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By law, "the Sundays and the public holidays remain protected as days of rest from work and of spiritual elevation" (Art. 139 WRV, part of the German constitution via Art. 140 GG). Thus all Sundays are, in a manner, public holidays – but usually not understood by the term "holiday" (except for, normally, Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday).
The head offices for the state prison services are in the respective state justice ministry. There, a prison service department controls the organization of the prison service, personnel matters, basic and advanced training for prison staff, budgets, construction, cooperation in prison service legislation, the employment of prisoners, and vocational training and education for prisoners.
Johnny Cash advocated prison reform at his July 1972 meeting with United States President Richard Nixon. Kim Kardashian and President Donald Trump discuss prison reform in May 2018. In the 1800s, Dorothea Dix toured prisons in the U.S. and all over Europe looking at the conditions of the mentally handicapped. Her ideas led to a mushroom effect ...
Public holidays for the institutions of the European Union in 2024 Date Day 1 January 2024: New Year's Day: 2 January 2024: Day following New Year's Day 28 March 2024 (Thursday before Easter) Maundy Thursday: 29 March 2024 (Friday before Easter) Good Friday: 1 April 2024 (Monday after Easter) Easter Monday: 1 May 2024: Labour Day: 9 May 2024 ...
In 1865, following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, but it included an exception that allows slavery to be used as punishment for a crime.
The first millennium reform of the Hebrew calendar changed it from an observational calendar into a calculated calendar. The Islamic calendar was a reform of the preceding lunisolar calendar which completely divorced it from the solar year. Another reform was performed in Seljuk Persia by Omar Khayyam and others, developing the precisely ...
The IPPF's members are experts in penal and penitentiary matters from around the world such as judges, officials in the prison system, and academics. The IPPF holds consultative status at the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the United Nations Economic and Social Council , and the Council of Europe .