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    The Non-Detention Act of 1971 is a United States statute enacted to repeal portions of the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, specifically Title...
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    much of the act's Communist registration requirement abolished. The emergency detention provision was repealed when the Non-Detention Act of 1971 was...
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  • Preventive detention is an imprisonment that is putatively justified for non-punitive purposes, most often to prevent further criminal acts. Preventive...
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  • of 2010, about 31,000 non-citizens were held in immigration detention on any given day, including children, in over 200 detention centres, jails, and prisons...
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    Security Act (1950) Intelligence Identities Protection Act Non-Detention Act (1971) Economic Espionage Act of 1996 Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy...
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  • the Non-Detention Act, which provides that "No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress...
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  • Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security...
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    Migration Act could be applied to authorise the indefinite detention of stateless persons. The court ruled that when properly interpreted, the Migration Act was...
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    The Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 (PSA) is a preventive detention law under which a person is taken into custody to prevent them from acting...
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  • Rex 84 (category Civil detention in the United States)
    Non-Detention Act NSPD-51 Palmer Raids Posse Comitatus Act Terrorist Screening Database Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act...
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    affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections. The Act's section on pretrial detention, which took effect in full on September...
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    government has a policy and practice of detaining in immigration detention facilities non-citizens not holding a valid visa, suspected of visa violations...
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  • 4001(a) of Title 18 of the United States Code (the Non-Detention Act; enacted to prevent the sort of detention that occurred when the United States placed Japanese-American...
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  • Immigrant Detention Camp Size Of 7 Football Fields". NDTV. Retrieved 14 September 2019. "Student unions back anti Citizenship Amendment Act protests"...
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    the Migration Act 1958, people arriving in this manner are classed as unlawful non-citizens and are currently subject to mandatory detention. However, in...
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    Policing and Crime Act 2017, "which mean[s] that there is now a presumption that suspects who are released without charge from police detention will not be released...
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    The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/...
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    Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial...
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    Al-Kateb v Godwin (category Imprisonment and detention)
    unlawful non-citizen. Section 196 of the Migration Act provides that unlawful non-citizens can only be released from immigration detention if they are...
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    measures of preventive indefinite detention, imprisonment without trial and judicial review enacted in the Defence of India Act 1915 during the First World...
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  • terrorist attack, or other disaster. The Act contains controversial language allowing the indefinite military detention of persons the government suspects of...
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    than did previous administrations regarding migrant detentions, allowing no exemptions for detention,[clarification needed] unlike the George W. Bush and...
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  • law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian...
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    mandatory detention. During Fiscal Year 2023, 273,220 people were booked into ICE custody. As of FY 2023, the daily average population of non-citizens...
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  • promulgated by the President of India on 7 May 1971. The Act was based on the Preventive Detention Act of 1950 (PDA), enacted for a period of a year, before...
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    Amendment Act 1989 created a regime of administrative detention of "unlawful boat arrivals". Such detention was discretionary. The Migration Reform Act 1992...
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    Terrorism Act 2005 in March 2005. This Act replaces detention in prison with "control orders" which allow for the imposition of an extensive and non-exhaustive...
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    on Saturdays, pupils may get detention on a Saturday even if it is a non-school day for them. In China, long-time detention is perhaps less common than...
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    movement under United States law Future Attribute Screening Technology Non-Detention Act Project Hostile Intent Transportation Security Administration U.S...
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    The Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) of Singapore is a statute that grants the executive power to enforce preventive detention, prevent subversion, suppress...
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