taking deliberate steps to keep protests non-violent.
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"Nobody&aposs destiny should hinge on a minor non-violent offense," said de Blasio.
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A study of Hong Kong's non-violent resistance is a good place to start.
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Baked Alaska shot video as his fellow marchers viciously assaulted non-violent counter protesters.
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Johnson was serving a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense.
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In 2017, Saudi Arabia carried out 146 executions, 59 for non-violent drug crimes.
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We've seen Morgan transform from a non-violent pacifist to a vengeance-seeking murderer.
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But — surprise, surprise — Felix's initial promise of a non-violent cartel doesn't pan out.
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However, at that time, YouTube rowed back from taking down non-violent extremist content.
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" She tells me, "Bernie Sanders was our last chance for a non-violent revolution.
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The Russian government makes no distinction between non-violent Salafis and the radical underground.
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Tunisian politicians were awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for achieving non-violent change.
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They called for continued non-violent resistance and for the European Union to intervene.
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They named their security team "Please Force," a nod to their non-violent intentions.
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Charlie Crist enacted clemency reforms that automatically restored voting rights to non-violent offenders.
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Yet, the Khoury's continue to brew as a peaceful non-violent way of resistance.
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Video recordings show police beating journalists and non-violent protesters holding their hands up.
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It would also give judges more discretion in how they sentence non-violent offenders.
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Massive non-violent demonstrations in Armenia forced that country's leader to resign in 2018.
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I've seen many low-level, non-violent drug offenders receive more time behind bars.
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She also has benefited from laws in some states that spare non-violent offenders time.
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Prior to 1776, these types of non-violent protests had been suppressed by the British.
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This is evident in the frightening statistics about the jailing of non-violent drug offenders.
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A counter-protest began across the street; video shows a noisy but non-violent confrontation.
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In practice, it's been able to reduce thousands of sentences for non-violent federal prisoners.
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I intend to keep it as peaceful and non-violent, on my end, as possible.
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Stone is likely to get far less time as a first-time non-violent offender.
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The book's cover describes it as "a blueprint for non-violent resistance to repressive regimes".
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Here are seven delightfully non-violent games to help you find your smile again today.
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Johnson had been sentenced to life in prison in 1996 on non-violent drug charges.
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LUCHA advocates for social justice and democratic governance through non-partisan and non-violent actions.
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That includes people who have been convicted of non-violent sex crimes like public masturbation.
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He could commute the sentences of federal prisoners convicted of non-violent offenses by 85033%.
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Like the others, it promises to be non-partisan, non-violent, and inclusive of all.
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Democratic Tsunami says it is non-violent but has not said who runs the group.
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Its Centre for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies trains democracy activists around the world.
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These are mostly inmates who are serving long terms for non-violent -- mostly drug -- offenses.
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And of the Ring-attributable arrests that did happen, many were for low-level non-violent property crimes: Of the arrests that police connected to Ring, most were for low-level non-violent property crimes, according to interviews and police records reviewed by NBC.
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His 2008 installation in Dublin, Ireland Tunick wants this to be an inclusive, non-violent event.
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This is a major change from the Obama policy of ignoring most non-violent immigration offenders.
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Choose some flicks that are relatively non-violent/non-sexually explicit and give the parents headphones.
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With VINE, that means non-violent victims of crime are detained, released, and outed to abusers.
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The protesters held banners which read: "the planet is hotter than your mum" and "non violent".
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They were made up of 9,500 officers, many trained in non-violent policing and human rights.
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Donning Che Guevara-style fatigues, he went around the country on foot, preaching non-violent protest.
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Food is plentiful, electricity is available, and the only other humans who appear seem non-violent.
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Wyoming's Republican-controlled legislature last year restored voting rights to felons convicted of non-violent crimes.
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I didn't think it was moral to incarcerate people for non-violent crimes like marijuana possession.
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Mr Qadri's sympathisers come from the usually non-violent Barelvi movement, Sunnis heavily influenced by Sufism.
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Sometimes two countries connect through fire pop songs after destroying another country in non-violent competition.
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The question is whether non-violent Islamism acts as a barrier to jihadists, or a gateway.
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Ms. Johnson was set to serve life in prison for a non-violent drug offense. pic.twitter.
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The video showing O'Rourke speaking in defense of the players' "non-violent protests" attracted national attention.
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Another task is to tease out the relationship between non-violent and violent far-right extremism.
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For years he led non-violent protests against logging projects, including sit-ins and human blockades.
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Newkirk on Wednesday said Democracy Spring is "hardcore committed to non-violent discipline" during its events.
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In a speech at Victoria Hall, Gandhi discussed his non-violent views through an unexpected metaphor.
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A lot of them are first-time offenders, a lot of them are non-violent crimes.
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Men with these profiles have less empathy and are more self-centered than non-violent men.
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But the Extinction Rebellion protests seemed to have been non-violent and carefully planned, he added.
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"Corrections Department" is a quintessential oxymoron when it comes to non-violent drug dealers or offenders.
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He earned several stints in prison in the ensuing years for non-violent, drug-related charges.
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Twenty years would have been absurd for a 69-year-old, first time, non-violent offender.
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Video footage posted on social media show police beating non-violent protesters holding their hands up.
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Bernie Sanders, another 2020 rival, said at a CNN town hall last month that he supported non-violent and violent offenders being able to vote during their prison sentences, O'Rourke said the nation should "rethink" non-violent offenders losing their voting rights while serving their jail time.
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As of June 26, 2018, non-violent civil disobedience remains a punishable exercise of First Amendment rights.
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In 2018, by an overwhelming margin, voters in Florida restored voting rights to non-violent ex-felons.
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During the first intifada, Barghouti was a strong supporter of the peace process and non-violent resistance.
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At best, courage is self-sacrificing, non-violent, modest and based on universal principles—and immensely powerful.
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Lots of non-violent people share at least some of the extremists' concerns, albeit in milder form.
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"We stand with them, and join them in working towards a non-violent future," the company said.
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It aims to use non-violent civil disobedience to force governments to cut carbon emissions more quickly.
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Verdict: If there's any group against which Gandhi's brand of non-violent protest wouldn't work, it's ISIS.
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Last summer, he commuted long prison sentences for 46 inmates serving time for non-violent drug offences.
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"Non-violent offenders in states where it is legal, in my opinion, should be released," she says.
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Getting 20 or 30 years or even a life sentence for non-violent drug offenses is wrong.
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Fatah's own "youth" broke up non-violent action against the Israelis under the leadership of Yasser Arafat.
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"What we can assure is that the death specifically derived from a non-violent cause," Estavillo said.
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And if anyone were confused, my long history of non-violent policy advocacy would resolve the question.
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"We stand with them, and join them in working towards a non-violent future," the statement reads.
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It will also hold talks, workshops, training in non-violent direct action, family-friendly activities and debates.
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Legalizing the drug will also keep people from going to prison for non-violent crimes, he argued.
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Jails should release non-violent pretrial detainees who languish in jail simply because they cannot afford bail.
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Though violence is celebrated as the preeminent tactic, they're willing to endorse non-violent means as well.
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"I firmly condemn these incidents," added Prudhomme, who insisted that most of cycling fans were non-violent.
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In 1997, Alice was sentenced to life in prison as a first-time non-violent drug offender.
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He has now spent more time behind bars than any non-violent juvenile offender in Michigan history.
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Some were trained in non-violent civil disobedience training Wednesday night, according to the Women's March twitter account.
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"We stand with them, and join them in working towards a non-violent future," the company tweeted Monday.
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The new state law allows nearly all non-violent defendants to be released without monetary bail pending trial.
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The idea that Gandhi goes non-violent, he respects, but fasting and hunger strikes are never the way.
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"Every non-violent uprising since 1900, if it achieves that threshold, succeeds in its aims," said Paluch-Machnik.
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"This type of non-violent protest is not disrespectful as some have suggested," Williams said in a statement.
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It's ridiculous that they attack me because of my involvement in that non-violent klan four decades ago.
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"Hong Kong can't lose its nerve—Beijing must be dealt with in a non-violent way," Lau said.
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Many of the Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar have denied the claim, insisting the group is non-violent.
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But it has become clear that for non-violent offenders, merely sentencing them to long terms is ineffective.
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"Liu Xiaobo was the true embodiment of the democratic, non-violent ideals he so ardently advocated," Zeid said.
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As President, Obama granted 1,715 commutations for non-violent drug offenders -- more than the past 12 presidents combined.
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As time went on, he also agreed with Malcolm X that non-violent protest would get blacks nowhere.
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In some prisons, it also has meant more mixing of violent and non-violent inmates and fewer guards.
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Johnson was given the sentence in 1996 over non-violent drug offenses she had committed several years earlier.
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Fawcett led a peaceful campaign for equal rights including petitions, lobbying members of parliament and non-violent protests.
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Countless innocent and non-violent people would be imprisoned while waiting for suspicions and allegations to be disproven.
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These choices are dark, and meant to make you feel conflicted about the game's definition of non-violent.
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In the largest mass commutation in US history, at least 462 non-violent inmates were released, officials said.
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Both of us came to D.C. and engaged in non-violent civil disobedience to fight for our lives.
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In its FAQ, Lowell Cafe says it gives "special employment consideration" to recently pardoned, non-violent cannabis offenders.
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The majority of the cases we see are non-violent, first-time offenders serving 20 years to life.
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Saad, a non-violent activist, was shuttled between interrogation centers before being transferred to Saydnaya prison in 2012.
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And of the almost 700,000 people released from prison each year, many were convicted of non-violent crimes.
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He was in the White County jail for a non-violent probation violation, and has since been released.
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Recent laws have addressed terrible prison overcrowding by ordering the release of a number of non-violent criminals.
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He has a rap sheet in nearby Mobile county, comprised of mostly of non-violent offenses, according to AL.com.
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In the wake of their get together, Trump commuted the life sentence of non-violent offender Alice Marie Johnson.
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He became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India through his non-violent approach.
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Two essential ingredients, especially for a frequently forgotten place like Togo, are mass, non-violent protests and international pressure.
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But at least it is not violent, if "not exactly non-violent", in the words of an intellectual sympathiser.
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The worry is that even non-violent Islamists treat elections as a tactic: one man, one vote, one time.
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He was found guilty of NON Violent offenses and served his time complying with all prison guidelines and procedures.
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Thousands of Black mothers arrested for non-violent offenses sit in jail simply because they can not afford bail.
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But the idea is for this to expand to takedowns of other non-violent videos from other listed extremists.
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Even the non-violent tactics of Mohandas Gandhi temporarily struck him as simplistic when white terrorists threatened his life.
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His attorney-general, Eric Holder, told federal prosecutors to avoid seeking the maximum penalties for non-violent drug offenders.
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Democratic Party leaders condemned Waters&apos statement on that, and Waters maintains that she advocates non-violent confrontations only.
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She said those kind of past experiences indicated bipartisan opposition to hard-line sentencing for non-violent drug crimes.
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Harsono estimated Hizbut Tahrir have about 40,000 members in Indonesia, who have called for change through non-violent means.
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Look at people like John Lewis, who's kind of my role model when it comes to non-violent protest.
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She has proposed reforms to criminal justice that would lead to fewer non-violent offenders ending up in jail.
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As Stackable began meeting the women in prison, she learned many of them were first-time, non-violent offenders.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) said he will push legislation to remove criminal penalties for non-violent offenders caught with marijuana.
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Obama is expected to commute the sentences of several hundred more non-violent drug offenders before he leaves office.
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Kind of incredible that the non-violent protester was willing to go through such lengths to check on Sofia.
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They're also portraits of cult heroes, as certain non-violent thieves gained a kind of respect among some Mexicans.
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It also contains provisions that aim to help non-violent inmates become rehabilitated so they can re-enter society.
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An announcement over a mosque loudspeaker urged protesters to stay non-violent and not attempt to cross police barricades.
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They included Moses and a small band of colleagues in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee who joined him.
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The First Step Act gives non-violent offenders the chance to re-enter society as productive, law-abiding citizens.
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Pakistan denies this and says it only provides diplomatic and moral support to non-violent separatists in the region.
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Instead, they portray non-violent Islamists as "moderates" within Islam and wrongly reduce all Islamism into mere violent Islamism.
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Speaking before the hearing, Law slammed prosecutors for branding the participants of the non-violent Occupy movement as thugs.
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And that is true whether the person is convicted of a non-violent drug crime or something more serious.
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I respect people's right to protest in a safe and non-violent manner and to have their voices heard.
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In a 63 ruling, he backed a decision that said non-violent felons enjoyed the right to carry a weapon.
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Ah, Thanksgiving, a day to put our cooking skills and our aptitude for non-violent conflict resolution to the test.
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She wants to lock up fewer non-violent offenders, expand the provision of early education and introduce paid parental leave.
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The state also uses problem-solving courts that aim to correct non-violent offenders' behaviour without recourse to jail time.
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There are many reasons why locking up non-violent drug offenders for long periods is a bad idea (see article).
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About three quarters of the sentences were given to minorities and most were for non-violent offences, the report said.
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I want to educate students and prepare and train them in the tradition of the non-violent civil rights movement.
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As long as we are doing it in a very educational, non-violent way, then he's absolutely okay with it.
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I voted for the hundreds of thousands and black non-violent criminals incarcerated as a result of the mandatory minimums.
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It's a low-security facility (think Orange Is the New Black's Litchfield) and houses mostly criminals with non-violent crimes.
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BDS activists describe their campaign as a non-violent Palestinian-led international movement, inspired by South African anti-apartheid activism.
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In Florida, voters will decide whether to restore voting rights for non-violent felons who've finished their sentences and parole.
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The initiative aimed for sentencing policies focusing on criminals that posed a serious threat instead of non-violent drug offenders.
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Reducing stiff jail sentences for people convicted of non-violent drug crimes is gaining more support among Republican voters. Sen.
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John Lewis was trained and trained others to be completely, righteously non-violent in the face of literally being attacked.
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He was the first person jailed under new rules that made some forms of non-violent protest a criminal offense.
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" Democracy advocates in Hong Kong, where Liu's activism continues to resonate strongly, vowed to "continue our fearless non-violent protests.
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In 123 eight in ten women prisoners were jailed for non-violent offences, compared with seven in ten male prisoners.
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Quite a few other members of the UVF felt the same way and committed themselves to finding non-violent solutions.
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Democratic Tsunami, which advocates non-violent actions, called on supporters to hold festive events across the region on Saturday afternoon.
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The movement's musicians, writers, and activists developed an alternative vision of girlhood—non-violent, anti-consumerist, and celebratory of girls.
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Additionally, methamphetamines remain prevalent and the threat of cocaine — a drug some now also view as non-violent — has rebounded.
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Non-violent, internal opponents of the Iranian regime would most likely be hurt more than helped by overt US support.
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He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his non-violent opposition to the apartheid regime in South Africa.
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As a corporate lawyer, Barnett worked pro bono to represent clients serving decades-long sentences for non-violent drug offenses.
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There is an element of non-violent protest being weaponized against an opponent when you're running it via an app.
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I found that this "strategy" of arresting low-level, non-violent sellers and users can even make the problem worse.
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Capital crimes include "insulting the Prophet", same-sex relations, adultery and non-violent drug offences, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Capital crimes include "insulting the Prophet", same-sex relations, adultery and non-violent drug offences, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Mahatma Gandhi was an activist who fought for civil rights, India's independence, and religious freedom by practicing non-violent protests.
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The non-violent civil disobedience group plans to block 12 areas around Westminster, where many key government buildings are located.
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Representing a widespread, non-violent tactic of the suffrage movement, the poster campaigns intended to represent a range of women.
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To be a psychiatrist and diagnose the patient, come up with a treatment and then stage a non-violent intervention?
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As pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement and advocates for justice, they championed non-violent protest and worked towards peace.
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Fellow Mormon Glenn Beck also criticized Bundy's interpretation of scripture during the standoff, claiming genuine Mormon practice must be non-violent:
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Stone shouldn't be thrown in a cage for 7-9 years — and neither should any other first-time non-violent offender.
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This move means that many non-violent criminals could be jailed and a return to mass incarceration for people of color.
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Animal Rebellion, a group inspired by Extinction Rebellion's non-violent civil disobedience climate activism, also is pushing for diets without meat.
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He is a fierce advocate of non-violent struggle driven by idealism and a vision for a free and democratic Ethiopia.
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The actor went on to question the way in which non-violent drug abusers are punished under the current prison system.
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However, he indicated he could potentially support policy to restore other civil rights to former felons convicted of non-violent crimes.
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In 2014 Californians passed Proposition 47, which downgraded a variety of "non-serious, non-violent" crimes to misdemeanours instead of felonies.
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Pashteen says PTM believes in non-violent protest as a way to secure the rights of Pashtuns and other marginalized groups.
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Non-violent conflict resolution runs through Harry Potter, meanwhile, while Trump's keen on waterboarding and has been accused of inciting violence.
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And he rejects the view the law unfairly catches non-violent addicts who are simply feeding their addiction by selling drugs.
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The way levelling works in Ark: Survival Evolved is that you can either earn experience by violent or non-violent means.
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So the government is turning its attention to the sort of non-violent extremism that creates conditions for the violent kind.
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Both coaches Jim Harbaugh and Coach Mark Dantonio defended their players and their right to engage in silent non-violent protests.
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He told the crowd that he thinks there is enough bipartisan support to reform mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenders.
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"Currently, the courts are clogged with cases of non-violent drug offenses," according to the state Legislative Analyst's Office ballot summary.
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The non-violent arm of the Civil Rights Movement was propelled by the belief that a higher power was backing it.
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Its lifting is a victory for non-violent Salafists, who say they are unfairly tarred with the jihadi brush in France.
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Dozens of protestors in Rasht staged a non-violent sit-in in the face of oncoming security forces mounted on motorcycles.
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The administration freed non-violent drug offenders whose sentences had been set under more punitive guidelines than they would face today.
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The war on drugs was in full force, and incarceration rates for non-violent crimes skyrocketed, disproportionally impacting communities of color.
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Stanton and Anthony were the most effective and long-lasting leaders of the largest non-violent revolution in our nation's history.
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"Non-violent and democratic protests will continue alongside the legal battle," All Assam Students Union general secretary Lorinjyoti Gogoi told Reuters.
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Paperny founded the company White Collar Advice, which advises people facing time in federal prisons for non-violent and financial crimes.
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Sessions advised federal prosecutors to utilize laws permitting capital punishment as a viable sentence, both in violent and non-violent cases.
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In 22019, Texas got smart and increased the availability of drug addiction and mental health treatment for non-violent drug offenders.
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It says it has no leaders, and uses non-violent direct action to call attention to climate change and biodiversity loss.
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There are about 500,000 people in this country incarcerated today for non-violent drug offenses, disproportionately of course, people of color.
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The secessionists have been around for decades, but operated underground and had been largely non-violent until a few weeks ago.
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"I respect people's right to protest in a safe and non-violent manner and to have their voices heard," she wrote.
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Expressing resistance to oppression and Occupation through poetry is by nature non-violent and should not be criminalized by any government.
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South Carolina, no American liberal's idea of a model, has pursued a notably enlightened reform to the sentencing of non-violent offenders.
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At the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday, three women protesters testified on Vanny's behalf, saying guards had beaten non-violent protesters.
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In doing this non-violent action, I wanted to send a positive message and show these people that Muslims are peaceful people.
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In recent months Hamas has begun to praise non-violent resistance, a big step for a group psychologically wedded to political violence.
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Obama has said he wants to imbue the justice system with more fairness, including reforming mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes.
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The first "non-violent direct action" will be on June 18th, followed by another ten days of action starting on July 1st.
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He went to India in 1948, at arguably the peak of segregation in the states, to learn more about non-violent protest.
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Prosecutors tell us she completed a "sufficient amount" of classes, and because it was a non-violent offense ... they dismissed the charges.
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Yet about half of all federal prisoners are non-violent drug offenders for whom prison may not be the most effective solution.
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Obama urged congressional leaders to move on a package of bills reducing sentences for non-violent drug offenders after the November elections.
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They argue this would create more of a public safety hazard and lead to more arrests of non-violent undocumented immigrant arrests.
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If tough on crime meant sending a lot of people to prison, including non-violent offenders, I had no chance of winning.
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In a courtyard of a government building, he filmed a message calling for non-violent opposition to Rajoy's takeover of the region.
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High-tech fences haven't kept out drugs or deterred the violence associated with their distribution, but legal, non-violent competitors just might.
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Violent Islamism may have limited appeal, but the more fiercely the non-violent version is repressed, the more appealing extremist jihad seems.
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The protesters say their non-violent efforts have been met by brutal police tactics, and their weapons are needed to protect themselves.
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Using their lobbying skills, these groups are "educating" lawmakers on the benefits of not locking up non-violent offenders for lengthy sentences.
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The protesters say their non-violent efforts have been met by brutal police tactics, and their weapons are needed to protect themselves.
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It only strengthens the belief in the Muslim world that there's a Western conspiracy against the region's non-violent Sunni Muslim majority.
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Perhaps the prospect of subverting the airport security apparatus—in a non-violent but hella determined way—was sexually stimulating to me.
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The rapper reads the story of Norman Brown, a former inmate who was given a life sentence for non-violent drug offenses.
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Bakradze said the opposition's actions would be non-violent, although he did not rule out blocking entrances to parliament again next week.
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Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, who also joined the rally, called for strengthening and promoting the culture of non-violent movements.
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Through non-violent civil disobedience, King leveraged social-justice transformation in American civil society even when institutions, including the church, largely disagreed.
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"Long sentences for low-level, non-violent drug offenses do not promote public safety, deterrence, and rehabilitation," Holder wrote in the memo.
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"I hope that the high echelons of the (ruling) Republican Party will unequivocally recognise the popular velvet and non-violent revolution," he said.
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Michaels filed suit in Nevada challenging a U.S. law that bars him from buying a firearm due to prior non-violent criminal convictions.
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" Another on the Infowars website blared: "NON-VIOLENT, PEACEFUL PROTESTERS PUNCH TRUMP SUPPORTER: More evidence of the hypocrisy coming out of the left.
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Indeed, just last August, he issued a public statement decrying President Obama's decision to mass commute the sentences of non-violent drug offenders.
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Overall, fewer than half of those polled agreed that people should be allowed to express non-violent opinions even if they offend minorities.
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There have been few arrests and injuries during the non-violent gatherings that have taken place in dozens of cities around the country.
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Last year, the kingdom executed 149 people, most of them drug smugglers convicted of non-violent crimes, according to Amnesty's most recent figures.
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Last month, 62-year-old Alice Marie Johnson had her life sentence for a non-violent, first time drug offense commuted by Trump.
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Tatour said her poem was misunderstood by the Israeli authorities as it was not a call for violence, rather for non-violent struggle.
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While violent crime has been on the decline, some non-violent crimes have been rising like one of the city's hills (see chart).
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It had a skate punk aesthetic, and was decidedly non-violent; instead of shooting bullets, players hit each other with splashes of ink.
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He called for non-violent protests and said that he will contest the result at Kenya's supreme court, rather than on the streets.
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In a statement reported by People, Omari's publicist called the allegations "blatantly false" and insisted that the actor was a non-violent person.
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Police, again, should begin to target violent crime and alternatives to incarceration should increasingly be offered to non-violent and low-level offenders.
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Kim has been on a remarkable mission -- alongside multiple high-powered attorneys -- to help non-violent drug offenders get early releases from prisons.
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Instead of housing non-violent inmates, we could be allocating those funds for infrastructure or education; we could be improving our nation's future.
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As we first reported ... police also blame jail overcrowding, and new laws that put non-violent offenders back on the streets much sooner.
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We must get rid of intractable mandatory minimum sentences for drug users, the kind that treat non-violent addicts the same as kingpins.
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"In the digital era, robbing a bank is a non-violent act, less risky, and the reward is higher than ever," they wrote.
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India accuses Pakistan of funding armed militants, along with separatist groups in India's portion of the region considered non-violent by international observers.
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But if we do opt to use social emotional intelligence training, we will prepare each student to live a successful, non-violent life.
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After the hearing, two dozen landowners and other pipeline opponents vowed non-violent civil disobedience if the commission rules in favor of TransCanada.
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If Stone is convicted, under U.S. sentencing guidelines he would likely face much less jail time as a first-time non-violent offender.
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Since then, five Dallas police officers were killed by gunman Micah Johnson, who targeted officers patrolling a non-violent Black Lives Matter march.
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Infectious music and a zany story keep things moving along, but Katamari's appeal is all about the raw joy of non-violent chaos.
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The Brotherhood says it is a non-violent movement and denies any relationship to violent insurgencies waged by al Qaeda and Islamic State.
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These are families that we visit on a weekly basis, we encourage them to adopt healthy behaviors, non-violent conflict resolution, business consulting.
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"It was our first high-risk, non-violent civil disobedience action," said Marla Marcum, who provided on-shore support for the two men.
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The President spoke movingly of the case of Alice Johnson, sentenced to life in prison as a first-time non-violent drug offender.
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"It was likely speaking to the so-called peaceful, rational, non-violent people who were unsatisfied with the governments response before," he said.
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Nationally, about 13% of people incarcerated are in prison for a non-violent, drug-related crime, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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The federal system has announced no policy regarding releasing low-risk prisoners or slowing the influx of new low-level, non-violent offenders.
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Launched in 2005, BDS is a non-violent, human-rights-based movement created with the endorsement of more than 170 Palestinian civil organizations.
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Some protesters threw bottles and rocks at riot police but multiple video recordings show police beating non-violent protesters holding their hands up.
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"If Van Dyke is not convicted we are calling for a Peaceful Non-Violent SHUT DOWN of the City," Pfleger said via Twitter.
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On Saturday he called on supporters to continue protests and to organize big, non-violent demonstrations in the capital Yerevan on May 1.
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HRW says it does not support boycotts of Israel but does defend the right of activists to engage in such non-violent protests.
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Any clemency, Sanchez said, would be aimed toward farmers, drug couriers and other non-violent lawbreakers caught up in the trade – not assassins.
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When should police be notified for non-violent offenses and what should be submitted as evidence, potentially staying with students for their entire lives?
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But Jividen said she and her colleagues still plan to go after drug dealers, along with a wide variety of other non-violent criminals.
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Psychopathic criminals are sometimes divided into the 'white-collar' type, who tend to commit non-violent crimes such as fraud, and the violent type.
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He has talked of giving amnesty to members of drug gangs, then clarified that he meant mainly poppy farmers and other non-violent folk.
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Wexler's defense attorneys contend that their client is a non-violent satirical blogger whose postings are "core political speech" protected under the First Amendment.
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She doesn't really mention legalization, but she recognizes that non-violent drug crimes are a huge part of the reason American incarcerates its citizens.
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And I am so happy that Kim is staying focused because there are so many others just like me who of non-violent offenders.
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This is in large part because in 2013 the cash-strapped government cut the sentences of non-violent prisoners and decriminalised several other offences.
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Instead, Obama has relied on his 2014 clemency initiative to advance his goal of shortening sentences for non-violent offenders he views as unjust.
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"Only through democratic and non-violent change will it be possible to overcome the current social and economic tragedy afflicting all Venezuelans," it said.
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Alice joined "TMZ Live" Monday to talk about Kim's continued efforts and success in getting non-violent drug offenders out from under life sentences.
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He's breaking records for the sheer number of pardons and commuted sentences he's ordered, especially for Americans still imprisoned for non-violent drug crimes.
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Then would it not be reasonable to assume that some of those non-violent prisoners could potential become radicalized during their time in prison?
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Meanwhile, the FARC will hold their tenth, and presumably last, congress as an armed group before transforming themselves into a non-violent political party.
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All the leaders had argued the protests were intended as peaceful, non-violent civil disobedience, only to benefit society and make positive democratic progress.
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Much growth was driven by "tough on crime" laws passed in the 1980s and 1990s, which sent even non-violent drug offenders to jail.
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Jeb Bush will embrace lowering mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug crimes and increased reliance on drug courts that prioritize recovery over punishment.
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In one poignant scene, he is scolded by Osama bin Laden for giving (correct) non-violent answers to a pop-quiz on Islamic punishments.
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The Brotherhood says it is a non-violent movement and denies any relationship to violent insurgencies waged by al Qaeda and Islamic State militants.
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The ruling party was worried that the highly democratic nature of non-violent mass participation could undermine its vise-like grip on Palestinian power.
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On balance the stats he cites are largely accurate, yet the fact is more than half of those crimes are non-violent in nature.
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The bill would also bar schools from punishing students for revealing a non-violent conduct violation, such as drinking, when they report sexual violence.
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Our leaders should create alternatives to prison for non-violent, lower-level offenses in addition to supporting legislation that reduces the length of sentences.
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A new city ordinance signed last year eliminates the cash bail system for people with pending non-violent misdemeanor charges or city ordinance violations.
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Thousands of Brotherhood supporters including Mursi are in jail and Egypt has designated the group, which says it is non-violent, a terrorist organization.
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"Ahed Tamimi exemplifies the spirit of non-violent resistance that is growing in the Palestinian territories because of the occupation," Mustafa Barghouti told CNN.
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In prisons and jails—which are often overcrowded, unsanitary, and filled with people charged with non-violent crimes—disease spreads rapidly throughout incarcerated populations.
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Trump also said that The White House is considering releasing elderly and non-violent federal prisoners in order to stem the spread of disease.
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We must continue in direct action and non-violent civil disobedience to shame those who have voted wrongly…We must organize on all fronts.
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The Scholl siblings soon formed a non-violent resistance group called The White Rose along with friends Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Christoph Probst.
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The Moscow protests, the largest since 2012, have demonstrated that Vladimir Putin is running out of non-violent means of sustaining himself in power.
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Arns says they selected Dammeck's Unabomber cabin and manifesto selections to note how vigilantes can be violent, like Kaczynski, and non-violent, like Anonymous.
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The legislation also aims to establish programs to head off repeat offenders and protect first-time non-violent offenders from harsh mandatory minimum sentences.
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In Ohio's Cuyahoga County, 200 low-risk, non-violent incarcerated people were released on Saturday in an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus.
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Hundreds of non-violent inmates in Ohio are being released early, many to house arrests, because of concerns that coronavirus will spread within jails.
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The parliamentary speaker has called the president's sacking of the prime minister to bring a former leader back to power a non-violent coup.
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However, officials supervising releases in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and other major cities say they are releasing only low-level, non-violent offenders.
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He said that in most minimum-security prisons, like the one Loughlin could enter if she&aposs convicted, are designed for non-violent offenders.
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They were part of Freedom Summer, a campaign organized mainly by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, to register black voters in the state.
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Now many of those same European countries are being critical of the U.S. decision to kill Soleimani as opposed to pursuing non-violent methods.
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It influenced tons of creators to create similar games that combine intimate and realistic theming with quiet, contemplative, and self-consciously non-violent play.
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Despite bipartisan support for reform of mandatory minimum sentences for some non-violent federal drug offenders, legislation addressing the issue has stalled in Congress.
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There are ways to react that are non-violent and allow them to actually feel the full range of emotions that human beings feel.
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The first wave of non-violent protests against President Bashir began four months ago, on December 19, after the government trebled the price of bread.
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Serra said Almena also is eligible for a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sentence reduction because involuntary manslaughter charges are classified as non-violent.
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While Otisville has a medium-security prison for violent crimes, Cohen will reportedly be at its minimum-security satellite camp for non-violent criminal offenders.
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Working closely with King, he helped organized the 1963 March on Washington and was a part of King's larger movement of non-violent civil disobedience.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Nearly one million protesters flooded the streets of Santiago, Chile, on Friday, October 25, for a non-violent rally.
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"After the non-violent, velvet popular revolution in April-May this year, power in Armenia is finally returning to people," Pashinyan told lawmakers on Thursday.
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Some have gone as far to call Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization, despite the fact that the movement is non-violent at its core.
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This weekend, Newkirk, who describes Democracy Spring as being "hardcore committed to non-violent discipline," helped lead a protestor training session at the Chicago summit.
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Dastis has defended the actions of Spanish police who used batons and rubber bullets to disperse non-violent protesters at polling stations on Oct. 1.
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Moving forward, as legalization gathers steam across the states, do you think the president should pardon people with criminal records for non-violent drug convictions?
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Pardons and commutations Obama action: Obama has reduced the sentences for more than 1,000 non-violent drug criminals and pardoned more than a hundred more.
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Harris did not elaborate on how she would choose which non-violent offenders she would pardon, or how she would use the powers more broadly.
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Launched in London, Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that orchestrates mass non-violent civil disobedience campaigns to raise awareness of issues of climate change.
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Efforts on Capitol Hill to change laws to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders have stalled amid the race for the Nov.
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The group's strategy will also target a mainstream audience, with family friendly, non-violent games that should go down well with the "Angry Birds" generation.
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The hate crime designations work best for prosecutors trying property crimes or non-violent crimes because it takes less to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin lowers the minimum mandatory sentence for non-violent, drug-related crimes, while also enhancing penalties for several serious violent crimes.
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Even those with up to four points on their criminal record could qualify for less than the minimum sentence where there are non-violent crimes.
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You can face the fact that violence is happening, see it within us and insist on being non-violent in your writing and your work.
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During campaign speeches, I acknowledged the importance of being tough on violent crime, but also highlighted the reasons to be smart on non-violent crimes.
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Why it matters: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) claims the Games are meant to contribute to "a peaceful and better world" through non-violent competition.
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The violence is the most serious incident in a long-running confrontation between the authorities and the PTM, which has vowed to remain non-violent.
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I have learned from my past actions and the actions of others, and I am totally committed to addressing difference in a non-violent manner.
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States like Wisconsin have even expanded work-release programs, allowing people with non-violent convictions to hold jobs outside of prison and earn a wage.
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If passed, the ballot measure would permit "non-violent marijuana related activity" for North Dakotans aged 21 and up, according to the Grand Forks Herald.
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West is married to Kim Kardashian, the reality TV star who recently met with Trump to urge him to pardon a non-violent drug offender.
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Alice Johnson, a woman who was serving a life sentence for non-violent drug and money laundering charges until Trump granted her clemency last year.
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" The group adds on its website that it is a "non-violent rebellion against the U.S. government for its criminal inaction on the ecological crisis.
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BDS leaders reject the Israeli accusations, saying that their campaign is a non-violent protest movement opposed to all forms of discrimination, including anti-Semitism.
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Especially beloved is the 10-pound tamandua — the diminutive cousin of the giant anteater — which makes for a cuddly, non-violent companion in many states.
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She also rejected the defendants' claim that the law's name deprived them of due process by effectively branding them "terrorists" for their non-violent activity.
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Both Duque and Petro say corrupt officials should serve time behind bars, instead of the house arrest sentences often handed out to non-violent offenders.
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While the band's lyrics tend to be violent—and some Juggalos have engaged in criminal behavior—Juggalos as a whole are a non-violent bunch.
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" The meeting had a profound effect on her and she made a conscious decision to dedicate the rest of her life to "non-violent agriculture.
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That leaves out boyfriends and girlfriends, failed dates, friends, or crushes — even stalkers, as it excludes those who have only a non-violent misdemeanor offense.
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To break down the image of the moral high ground that these institutions sought to maintain, they would instigate violent responses using non-violent bait.
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There were also many non-violent Nazi hunters who devoted their lives to tracking down war criminals, building a case, and bringing them to court.
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He led many non-violent protests, including the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
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Many of the protesters interviewed at university campuses over the past week expressed a sense of futility, saying non-violent opposition was not proving effective.
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For example, ATF would have discretion to restore the Second Amendment rights of a non-violent felon who has been law-abiding for many years.
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A majority of Americans (56 percent) also support sealing non-violent criminal records after people complete their sentences to facilitate their successful reentry into society.
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Butler said he wanted to bring the types of non-violent tactics championed by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. into the criminal justice system.
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Your nephew might be trapped in a deadly, violent cult or he might be living in peace with an extreme, but non-violent, community of radicals.
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Spanish law is such that any sentence under two years for a non-violent crime rarely requires a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time.
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She was incarcerated at a minimum-security prison in Danbury, Connecticut from 2004 to 2005 for the one-time, non-violent crime committed five years prior.
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Two years might seem a bit harsh for a DDoS attack, but you have to remember that America's justice system takes non-violent crimes very seriously.
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"Anything against the state's interests, through a non-violent action, is susceptible to be considered sedition," he said through an intercom from behind a glass wall.
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Yet in a country where economic boycotts were first popularised as a non-violent strategy to combat British rule, such appeals carry emotional and historical heft.
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"The parking service provider has confirmed that the suspect cleared the background check and that he was terminated for a non-violent infraction," the statement reads.
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That is a turnaround from 22012, when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded her the prize and praised "her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights".
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India accuses Pakistan of funding armed militants, as well as separatist groups in India's portion of the region that are considered non-violent by international observers.
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"We need to convince these people, in every possible, non-violent way, that there are shelters in mainland Greece to host them," he told Greek radio.
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They include reforming mandatory minimum prison sentences for non-violent drug offenses and taking steps to address an epidemic of heroin addiction and prescription drug abuse.
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President Obama has recently granted commutations of sentence to over 600 federal prisoners, nearly all of them serving very long terms for non-violent narcotics crimes.
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"The Climate and Ecological emergency is THE issue of our time and art and design is crucial to our non-violent actions and communication," he said.
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Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said it's "stunning" that the Republicans would "question [Lewis's] motives" considering how well history has judged his record of non-violent protest.
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In Florida, a pivotal swing state, 10 percent of the adult population isn't allowed to vote because of a non-violent felony on their criminal record.
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The coalition, a non-profit civil rights organization, urged activists in a Facebook event to bring their "banners, signs and voices" to the non-violent gathering.
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"Give non-violent offenders a chance by keeping them out of prison or reducing their sentences," advocates of sentencing reform lecture us in the police force.
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Although that is a non-violent campaign, it has brought on Spain's most serious constitutional crisis in four decades and a government crackdown on its leaders.
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"But whatever happens ... the HDP will not abandon democratic politics, it will insist on non-violent methods to find a solution to political problems," he said.
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Simon said the saviors planned to clean up the mess themselves, but seems surprised that the isolated, non-violent Hilltop crew handled it without any help.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama on Friday shortened the sentences of 72 federal inmates, the vast majority serving lengthy prison terms for non-violent drug crimes.
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Emphasizing their non-violent offenses and light sentences, they argued the law violates their right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.
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For example, a project called Bail Bloc allows users to donate their CPU power to mine cryptocurrency in order to raise bail for non-violent offenders.
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The plan calls for those who are arrested on low-level misdemeanor or non-violent felonies to be released without bail until trial, the station reported.
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Many are there for non-violent drug crimes including possession of marijuana at a time that more than half the states have legalized it or decriminalized.
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Last year, Kim Kardashian apparently helped convince President Trump to pardon Alice Marie Johnson from a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense.
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It is a strategy too often used against accused first-time non-violent offenders in an attempt to crush them and coerce them into pleading guilty.
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The measure was entitled the REDEEM Act, and contained provisions that limited a juvenile's exposure to incarceration and sealed or expunged records for non-violent offenders.
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As L.A. Taco noted earlier this year, greater Los Angeles' booming marijuana industry is promising, but it leaves convicted felons with non-violent drug charges behind.
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Suu Kyi, who formerly won a Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent campaign for democracy in the country, called the Rohingya reports "exaggerated," Reuters reported.
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Through Louisiana's Re-Entry Court, non-violent short-term prisoners can pair with mentors serving life, who teach them skills like financial literacy and anger management.
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Over the last decade, at least 3,940 people have been executed, many for non-violent drug offences with 33 countries retaining the death penalty for drug crimes.
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He took steps to reverse the high rates of incarceration among African-American men, including granting clemency to hundreds of people convicted of non-violent drug crimes.
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But Human Rights Watch this month called out the government's arrests of critics, accusing el-Sissi of taking advantage of terrorist threats to silence non-violent dissenters.
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The commutations are part of Obama's push to reform the criminal justice system to reduce the number of people serving long sentences for non-violent drug offenses.
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Mr Sessions has opposed curbs on harsh interrogations for terror suspects (see Lexington) and voted against an attempt to end mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offences.
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Bushwick may not be a traditional war movie — but it's not the kind of thing you walk away from with a commitment to non-violent resistance, either.
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Meg, a 21-year-old student at Dhaka University, said he was part of "an absolutely non-violent protest" when he and his friends got tear-gassed.
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Legislation designed to reduce federal prison sentences for some non-violent crimes and to help prisoners prepare for freedom is inching its way toward the Senate floor.
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DOJ should investigate how pharma helped create the opioid crisis, not institute policies that take marijuana based medicines from patients and needlessly target non-violent minority youths.
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The prisoners are mainly non-violent drug offenders, a group the White House had hoped to reach through criminal justice reform bills that have stalled in Congress.
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Other popularly checked-out books include Marshall Rosenberg's communication classic Non-violent Communication and oldie but goodie How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
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The Grugq wrote on Medium, "Great job ridding the world of a non-violent drug distribution channel that virtually eliminated risk and significantly reduced harm to addicts."
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In a video shared on the White House's Instagram page on Monday, Brant reveals she was sentenced to life in prison for a non-violent drug crime.
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There's a huge amount of non-violent daily life just going on in the sprawling shanty towns surrounding the Olympic venues, and plenty of areas worth exploring.
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In Kentucky, outgoing Democratic Governor Steve Beshear signed an executive order in November granting the vote to non-violent offenders who had finished their sentences, including parole.
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Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, chairman of the Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella group of non-violent separatists, has been detained at his home, a statement from his office said.
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In 2013, Delaware Governor Jack Markell and his state legislature agreed to amend the State Constitution to allow non-violent offenders who complete their sentences to vote.
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The rallies also boasted hundreds of non-violent counter-protesters who weren&apost affiliated with Antifa and were mostly peaceful in their demonstrations against the white nationalists.
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Kamala Harris said Wednesday that if elected President, she would go further than former President Barack Obama in using her powers to pardon non-violent drug offenders.
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The U.S. Supreme Court in 2012 refused to hear an appeal contesting Rubashkin's sentence, which his lawyers argued was excessive for a first-time, non-violent offender.
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But the rewards for traveling the non-violent path — experience, upgrades, skills — always serve the campaign, which is a shooter, and a comically violent one at that.
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Originally pitched as sentencing options for "non-violent" criminals like Martha Stewart, they have slowly increased in use and application despite concerns from law enforcement and prosecutors.
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In 2013 Barack Obama's attorney-general, Eric Holder, issued a memo urging federal prosecutors to avoid mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders without gang ties.
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President Obama has promised to reform the federal criminal justice system, including revoking sentencing statutes that require judges to impose mandatory terms for non-violent drug offenders.
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Though one wouldn't necessarily know it from reading or watching the local news, the overwhelming majority of crimes committed by children are relatively minor, non-violent, offenses.
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One key to its passage: The plight of Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother who was serving a life-sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense.
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They became popular in more diverse locales to counter what officials there saw as overzealous federal immigration policies, particularly against those arrested for minor, non-violent crimes.
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Democracy Spring is partnering up with Democracy Awakening, another coalition of over 6900 organizations, to hold the non-violent sit-in at Capitol Hill on April 2628.
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In real-world terms, psychopaths are both superficially charming and shockingly dangerous—they're as much as three times more likely to commit violent and non-violent crime.
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José Ramos-Horta received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to bring about a non-violent end to the occupation of his country, Timor-Leste.
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In line with the movement's philosophy, Foxx's office had decided Smollett's non-violent, first-time, low-level offense didn't warrant attention when thousands of felonies await prosecution.
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It would also ensure the U.S. government does not deny visa applicants from Hong Kong if they have been arrested for taking part in non-violent protests.
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Jesús "Chuy" García (D-Illinois) -- Army veteran Miguel Perez Jr., who lost his green card and was deported to Mexico over a non-violent drug conviction Rep.
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I have learned to distinguish between violent and non-violent solutions, and to never label a whole nation because of the hateful acts of a few individuals.
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The Trump campaign also ran a 30-second spot during this year's Super Bowl featuring Alice Marie Johnson, another non-violent drug offender freed by the president.
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Asked if he condemned violence that has flared during the protests, Cruz said he advocated non-violent protest with the protesters and democracy activists he had met.
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The group uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to highlight the risks posed by climate change and the accelerating loss of plant and animal species.
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He said his government would in the future insist that non-violent criminals were separated from more dangerous ones to prevent them being recruited by organized crime.
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The reality star and entrepreneur was also instrumental in securing a commutation for Alice Marie Johnson, a woman serving a life sentence over non-violent drug charges.
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The governor and the cabinet members essentially scrapped reforms by Scott's predecessor, Charlie Crist, that automatically restored rights to non-violent offenders upon completion of their sentences.
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The game was non-violent but just challenging enough to hook players into steering the Pac-Man for hours through its mazes on the hunt for ghostly tidbits.
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"It should accept it and work on delivering the benefits to its people and then move forward aggressively with non-violent work ... to seek political rights," he tweeted.
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In his tenure, Obama has reduced the sentences of more than 1,000 non-violent drug offenders, far surpassing other recent presidents, who used their commutation powers more sparingly.
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So Trump hears out a celebrity over a case involving a woman who served 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug crime.
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Singh's sister, Catherine Duleep Singh, was also involved in the suffrage movement as a non-violent protester, and had a lesbian relationship with her German governess Lina Schäfer.
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Earlier this month 22 "patriotic associations" formed a Macedonian National Front to support VMRO, pledging to use "all available non-violent or violent means to defend the fatherland".
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We are deeply disturbed by the police actions that have been taking place, where non violent protests have been and continue to be met with extremely aggressive tactics.
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In 2016, Johnson wrote an op-ed for CNN in which she asked then President Obama to commute the sentence of 231 other non-violent first time offenders.
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He is sent to prison, where he only serves 86 days becuase after the 9-5 hack, the prison is releasing a high number of non-violent offenders.
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The men were founders of "Occupy Central with Love and Peace," a non-violent social movement that demanded free and open elections in the semi-autonomous Chinese enclave.
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Unsurprising, then, that you'll be able to stage robberies, though Rockstar claims that the game will give you plenty of non-violent interactions with the world as well.
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Like the former Vice President, I believe we need to tackle racism and income-based disparities in our criminal justice system, including extreme sentencing for non-violent crimes.
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In order to receive this funding, states like Georgia would have to eliminate mandatory minimums for non-violent crimes while taking action to reduce their overall prison rates.
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At the time, some activists said they had hoped he would grant early release to a larger number of inmates who are in prison for non-violent offenses.
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Extinction Rebellion wants to use non-violent civil disobedience to force governments to cut carbon emissions and avert a climate crisis that it says will bring social collapse.
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The Saudis oppress religious minorities, women, LGBT people and dissidents, and dozens of non-violent participants in Arab Spring protests face or have been executed, usually by beheading.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's parliamentary speaker has called the president's sacking of the prime minister to bring a former leader back to power a non-violent coup d'etat.
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Critics of the counter-terrorism legislation say that it could be interpreted in such a way that even non-violent dissidents could fall within its definition of terrorism.
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And then I'm nodding and so are the lawyers and then we're all nodding with such tasteful, educational, non-violent zeal, no one's quite sure when to stop.
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Philadelphia's District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday said the city will no longer seek bail payment for a number of misdemeanor and non-violent felony crimes, effective immediately.
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Clear My Record was first introduced in 221 with hopes of helping people reduce or clear any low-level, non-violent, and non-serious crimes from their records.
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Critics of the counterterrorism legislation, for one, say it could be interpreted in such a way that even non-violent dissidents could fall within its definition of terrorism.
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The initial purpose was to provide scholarships for those individuals who were already positive, non-violent social activists and wanted to further their education to support continued activism.
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At a time when the alt-right, ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other thugs enjoy active social media presences, how ironic that non-violent, largely pro-western bloggers cannot.
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They warn that deploying the military to go after non-violent migrants could lead to serious human rights abuses, while taking away resources from other pressing security problems.
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As a young man, Lewis was fiercely active in the Civil Rights Movement, leading the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and helping to organize the March on Washington.
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Van says the First Step Act -- which Trump signed into law in December 2018 -- allows for "compassionate release" of qualifying prisoners ... meaning low-level and non-violent offenders.
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Those of us who oppose a violent approach to the conflict in the Middle East should not be criminalizing one of the few potent non-violent tools available.
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He has commuted the sentences of 1,176 federal prisoners, as part of a push to reduce the number of people serving long sentences for non-violent drug offenses.
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Gradiva says she was shocked by Mitchell's behavior -- considering he's now a famous yoga instructor and should be able to channel his anger in a non-violent way.
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He has also adopted the view that all Islamists, even the non-violent offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood, are as grave a menace as Sunni jihadists and Shia militias.
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Obama is expected in the coming days to take further action in reducing sentences for non-violent drug offenders, part of a broader unilateral effort to ease harsh punishments.
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This study doesn't even begin to look at the other potential ways legalization could reduce crime in communities that are disproportionately affected by laws that prosecute non-violent offenders.
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Around the world, thousands of citizen activists have turned to the Internet and social media as tools to expose oppression and organize non-violent resistance to incredibly violent regimes.
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Last year, for instance, 17 members of a Luanda book club were jailed for reading a volume described as a "blue-print for non-violent resistance to repressive regimes".
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As researchers better understand the habits of these animals, and residents continue to implement non-violent preventative measures, there's hope for a peaceful co-existence between humans and sharks.
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I am sorry Jeff Toobin can&apost find some pleasure in letting a great grandmother get off of a life without parole sentence for a non-violent first offense.
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Boston is the bad place where drunk, abusive, men live while small southern towns are havens, where the non-violent hot single dads haunted by their ex-wives live.
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Both Barack Obama and Charles Koch, a businessman who supports right-wing causes, want to reduce mass incarceration in America by softening laws that punish non-violent drug offenders.
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Kim is trying to save Alice Johnson who is serving a life sentence for a non violent drug crime and all you can do is TALK ABOUT HER ASS!!!
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The most common crimes committed by immigrants arrested by ICE are non-violent crimes such as DUIs, other traffic violations or immigration-related offenses, which could include illegal entry.
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"I hope that the high echelons of the (ruling) Republican Party will unequivocally recognize the popular velvet and non-violent revolution," he said to loud applause from the crowd.
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Liberals roll out examples of people being held for minor and non-violent crimes who are forced to be away from their families because they couldn't afford monetary bail.
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Explosions are awesome and cool and need to happen more in your life as you get old (the highly controlled, non-violent, and fun sort of explosions, of course).
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But even though majority of sex workers' clients are non-violent, violent offenders are likely to seek out victims in this occupation because it can be an easy target.
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Imagine what kinds of videos you'd see posted to Facebook from a police force that was out of control and intent on punishing non-violent drug offenders and addicts.
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Kaepernick by all means was joining the collective conscious of the non-violent, Black Lives Matter movement that has swept the country, protesting violence against and killing of minorities.
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On Monday, Widodo's government announced a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir, a non-violent group that advocates an Islamic caliphate and was an organizer of the anti-Purnama rallies.
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Kim has been fighting for prison reform, and in September she met with President Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform and clemency for non-violent convicts.
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Sanders said earlier this week at a CNN town hall he supported expanding the right to vote to all prisoners during their sentences, including non-violent and violent offenders.
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The Daily Stormer had encouraged attendance to the "Unite The Right" rally, where a man drove a truck into a crowd, killing one non-violent protester and injuring others.
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"I do not consider myself soft on crime, but I consider myself opposed to mandatory minimums for low level non-violent drug dealers who are basically addicts," he says.
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Critics of the counter terrorism legislation, for one, say it could be interpreted in such a way that even non-violent dissidents could fall within its definition of terrorism.
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YouTube is also increasingly in politicians' crosshairs for algorithmically accelerating extremism — and it made a policy shift last year to also remove non-violent content made by listed terrorists.
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Why it matters: The Senators hope that the bill can receive bipartisan support by reducing sentences for non-violent drug offenders, but still enforcing harsher sentences for violent criminals.
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Those entered into the STMP "experience a pattern of constant harassment" by police, despite some having minor, non-violent convictions, or no convictions but frequent contact with law enforcement.
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Omer's currently co-authoring a book that sounds like it would have helped Rotondo's parents: It's about using non-violent resistance to kick lazy offspring out of the house.
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Hamas remains dedicated to the Jewish state's demise but is now struggling to co-opt, or harness, a popular and largely non-violent uprising originally organized by ordinary citizens.
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Obama is expected to make one final official act as president Thursday, a round of clemency for non-violent drug offenders who received sentences the president views as unjust.
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SALAFIST BUT NON-VIOLENT Salafism, the basis for Islamic State's ideology, says Muslims must return to the practices of early Islam and shun many aspects of modern Western life.
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Niamh Eastwood: Covert surveillance is an unfortunate addition to fabric as it risks (predominantly young) people being criminalized for the non-violent act of drug possession and/or use.
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Various advocacy groups have pointed out this problem and multiple ways in which it might be addressed—without infringing on the rights of law-abiding, non-violent gun owners.
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The Danish system also allows non-violent offenders who have served a significant part of their sentence to leave the facility for 48 hours every two or three weeks.
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It is a sub-optimal use of limited Justice Department resources to round up hundreds of workers on non-violent crimes who pose no known danger to their communities.
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One Cleveland judge had even declared he would no longer jail non-violent offenders in the Cuyahoga County jail, where six inmates had died in a four-month span.
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This will have a negative impact on the run of the mill case, leading other first-time non-violent defendants to prison, when there is no need for it.
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Over 60 percent of voters in six key battleground states say federal prisons house too many non-violent offenders, a new poll from the U.S. Justice Action Network finds.
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"It has no impact on [or] any risk to any person or any flight, which is the whole purpose of it because we are completely non violent," Davidsen said.
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But the situation continued to be tense: At another point, around half-a-dozen police officers on motorcycles were overwhelmed by shouting protesters, though that situation stayed non-violent.
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It is our hope that the President will grant clemency to Ms. Alice Marie Johnson who is serving a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense.
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They were all earnest, talked about a non-violent revolution and a world of possibility, and were, to the last, far smarter than I, and I know my place.
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Earlier in 2015, President Barack Obama called for an end to mandatory minimum prison sentences for non-violent drug offences, as well as other overhauls to prisons in America.
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He believes that could keep non-violent, often minority offenders out of jail and get actually sick patients medicine with fewer worrisome side-effects than pain killers and other drugs.
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Fresh off her winning pitch to Donald Trump to spring a non-violent drug offender , Kim Kardashian is mulling her political prospects — and won't rule out a White House bid.
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"Very sad to hear reports of civilian casualties in Mrauk U...Rakhine urgently needs non-violent rule of law," Kristian Schmidt, the European Union's Ambassador to Myanmar, said on Twitter.
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In response Jerry Brown, the governor, passed a law to divert those convicted of non-serious, non-violent and non-sex-related offences to county jails instead of state prison.
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Instead, Boldin says the burden should be on the President to come up with new policies to help non-violent drug offenders who've been locked up for way too long.
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Jawar, who promotes non-violent activism and an "Oromo first" ideology, returned to Ethiopia from the United States in August last year, a few months after Abiy come to power.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama on Friday commuted the sentences of more than 40 drug offenders as his administration continues its effort to lessen the punishments of non-violent criminals.
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Extinction Rebellion, which goes by the abbreviation XR, describes itself as an "international movement" that uses "non-violent civil disobedience" to bring issues such as climate change to the fore.
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Fox suggested that as well as offering a way out for non-violent producers, consumers also stood to benefit from marijuana becoming part of a recognized legal and medical framework.
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Outside of a house that only has two walls left standing, I bump into Graham, my super mutant friend who, unlike the rest of his species, seems completely non-violent.
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He joined the fledgling Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), went freedom-riding during civil rights protests in the South and was beaten and briefly jailed in Mississippi and Georgia.
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Political prisoners and those accused of other non-violent offences are housed with inmates both accused and convicted of violent crimes, according to the AAPP, which regularly interviews recent inmates.
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Most Americans agree that non-violent drug offenders are better served by treatment than prison; in recent years Nebraska has expanded its use of drug courts for just that reason.
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The Bureau of Land Management has been a prominent, if not hated, symbol for decades within the extreme volatile fringes of this blustery, but mostly non-violent anti-government movement.
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If convicted on all charges, Ronaldo could get a 5 year prison term -- though it's unlikely he'll serve a single minute behind bars as a first time non-violent offender.
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Similar attention could be given those who those whose cases triggered career offender provisions through prior non-violent drug crimes, or cases where mandatory minimums were triggered by such priors.
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Directors Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway closely followed two black men who were given heavy jail sentences for minor, non-violent crimes under California's three-strikes guidelines.
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"We are proud of WNBA players' engagement and passionate advocacy for non-violent solutions to difficult social issues but expect them to comply with the league's uniform guidelines," Borders said.
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Matthew Charles -- who had served 20 of his 35-year sentence for a non-violent drug and weapons charges -- was the first to be released under new prison reform laws.
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One glaring reality that consistently keeps people out of the democratic process is that 6.1 million people across the country can't vote because of a prior non-violent felony conviction.
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The Forza Horizon series, the overlooked SSX reboot, the abandoned MotorStorm franchise, the non-violent bits of Just Cause 3: these are the games to which I most often return.
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The Vy'keen are warriors, and despite my non-violent nature, I manage to earn their favor by acting the part (this usually means they share weapons and technology with me).
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The move to toughen sentences for fentanyl possession and distribution contrasts with an effort by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown and many lawmakers to reduce sentences for non-violent drug crimes.
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The protest is part of the Pashtun Long March, a domestic non-violent movement, which began in January 2018 after the extrajudicial killing of a Pashtun falsely accused of terrorism.
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Today, he wears a cap from his clothing line that reads, "Non-Violent, Direct Action Programs," a phrase he took from Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letters from Birmingham Jail.
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Messages designed to placate audiences and deny injustices are likely to backfire, while those that acknowledge legitimate aspirations and offer or model non-violent options are more likely to succeed.
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Several states including Ohio and California have begun releasing hundreds of people to slow the spread of the disease, and some prosecutors have begun declining to prosecute non-violent offenses.
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Jimmy, a 55-year-old Legal Aid client, was released early from Rikers Island on Tuesday — one week before the end of his sentence on a non-violent misdemeanor conviction.
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If passed, the initiative will restore voting rights to over one million former felons who were convicted of non-violent crimes, and have completed their prison sentences, parole and probation.
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" This youth movement is a non-violent one, settling on noisy, public protests designed to demand the attention of the general public, as well as to disrupt "business as usual.
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When we would be released from jail after a non-violent protest, we might go to a late night club and let the music of Aretha Franklin fill our hearts.
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There are other admirable reform efforts in Congress including those that would lower sentences for low level, non-violent offenders and refocus prison resources on rehabilitation and lowering recidivism rates.
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"I'm excited about what I've seen," said Charles McLaurin, 77, who was an early organizer with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, registering blacks to vote in the Mississippi Delta.
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Temer's decree ordered that, with some caveats, non-violent, first-time offenders who have already served one-fifth of their sentence are eligible for pardon, compared to one-quarter previously.
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Missions under the aegis of the African Union and the Southern African Development Community are likely to whitewash the election, provided it is non-violent, as they have always done before.
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It is indeed legal for the Trump team to actually boot people out of the country if they have no legal immigration status and they're caught committing even non-violent crimes.
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"The groups identified as most at risk are human rights advocates, journalists, people with particular political affiliations or beliefs, people who protest or engage in non-violent political activity," Brook said.
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Sanctuary cities became more popular in cities with more diverse communities to counter what leaders considered extreme federal immigration policies, especially against those who were arrested for minor, non-violent crimes.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said on Tuesday that amendments to a bill to lower sentences for certain non-violent drug offenders are close to being finished.
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Mr Erdogan's increasingly toxic reputation in Washington took another hit earlier this spring, after his bodyguards were caught on video beating up non-violent protesters a mile from the White House.
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Again, he acted only later, when the government arrested some religious leaders and banned Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, a hardline but non-violent Muslim group which had been involved in the protests.
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And in April, protesters sparred with her husband Bill Clinton, the former president, over the 1994 bill he signed into law that put non-violent offenders in prison for longer terms.
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When Americans hear the words "demonstrators" and "protests" many of us think of non-violent marches, sit-ins and boycotts led by people like Mohandas Gandhi in India and the Rev.
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Holder and the Department of Justice attempted to correct the draconian and overreaching sentencing laws of the drug war by not seeking lengthy mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders.
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"I would think especially for non-violent offenders that we rethink removing the right to vote and allow everyone, or as many as possible, to participate in our democracy," O'Rourke said.
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The law, called the First Step Act, eases harsh sentencing rules for non-violent offenders and requires the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons to implement new programs to help reduce recidivism.
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Sessions' guidance, which he announced last Friday, paves the way for more prosecutions of non-violent drug offenders and tougher sentences, specifically rescinding instructions issued by then-President Barack Obama's administration.
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More than a million non-violent ex-offenders— those convicted of murder or sexual offenses are not included— would automatically be able to vote if the ballot initiative is a success.
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Towards the end of his career in Congress, Boehner did signal an openness to getting people out of prison who "don't really need to be there," including non-violent drug offenders.
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The ACLU is encouraging people to take action through the People Power initiative, which targets Florida and other other states with archaic voter suppression laws tied to non-violent felony convictions.
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Debates about the legacy of Cecil John Rhodes and his place in South African society were robust and often emotive -- yet they, unlike the scenes from Charlottesville, were largely non-violent.
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Public health and criminal justice systems must also be better linked by expanding initiatives that divert non-violent offenders into treatment instead of prison like drug courts and probation reform programs.
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However, the initiative has left thousands of non-violent offenders in prison for decades, causing prison numbers and corrections spending to explode, without the return on public safety that was desired.
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If statistics show that members of certain races, ethnicities, or religions are relatively more violent, statistically, that does not justify prohibition for the very large non-violent majorities of those groups.
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Instead of regulating the process of non-violent interrogation, the court required police to give warnings before they start, and then only continue if the suspect waives their right to silence.
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While 81 percent of women in prison are there for a non-violent crime, 46 percent report having experienced domestic violence and 53 percent report having been abused as a child.
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The volunteers, recruited by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and Congress of Racial Equality activists, trained at an Ohio college, then traveled some 800 miles south by bus or car.
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To be clear, the incarcerated people being released from jails are non-violent, low-level offenders who often face hefty wait times before trial and cause overcrowding within the prison system.
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Perez told CNN that doing 7 1/2 years in prison and then being deported for a non-violent felony amounts to double jeopardy -- being punished twice for the same crime.
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"This was still a very substantial sentence, especially for a non-violent, first-time offender of his age," said Mark Allenbaugh, a consultant who formerly worked for the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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A pro-independence group called "Tsunami Democratic" tweeted late on Monday that it had begun a "cycle of non-violent civil disobedience" and said there would be more protests to follow.
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That means addressing the opioid epidemic that's driven millions from the workforce and reforming our criminal justice system so we give more non-violent offenders a second chance and a job.
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Rockström noted that, according to social scientists, when roughly 3.5% of a nation's population joins "civil and non-violent uprisings" it can be enough to force change, even in a dictatorship.
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Facebook said it removes all praise and support of banned groups even if the praise and support is of a group's non-violent activities and enforces that policy regardless of context.
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"While I am not a supporter of the BDS movement, I believe that Americans have a constitutional right to participate in non-violent protest," he said in his statement to VICE.
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Although CHRF represents the moderate, non-violent wing of the protests, and has demonstrated support from a broad swath of Hong Kong society, police had no intention of risking an escalation.
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New rules adopted after mass protests in Moscow that followed President Vladimir Putin's 2012 election made it a criminal offence to stage some forms of non-violent protests without a permit.
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Conservative reform is focused on non-violent offenders, not violent ones, and the reforms actually make more room in prisons to house the violent offenders we seek to remove from society.
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"The best defence against these dirty weapons is peaceful, non-violent Satyagraha," he said in a tweet referring to the strategy of passive political resistance advocated by independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
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"Bipartisan support continues to grow in the Senate for comprehensive criminal justice reform, which includes providing additional discretion for judges at sentencing for lower level, non-violent drug crimes," he said.
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Michael Jordan says Charlotte must COME TOGETHER in a PEACEFUL, and NON-VIOLENT way ... in the wake of the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott ... and the protests that have followed.
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The group has become a leader in the global fight for environmental justice, and is known for staging peaceful protests and non-violent actions to bring awareness to its important causes.
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While such features might make it easier to get away with the kind of in-person robbery suggested by the Times, they're probably better put to use running non-violent online scams.
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Writing in the Harvard Law Review earlier this month, Obama said his push toward eliminating mandatory minimum sentences and offering clemency to non-violent drug offenders was informed by his own history.
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There is no specific law against upskirting in Spain, but it could be prosecuted as a breach of privacy or as sexual abuse, a wide-ranging offence coving non-violent sexual crimes.
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They heckled Bill Clinton for the 1994 crime bill he signed into law as president that cracked down on gangs but also put more non-violent offenders in prison for longer stays.
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On May 203th he appeared to reverse years of sensible policy that sought to reduce punishment for non-violent drug crimes by instructing prosecutors to pursue the "most serious, readily provable" offences.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama on Thursday shortened the prison sentences for dozens of additional drug offenders, the latest in an ongoing attempt to rein in lengthy punishments for non-violent crimes.
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During the difficult time period that also saw the 71-year-old actor battling cancer, Cameron and his father have both been outspoken about the harsh sentencing for non-violent drug offenders.
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According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, Louisiana is more than twice as likely to imprison citizens for non-violent crimes as southern states with similar crime rates, including South Carolina and Florida.
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Marijuana legalization: Yang pledged to legalize marijuana and pardon all non-violent drug related offenses, then later clarified in an interview with George Stephanopoulos that he would only pardon marijuana-related offenses.
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Criminal justice: Bennet was a sponsor for the justice reform First Step Act bill in 2016, which limited juvenile solitary confinement and reduced minimum sentences for some repeat non-violent drug crimes.
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Fawcett - who led a peaceful campaign for equal rights including petitions, lobbying members of parliament and non-violent protests - will become the first woman honored with a statue in London's Parliament Square.
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His proposal includes a $20 billion grant program aimed at reducing incarceration and pledges to use his clemency power as president to reduce or pardon prison sentences for non-violent drug offenses.
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In Atlanta, we are in the process of converting our city's detention center -- a building that once housed ICE detainees and non-violent offenders — into a center for equity, health, and wellness.
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" 86 percent of voters in Kansas say they would support "reducing non-violent drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor as a way to reduce the prison population in the state.
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Along with a Democratic colleague from Philadelphia, Wagner co-sponsored a "clean slate" bill that would seal the criminal records of non-violent criminals who maintain a clean record for ten years.
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Trump also commuted the sentences of two people, including Ronen Nahmani, a non-violent first offender with five young children at home and a wife with terminal cancer, the White House said.
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In the latest key case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that police could lose protection from civil lawsuits if they use a Taser on non-violent suspects.
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SRCA is a bipartisan bill that would reduce certain federal mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent, low-level and repeat drug offenses and expand reintegration services for those leaving the prison system.
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As expected, they found mental disorders such as psychosis, anxiety, depression and drug and alcohol dependence to be much more prevalent among violent men and gang members than among non-violent men.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded an Obama-era memo that would allow leniency for non-violent drug offenders, increasing the kind of tough sentencing that first sent Johnson to life without parole.
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Of the 158 people killed by the Saudi state in 2015, 72 percent were convicted of non-violent offenses such as political protest or drug-related crimes, according to research by Reprieve.
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Leaders of the group deny receiving any foreign funding and say the PTM is a non-violent grassroots movement dedicated only to defending the civil rights of ethnic minority Pashtuns in Pakistan.
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Companies today bring executives to the ranch to learn how Grant Golliher builds a relationship with a skittish, untrained horse through a methodical display of respect, patience and non-violent boundary-setting.
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Instead of spending more on jailing those accused of low-level, non violent crimes before trial, they would be better directed towards fighting violence in cities struggling across the country, like Chicago.
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John Lewis, through non-violent sit-ins, protests and demonstrations, helped to shape a generation of Americans who sought to transform a political reality long based on racial segregation, poverty and violence.
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The university said in a statement the violence was "instigated by a group of about 150 masked agitators who came onto campus and interrupted an otherwise non-violent protest," according to NPR.
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One had argued that the photo ID requirement resulted in long lines at polling stations, and the second sought to overturn a state requirement restoring voting rights to non-violent felons individually.
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In the last year, the president has found public support in polls as he presses for reforms to get more non-violent offenders out of jail and to reverse mandatory sentencing policies.
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She also played a key role in the release of Alice Marie Johnson, the 63-year-old woman who served 21 years of a life sentence for a non-violent drug charge.
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The majority of women in US prisons are serving sentences for non-violent crimes, and once they arrive, they face the threat of losing their children and families while navigating inadequate health services.
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Warren endorsed measures to "decriminalize poverty," including ending the use of cash bail, which makes it hard for poor people to get out of jail when charged with minor or non-violent crimes.
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My mother, Karen Edmonds Spellman, worked with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, doing the dangerous work of organizing African Americans to register and vote throughout the Jim Crow South.
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Cory Booker Booker, a U.S. senator from New Jersey, would extend clemency to inmates convicted of non-violent drug offenses, continuing an effort to shorten such sentences that he began as a lawmaker.
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They also heckled Bill Clinton for the 1994 crime bill he signed into law as president that cracked down on gangs but also put more non-violent offenders in prison for longer stays.
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While Dakota Access LLC has continued construction on the project, advocates have been risking their safety and engaging in non-violent direct actions in order to protect their community from a dangerous project.
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Extinction Rebellion has called for non-violent civil disobedience to force the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025 and stop what it calls a global climate crisis.
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Though the actor is prepared for his jail time, he understands that it is "symbolic" and does not compare to the disproportionate "hard time" millions of people are serving for non-violent crimes.
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People talk about police corruption all the time, but can you break down what really happened in Detroit, and why Wershe was held for almost three decades for a non-violent drug offense?
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These include mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders, a directive for prosecutors to pursue the most aggressive charges possible, and a turn back toward disastrous and exploitative private for-profit prisons.
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In 2010, while he was in prison, the Nobel committee awarded Liu the peace prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" -- a move that infuriated Beijing.
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Mr McAuliffe's latest is a doozy: a order made on April 22nd that restores the voting and civil rights of an estimated 206,22012 non-violent and violent felons who have completed their penalties.
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The Gulf governments are particularly wary of Doha's relationship with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, a non-violent organization, as President Donald Trump urges Arab leaders to take a stronger stance against extremists.
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Since the definition of abuse now includes traditionally non-violent behavior, such as making repeated phone calls, this provision may run up against a strong gun lobby that already feels under concerted attack.
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In particular, Jewish supporters of BDS, which is a non-violent movement based on the values of freedom and equality for all people, have been deemed outside the Jewish tent by these institutions.
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At its core, these campaigns run on multiple lines of effort, serve as the non-violent line of effort of a wider movement, and execute political warfare agendas that reflect cultural Marxist outcomes.
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Last week, a blast of new Red Dead Redemption 2 previews hit the web, digging into the game's focus on non-violent interaction, intense level of detail, and new methods of interactive storytelling.
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Even for the 316 times Tucson PD used theirs in the last year, it is still a real stretch to think that some low-level non-violent offenders weren't on the receiving end.
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They have tried to overshadow a record of reform praised by some experts, including the expunging of marijuana convictions, targeting gun violence and moving away from prosecuting non-violent offenses such as shoplifting.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation on Wednesday that would lessen prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders, reviving a similar effort that failed to become law last year.
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Foxx has expunged criminal records related to marijuana convictions, steered her office away from non-violent crimes such as shoplifting, pushed for cannabis legalization nationally, and argued for mental health and addiction services.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As London's police try to manage a rise in non-violent street protests aimed at spurring action to tackle climate change, they face a quandary, human rights experts said.
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"Extinction Rebellion is an unprecedented challenge for the police," said Garnett, noting the large number of people "dedicated to an issue, prepared to be arrested and, crucially, totally non-violent in the process".
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The seven issues are: concealed-carry permits, deportation of illegal immigrants, abortion, the Clean Air Act, mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders, the Affordable Care Act, and raising the minimum wage.
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Haki R. Madhubuti, née Donald Luther Lee, was a member of the Black Arts Movement, whose early involvement with groups like the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee has informed his activist-minded poetry.
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That is, the same countries who are actively undermining the non-violent U.S. sanctions efforts are also now criticizing the U.S. military option of taking out the leader of Iran's international terrorist forces.
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She worked alongside King and others in the Southern Christian Leadership Council in the 1950s and was a mentor to the young activists who founded the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1960.
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The NPC in an earlier statement announcing Clinton's visit said it reached out to him and others to ensure peaceful elections and a non-violent transfer of power in the West African nation.
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In March 22012, two months after he became governor, Scott reversed Crist's reforms, which had allowed many non-violent felons to automatically get their voting rights reinstated after they had completed their sentences.
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His final acts in office hewed closely with the legacy he hopes to leave as president: On Thursday, Obama commuted the sentences of more than 300 non-violent drug offenders, continuing his clemency push.
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She held meetings with both Maduro and opposition leader Guaido, and said on Friday that her office had been advocating for the release of those detained in Venezuela for acts of non-violent dissent.
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Along with Brown, Kardashian West, 37, is looking to help Alice Johnson, a 62-year-old grandmother serving 21 years in prison for a first time, non-violent drug offense, according to The Blast.
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Extinction Rebellion's commitment to non-violent civil disobedience to press for faster cuts in greenhouse gas emissions has spurred offshoots in more than a dozen countries and pushed climate change up the political agenda.
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The New York Times and Politico pointed out that while technically true, Trump did not mention that most of those people are likely non-violent, their criminal records reflecting things like missed court dates.
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As such he seems to be drawing a dividing line between Arab states (and tame salafists) on one side, and all forms of Islamism on the other—be they non-violent Brothers or jihadists.
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Throughout the game, players are also given the choice between following Vincent's plan or Leo's for specific circumstances, which generally boils down to whether you're taking the violent (Leo) or non-violent (Vincent) path.
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In June, Kim Kardashian West, Kushner, and Ivanka helped get clemency for Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who was given a life sentence for a non-violent drug offense in 1993.
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He was working as a dental assistant when he was detained for three years without a hearing after being placed in deportation proceedings based on two non-violent convictions, joyriding and misdemeanor drug possession.
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They have only tried, through non-violent demonstrations, social media actions and a bold policy agenda, to ensure that America's future breaks with its profoundly dispiriting legacies of slavery, Jim Crow and racial discrimination.
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Everyone is trying to stay non-violent, but if you&aposre going to yell something at an event, I mean, come on, we are all grown men, here, I think we can take it.
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While we cannot change the past, we can make the future for these individuals and their families and communities stronger and more successful through alternative approaches to criminal justice for non-violent drug offenses.
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In the summer of 1964, groups like the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) mobilized volunteers to register black voters in Mississippi, known as the Freedom Summer.
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In fact, NBC's Tom Winter reports Castile was pulled over 31 times over his driving life, and received multiple tickets for a range of non-violent misdemeanors including "driving without a muffler" and speeding.
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Point of fact ... the State's Attorney believes Jussie staged the attack but felt it was a low-priority, non-violent crime that would have resulted in a punishment of community service, so why bother.
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Reformers lost all their momentum during brutal 2016 political season in which candidate Donald Trump elevated "tough on crime" politics at the expense of bipartisan efforts to reduce prison sentences for non-violent criminals.
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He was also sentenced to 15 months in prison, a term likely to be suspended because Ren is a first-time offender convicted of a non-violent crime, according to The New York Times.
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Climate group Extinction Rebellion has targeted sites such as Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge in a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience with the aim of stopping what it calls a global climate crisis.
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The proposal would also set up a process for making some inmates accused of non-violent crimes eligible for parole earlier, and allow them to earn credits toward parole by engaging in good behavior.
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During the 2016 presidential election, Trump incorrectly claimed that crime rates were on the rise, despite a three decade-long stretch of sharp and steadily declining numbers of both non-violent and violent crime.
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If you agree that non-violent ex-offenders who've served their time should get the opportunity to be full Americans again—here's how you can take action at a People Power event near you.
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In March 2628, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his allies at the Medical Committee for Human Rights called for non-violent direct action, lawsuits, and complaints to the federal government against such hospitals.
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The oil group chaired by Yasir al-Rumayyan did not lop off the heads of 139 subjects, including 54 for non-violent drug crimes, according to Interior Ministry statements cited by Human Rights Watch.
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READ: Kamala Harris promises to do more for non-violent drug offenders than Obama 'It was the most diverse room I've ever walked into' The Democratic base is indeed more diverse than ever before.
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The same week that Azerbaijan held its ersatz presidential election, a youth-led, non-violent protest movement was emerging in neighboring Armenia to bring down a prime minister that embodied Armenia's entrenched political elite.
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And you can find examples of crowds being incredibly non-violent, not all crowds are violent and it's not even clear that crowds are more likely to be violent than people on their own.
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The bill, unveiled by a bipartisan group of lawmakers last fall, aims to lessen prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders and it would also do away with the three-strike mandatory life provision.
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He will also be under the microscope for how he implements a new law that eases prison sentences for non-violent criminals, after he advocated for the opposite, tough-on-crime approach for decades.
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Brown was arrested that day and has since been arrested twice more for non-violent civil disobedience, including gluing himself to a bathtub in a busy road in Bristol, a city in western England.
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In reality, Hong Kong police have been the ones causing the most violence on the ground, shooting "nonlethal" rounds at point blank range, and firing tear gas regularly into crowds of non-violent protesters.
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Broad in scope and ambitious, it focuses on reducing mass incarceration, restricting the use of deadly force by police and legalising marijuana federally—a move aimed at reducing incarceration for non-violent drug offences.
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Two-thirds of voters — 65 percent — support fair chance hiring, and 87 percent of voters strongly support replacing mandatory minimum prison sentences for non-violent offenders with a system that allows judges more discretion.
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The group cites a long history of non-violent direct action (NVDA) as inspiring their tactics, from Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement to ACT UP's protests during the AIDS crisis.
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The president met with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West earlier this year to discuss a commutation for Alice Marie Johnson, who received a life sentence for a first-time non-violent cocaine trafficking charge.
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Kardashian publicly championed Johnson's case and met with President Donald Trump in 2018 to seek clemency for Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother who was serving a life sentence for non-violent drug offenses.
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A total of 527 inmates in prison for non-violent and low-level crimes had their sentences commuted Friday, with 65 still held on detainers and set to be released at a later date.
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The lifetime prohibition should include non-violent felons who have been law-abiding for decades; anyone who was convicted of marijuana possession in 6900 should be presumed to be a continuing menace to society.
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In Maryland, House Bill 1597 — sponsored by Delegate Charles Sydnor, D-Annapolis — would ensure that licensing restrictions on those with non-violent, non-sexual criminal records do not pose a permanent ban on work.
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To be clear, there are good reasons to criticize common FBI practices regarding the arrest of non-violent suspects — as many supporters of criminal justice reform, on both the left and right, long have.
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Organizers Extinction Rebellion have called for non-violent civil disobedience to force the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025 and stop what they call a global climate crisis.
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But as long as his advocacy remains non-violent, says Johannes Chan (no relation) of the University of Hong Kong, even the Societies Ordinance does not provide a clear legal basis for banning the party.
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The movement, which proponents say is non-violent and rights-based, has been blasted by supporters of Israel as anti-Semitic and not helpful to the cause for peace, a charge that the activists deny.
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By 2009, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants had been deported under the new law and human rights groups say about a quarter of those deported were sent out for minor and non-violent crimes.
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D.C.'s decriminalization proposal would remove criminal penalties for adults engaged in prostitution—selling sex and buying sex, as well decriminalizing non-violent third parties like managers or security, and sex workers' places of business.
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When the two meet later in the book, he talks about the conflict within him: he's a supernatural predator who's destined to kill, but wants badly to live up to Rachel's non-violent human standards.
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Judges would have more discretion to sentence people with minor previous convictions to less than the mandatory minimum (at present they can exercise that discretion only for non-violent drug offenders with no criminal history).
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Rick's only non-violent solution is to exile the man, even though he knows that the former Savior will likely meet up with a renegade band of Negan devotees that decided not to join Alexandria.
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While "serious, high-level or violent drug traffickers" should plan to spend years behind bars, Mr Holder wrote, "long sentences for low-level, non-violent drug offences do not promote public safety, deterrence and rehabilitation".
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But it is less and less so with lawmakers, who are more aware of the foreign criticism it attracts, especially because it is sometimes used for non-violent crimes such as corruption and drug offences.
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With many defendants facing long "mandatory minimum" sentences for non-violent drug offenses, government informants were not hard to come by -- friends and neighbors testified against one another to downplay their involvement in the conspiracy.
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Entertainment Tonight reported the same, adding that the Los Angeles County Fire Department confirmed that the patient, who was male, was non-violent when authorities arrived at the residence before being transported to the hospital.
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A report by the medical journal the Lancet and Johns Hopkins University said last month that the examples of Portugal and the Czech Republic had shown that decriminalizing non-violent offenses produced compelling health benefits.
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More provocatively, it assures rights of national sovereignty, but with a caveat: it grants a "right of assistance" to support non-violent groups and individuals to foster democracy or human rights in non-free societies.
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" In October 2010, while serving his sentence at Jinzhou Prison, near Shenyang, Liu was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.
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As the conversation around decreasing federal sentences for non-violent drug offenders gains momentum, one has to wonder whether such a change by the USSC could be in response to help keep private prisons afloat.
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Shaundra Scott, executive director of the ACLU of South Carolina, said the understaffing problems in the state's prisons are exacerbated by poor mental health care and failure to separate non-violent offenders from violent inmates.
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During the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, attempts to organize non-violent protests (which included a ban on slingshots and throwing rocks) were stymied by Fatah, the biggest political movement in the West Bank.
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It's no secret that your minor age young men are usually prosecuted to the full extent of our laws while your white counterparts may be given probation or diversion for the same non violent crime.
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The White House said in a statement that Nammani's case had certain "extenuating circumstances," namely that he was a non-violent, first-time offender whose wife has terminal cancer, and who has five young children.
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And in May, Sessions told prosecutors to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" against criminal suspects, upending an Obama era push to phase out long prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders.
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Both conservative and liberal panelists discussing the report on Monday agreed that lighter sentences for non-violent offenders and lower barriers to job opportunities after prison would address the economic problems described in the report.
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Their goal for Three One Zero is to continue making non-violent games, not just because they're tired of shootings things in the face, but because they're tired of designing the same kind of game.
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As of March 16, L.A. County is releasing low-risk and non-violent inmates early as well as reducing the number of arrests they are making from an average of 300 each day to 134.
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The source pointed to research conducted by Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, who found non-violent, civil disobedience campaigns to be a far more powerful way of shaping world politics than violence.
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"When we would be released from jail after a non-violent protest, we might go to a late night club and let the music of Aretha Franklin fill our hearts," Lewis said in a statement.
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Second, if Arpaio becomes the first recipient of Trump's presidential mercy, he would not be, as has often been the case recently, a relatively anonymous person who committed a non-violent offense many years ago.
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The movement is a non-violent activist campaign that aims to put economic and political pressure on Israel over its actions toward Palestinians, including calling for an end to Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
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As recently as last week, Kushner was behind a flurry presidential pardons and commutations issued that included Tynice Nichole Hall, an African American woman who served 14 years in prison on non-violent drug charges.
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For example, the parole process for the non-violent should be more streamlined than the process for violent offenders, reducing costs, and enabling more resources to go toward making sure violent offenders are appropriately rehabilitated.
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Let's talk about those women; one out of three women on the planet Earth that are in prison are in the United States, they are overwhelming disproportionally — even more so than men — non-violent offenders.
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Kim Kardashian is getting backlash from people within the prison reform movement who think she's getting too much credit for helping free non-violent inmates ... and the lawyers Kim's working with are getting an earful.
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"Violent pornography—the depiction of one person getting hurt by the other person—is associated with the report of sexually violent behavior among youth, whereas non-violent pornography is not," she told me over email.
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President Barack Obama has also worked to reform the criminal justice system at the federal level, eliminating the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine and granting clemency to nearly 100 non-violent drug offenders.
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Kim Kardashian is more popular in prisons than ever -- and that's saying a lot -- because scores of inmates are reaching out now that word is out she can offer non-violent offenders a path to freedom.
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"Today, I join others in non-violent civil disobedience in order to help focus the nation's conversation on these key democracy issues -- and the public needs politicians to start acting now," he said in a statement.
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The first responders "noted that the man was non-violent when they arrived at the residence, then transported him to a local hospital," according to ET. A 5150 hold means that the person is hospitalized involuntarily.
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Morgan, who last season transformed from an almost militant non-violent actor into a brutal killer, has a struggle of his own that plays out more in his mind than against another member of the group.
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In 2007 Tony Blair, a Labour prime minister, unveiled a programme that initially tried to build local partnerships with non-violent Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist groups to rein in the violent ones.
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"The government had a clear understanding that violence and confrontation would not be the way out as it could endanger the lives of the girls, hence a non-violent approach was the preferred option," he said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama commuted prison sentences for 61 non-violent drug offenders on Wednesday and the White House said he hopes to issue more pardons and commutations during his remaining months in office.
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" In October 2010, while serving his sentence at Jinzhou Prison in northeastern China, Liu was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.
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"Where non-violent extremism goes unchallenged, the values that bind our society together fragment," May, who had been interior minister for six years before taking over the Downing Street reins, said in a speech in February.
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EPA has cited "First Amendment-protected activity," such as non-violent protests, "to justify millions of dollars in additional security spending, including first-class air travel, as compared to his predecessors at the agency," they wrote.
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He also nixed a key part of the Obama-era "Smart on Crime" initiative, which was aimed at reducing the number of defendants charged with non-violent drug offenses that would otherwise trigger mandatory minimum sentences.
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Last year, Kardashian West visited President Trump at the White House to discuss the case of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time non-violent drug offender who had already served 21 years of a life sentence.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan pair of U.S. Senators on Tuesday called on President Donald Trump to back a bill that would reduce prison sentences for non-violent offenders, despite staunch opposition by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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A leader of a civil rights group called Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, he was one of the participants in the key 1965 civil rights protest pushing for voting rights from Selma to Alabama's capital, Montgomery.
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Sixty-seven percent of Americans think that the government should help non-violent drug offenders, who constitute one in every five inmates in American prisons, by treating drug abuse like a health issue, not a crime.
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The poll also found that more than 70 percent voters in each state favored changing the way non-violent criminals are sentenced and allowing judges to use their discretion rather than doling out mandatory minimums sentences.
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And any move toward amnesty, while aimed at lesser and non-violent offenders, is sure to face opposition from the general public, rivals in Congress and U.S. allies who helped Mexico orchestrate its force-based approach.
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With this multi-faceted research effort providing a better understanding of shark habits, plus myriad non-violent preventative measures, residents of Reunion Island hope for a future in which humans and sharks can peacefully co-exist.
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The humanitarian catastrophe has brought calls to strip Myanmar's de facto leader, Suu Kyi, of the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in 1991 for her non-violent pro-democratic activism against the country's ruling military junta.
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"China Action is dedicated to promoting human rights within the existing legal framework of the People's Republic of China and has only ever advocated non-violent, informed reliance on Chinese law," the group said in its statement.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama commuted the prison terms of 42 non-violent drug offenders, nearly half of whom were serving life sentences, in his latest batch of clemency decisions, the White House said on Friday.
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Alston cited the recent declaration of a "climate emergency" by Britain's parliament, after climate change activists with the Extinction Rebellion group held a series of non-violent protests in April, blocking transport and major roads in London.
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Several states have tried to find alternatives to incarceration for non-violent criminals, partly to save money and partly because they have concluded that locking up too many people for too long does little for public safety.
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The overwhelmingly liberal town (it's also the home of Antioch College) seems largely in agreement that the police's behavior was unwarranted and escalated a non-violent situation, but they're divided on whether the response was racially charged.
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He would increase spending from $60 million appropriated in 2019 to $1 billion per year on juvenile justice, including launching a new grant program that would push states to put non-violent youth in alternatives to prison.
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Obama has pushed to reform the U.S. criminal justice system to reduce the number of people serving long sentences for non-violent drug crimes, a rare area where the Democratic president has garnered support from Republican lawmakers.
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More than 1,000 people have been arrested during the protests, which started last Monday, as part of the group's campaign of non-violent civil disobedience with the aim of stopping what it calls a global climate crisis.
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In recent years federal and state authorities across the United States have initiated policies to reduce the penalties for low-level, non-violent crimes and grant clemency for inmates who served time for those types of offenses.
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In the 1990s, Ring worked as a Republican Congressional staffer in both the House and Senate, helping push through a landmark 1994 crime law that established longer mandatory sentences -- including for criminals convicted of non-violent offenses.
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Locking up non-violent offenders for long sentences does little to reduce crime; it actually increases the chances that these individuals will not be able to successfully return to society, find jobs and turn away from crime.
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Speaking under banners that read, "Wende 2.0," AfD politicians call for a new peaceful revolution — another reference to the non-violent overthrow of the Communist dictatorship — only this one means to overthrow Merkel and Germany's political establishment.
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Nicola Gratteri, chairman of a committee on judicial reform set up by Renzi in 2100, says around three-quarters of all trials for non-violent or non-drugs-related crimes expire before the appeals process is exhausted.
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Provided they are not repeat offenders, the amnesty bill plans to cover people convicted of non-violent robbery to prison terms of four years or less, women who aborted their pregnancies, and doctors who carried out abortions.
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During the Super Bowl, his campaign ran an ad about his commutation of the sentence for a black woman, Alice Marie Johnson, who had been in jail 21 years for her non-violent role in cocaine trafficking.
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A Moscow court sentenced Kotov, a 34-year-old programmer, to four years in prison in September for "repeated" participation in unauthorized rallies, under a widely criticized law that has made non-violent protests a criminal offence.
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"A 'sit-in' is not the same as an act of violence, and the police should not be engaged in maximal surveillance for non-violent activity," said Arthur Eisenberg, the New York Civil Liberties Union's legal director.
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The cumulative effect between 2014 and 2024, in Rand's non-violent resistance scenario would be a cost of some $80 billion to the Israeli economy, of which some $44 billion would be due to BDS, he said.
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Legend has it that the man was pious and non-violent and therefore refused to raid Anglesey when the Vikings went in to do their thing, choosing instead to hang back and sing psalms on the boat.
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They could face jail terms of up to 22 months if found guilty, although it is customary in Spain that offenders of non-violent crimes with a sentence of under two years do not serve time in jail.
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Trump made a remarkable about-face after meeting with Kim Kardashian West in May when he granted clemency to a Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug offense.
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If there is one thing that has stripped underserved black communities of opportunity, it is the unwarranted incarnation of non-violent black men and women that has left hundreds of thousands of families without their fathers or mothers.
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According to a 2011 law review article by two immigration court judges, "non-violent, fairly trivial misdemeanors are considered aggravated felonies under our immigration laws," including theft, filing a false tax return, or failing to appear in court.
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In San Francisco, local prosecutors are less inclined to bring charges when there is pressure not to incarcerate people for non-violent crimes, and police do not want to pursue cases that are unlikely to result in charges.
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A report by the medical journal the Lancet and Johns Hopkins University said countries such as Portugal and the Czech Republic had shown that decriminalizing non-violent offences such as possession and petty sale produced compelling health benefits.
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For example, those convicted of non-violent crack offenses who did not get the benefit of a 2010 law lowering the sentences for that kind of crime could be quickly spotted, screened for prison behavior, and given clemency.
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Seven countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain, severed diplomatic ties with with the energy-rich monarchy on Monday, accusing it of backing Tehran and Islamist groups such as the non-violent Muslim Brotherhood.
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"The coordinated MPD response is part of a custom of the District of Columbia of responding with overwhelming and unlawful force to non-violent demonstrators at largely peaceful demonstrations where some law-breaking is occurring," the lawsuit reads.
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Everyone who knows Mr. Otunga in his personal life can attest to the fact that he is a highly educated, sophisticated, and non-violent man, and that his primary concern in life is caring for the parties' son.
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The U.S. Supreme Court should "resolve the significant conflict between the circuits regarding the propriety of TASER [Conducted Electrical Weapon] use in response to a subject's active yet non-violent resistance to a lawful seizure," Taser's filing read.
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Considering that it was through the efforts of both non-violent leaders like Rosa Parks and self-defense advocates like the Black Panthers that we've gotten this far, maybe hope and realism don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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The measure passed unanimously in the state Senate's Public Safety Committee, despite a broader effort by majority Democrats to shorten sentences for non-violent drug crimes as part of an effort to reform the state's overcrowded prison system.
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"If we are going to condemn violent means of resisting the occupation, we cannot also condemn non-violent means," Omar, who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said last week at the markup of the anti-BDS resolution.
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In one of the very few British studies to explore the link between gang membership, violence, and mental health, Jeremy Coid and his colleagues compared non-violent men, violent men (with no involvement in gangs), and gang members.
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During the same period, Republican supporters of Trump's agenda passed the revolutionary Fist Step Act, which has reunited many black families after Clinton-era policies unfairly targeted and punished them with lengthy prison sentences for non-violent crimes.
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Why you only need 3.5% of the population for a revolution XR's rationale for why these actions matter strategically is directly inspired by Why Civil Resistance Works, a 2011 book that transformed the study of non-violent rebellion.
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At the protest on Friday, Sadr ordered crowds not to enter the security zone housing the American embassy as part of a non-violent resistance policy he and other Iraqi militia leaders agreed upon after Soleimani&aposs death.
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Nearly 70 percent in Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin said the federal government is spending too much tax money keeping non-violent offenders behind bars and agreed the criminal justice system should focus on rehabilitation.
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Trump shows no appetite for the criminal justice reforms — meant to reduce the time and money the government spends incarcerating non-violent offenders, particularly when it comes to drug offenses — that the Kochs have increasingly championed in recent years.
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Already an avid user of his presidential clemency powers, Obama is expected to hand down additional grants on Thursday to non-violent drug offenders, who sentences he's been commuting at a rapid pace as he prepares to depart office.
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The mix of posters and photographs in the exhibition, document the way freedom was won by a gradual expression of non-violent protests despite the frequent use of violence by local police patrols and white vigilantees across the South.
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As a rebuttal to that criticism, Harris has pointed to her initiatives like "Back on Track," which she started early in her career as a district attorney, that diverted non-violent offenders from jail to training and education programs.
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Once supported, now criticized The bill, formally known as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, is now roundly criticized by nearly all Democrats and some Republicans and blamed for locking up a generation of non-violent offenders.
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According to the report, over 80 percent are in jail for non-violent misdemeanor offenses, meaning that they pose no threat to anyone's safety but stay behind bars because their families don't have the money to bail them out.
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Since there is no evidence that "disarming all non-violent felons" does much good—and the criminal in question showed no "proclivity for violence"—it is a violation of the Second Amendment to strip all felons of their firearms.
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In addition, Holley confirmed to The Blast that Kardashian West had instructed him to work with the legal team of 62-year-old Alice Johnson, who is serving a life sentence for her first time, non-violent drug conviction.
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IN 2013, Eric Holder, then the attorney-general, issued a memo telling prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants—such as non-violent offenders who were not members of drug gangs—with offences that would hand them long prison sentences.
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Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro also told reporters at the She the People event that he was open to allowing non-violent offenders being able to vote while incarcerated, but also differentiated for violent felons.
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Jim Cooper, another activist, said the ruling was a "moral victory" but that a loss in court would not have affected the movement's plans to carry out more non-violent protests to demand urgent action on climate change threats.
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Through stark and evocative illustrations, book one tells the first-hand account of Congressman Lewis' experience with the Civil Rights Movement, starting with Lewis' rural upbringing to how Lewis helped desegregate lunch counters in Nashville through non-violent protests.
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The agreement has come under scrutiny in the last week after seven countries, including OPEC de facto leader Saudi Arabia, cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of backing Tehran and Islamist groups such as the non-violent Muslim Brotherhood.
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The court heard how in 2013, Tai, Chan and Chu began promulgating and planning a non-violent civil disobedience campaign to occupy streets in the Central business district should China not allow a democratic vote for its next leader.
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"At the same time, there are some at-risk inmates who are non-violent and pose a minimal likelihood of recidivism and who might be safer serving their sentences in home confinement rather than in BOP facilities," Barr wrote.
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The Cuyahoga County Court in Ohio released more than 234 low-risk, non-violent incarcerated people from the county jail on Saturday morning amid growing concerns over the U.S. coronavirus outbreak and how it may rapidly spread through jails.
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RIYADH, March 26 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has released 250 foreign detainees held on non-violent immigration and residency offences as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, the state-backed Human Rights Commission (HRC) said on Thursday.
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While there were other government mandated non-violent groups that looked to find Nazis and prosecute them through the court system, there was a vigilante group named Nakam, Hebrew for "revenge," that was taking matters into its own hands.
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The order states that more than 140,000 Kentuckians were unable to vote despite completing their prison terms for non-violent felonies, and that Kentucky was one of two states that did not automatically restore voting rights to former felons.
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But when he was found guilty of more than 80 counts of financial fraud, this first-time non-violent offender was essentially given a draconian life sentence, much longer than big-name corporate CEOs convicted of major financial crimes.
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"As a 67-year-old first time offender convicted of serious but non-violent crimes, Roger Stone's history and characteristics support a sentence below the advisory Guidelines range of imprisonment," Stone's legal team wrote in a filing last week.
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"The coordinated MPD response is part of a custom of the District of Columbia of responding with overwhelming and unlawful force to non-violent demonstrators at largely peaceful demonstrations where some law-breaking is occurring," the ACLU's lawsuit reads.
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Additionally, Florida (where the Dolphins are based) is currently considering an important effort to give voting rights to non-violent ex-offenders, with a ballot initiative currently underway to get the issue up for a statewide vote in 2018.
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The movement, launched in 2005 as a non-violent campaign to press Israel to heed international law and end its occupation of territory held since a 1967 war, has gathered momentum in recent years even if its economic impact remains negligible.
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The indictment cites Gezi protest acts that matched Sharp's non-violent protest methods, such as Roger Waters' "The Wall" concert in Istanbul in August 2013 when photos of people killed in the protests were displayed on a huge stage backdrop.
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He and his lawyers pointed to what they'd described as illegal searches in the investigation, the involvement of at least two federal agents now proven to be corrupt, and Ulbricht's draconian punishment for what they described as non-violent crimes.
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The new effort follows on moves in recent years by the Justice Department and by the states to reduce sentences for non-violent offenses and change sentencing requirements that are now widely viewed as discriminatory against blacks and other minorities.
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The report, commissioned by the government last year, comes after weeks of protest by climate group Extinction Rebellion, which carried out a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience with the aim of stopping what it calls a global climate crisis.
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