(n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
(n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
(n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
(2) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
(3) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(4) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(5) The US department of justice is understood to have opened an investigation into the death, and four others in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, following a referral from the CIA.
(6) In a sample of men remanded into custody for medical reports during a three-month period, it was found that those who received recommendations for treatment had a diagnosis of acute mental illness, had in the past been admitted more frequently to mental hospitals and had spent a longer period as in-patients.
(7) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(8) Jeffrey Epstein in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.
(9) Of the 11 people in custody, five were arrested while driving on a remote highway on Tuesday afternoon , three were arrested in separate incidents outside the refuge that evening, and three more subsequently turned themselves in at FBI checkpoints just outside the refuge.
(10) Although major reforms are underway in many total institutions to humanize treatment procedures, innovative alternatives to custodial care are gaining impetus in the community.
(11) Indigenous man's death in custody blamed on NT 'paperless arrest' powers Read more In line with the findings of the royal commission, Cavanagh said the increased number of Indigenous people in custody would likely lead to a proportionate increase in custodial deaths.
(12) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(13) Therefore, no institution can be therapeutic for the patient, since its aim must be his custody and violent destruction.
(14) Leyla Yunus has diabetes and hepatitis C. The health of both Yunuses has gravely deteriorated over the year they’ve already spent in custody.
(15) It is understood that this second callout was in relation to the death in custody.
(16) His client has been in custody since Saturday when he was arrested in connection with the New IRA attack.
(17) Hallam told the hearing: “If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur … Mothers in her situation should have proper and full access to the court with the assistance of legal advice.” Parents involved in custody battles are no longer eligible for legal aid following cuts imposed by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in April last year .
(18) This is evidence that custodial workers as a group have had asbestos exposure in the past, as reflected also in the work histories obtained at the time of examination.
(19) But in January 2010, men snatched Mobley off the street, shot him in the leg and took him into custody.
(20) There are two basic findings from the hospitalization outcome literature: Active treatment is more effective than custodial care, and length-of-stay has little influence on later outcome.
Remand
Definition:
(v. t.) To recommit; to send back.
(n.) The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a sample of men remanded into custody for medical reports during a three-month period, it was found that those who received recommendations for treatment had a diagnosis of acute mental illness, had in the past been admitted more frequently to mental hospitals and had spent a longer period as in-patients.
(2) He appeared at Ipswich magistrates court on Monday and was remanded in custody.
(3) Reducing the remand time in prison for people accused of minor offences who would not get a prison sentence on conviction will save a further 1,300 places a year.
(4) However in a statement released in response to the Amnesty International report, corrective services minister Joe Francis said the government makes “no apology for detaining young people who commit violent crimes,” and suggested all Aboriginal young people who are currently in detention are either serving a sentence or are on remand for “extremely serious crimes,” including murder.
(5) In 1990 he was held on remand for almost a year charged with possessing documents likely to be of use to terrorists.
(6) Would he have been remanded in custody in a different atmosphere?
(7) And that being the case, should they be remanded in custody over the possession of an Oyster card not registered to them and the theft of a mirror?
(8) US federal judge David Bunning, who remanded Davis to US marshals during a high-profile hearing last week, ordered the Rowan County clerk released from jail on the condition she doesn’t interfere with efforts by her deputies to issue marriage licenses.
(9) Indigenous people make up 40% of people jailed or held on remand in WA, despite being only 3.5% of the population.
(10) Four young Egyptians have been remanded in custody, accused of making fun of the government in a satirical video posted on social networks, according to judicial sources.
(11) Pineda, who was not immediately charged, has been remanded in custody for 40 days while investigations continue.
(12) Tomkins spent 17 months on remand in Birmingham's Winson Green prison before he was acquitted.
(13) Amazon recently started blocking pre-orders and delaying shipments on certain Hachette titles as part of a move to remand a higher cut of the retail price.
(14) The prevalence of mental disorder amongst prisoners refusing food was studied by examining the prison records of a remand prison and a dispersal prison.
(15) Consecutive female admissions to the Winnipeg Remand Centre were studied and data concerning personal history, family background, psychological factors and mental health were recorded.
(16) One 35-year-old solicitor said: "Remand [in custody] was used as a sword, as opposed to a shield."
(17) Assange, the most famous inmate in the Victorian jail, met his legal team after being sent there on remand when he was refused bail on Tuesday.
(18) Michael Adebowale I sentence you to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 45 years less 272 days spent on remand.
(19) Peter got six years (which means he will serve three years minus the 150 days he has spent in remand) and a five-year extended licence period.
(20) Nearly 40% of remanded adolescents scored above the recommended cut-off scores of the YSR, a figure four times greater than that found among adolescents living in the community.