Catchword: gating

Filed under: English, Canada, Crime & Prisons

Part of speech: v.

Quotation: Aware of public concern about prisoners committing violent crimes while on mandatory supervision, new legislation was enacted to allow the parole board to detain potentially dangerous offenders—like Leigh—until their sentences expired. The actual process is called a detention hearing. It’s popularly known as “gating.”

Article or Document Title:
“Anger spurred attacks on Waterloo women, sex offender asserts”

Author:
Eugene McCarthy

Article, document, publication, web site:
The Record

Publishing location:
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Can.

Date of publication:
Dec. 5, 1992

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