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Such a normative framework provides for procedural protections; it also provides for human rights oversight and remedies in the event of abuses.
There's another LAT front-page story about jail abuses: the L.A.
Genuine immigration abuses are the backdrop for the schlocky murder mystery, Border Line (Monday, NBC, 9 p.m.), which marks the return to television of Sherry Stringfield (formerly of ER ). But the single-mom-in-peril subplot is so trite it's a wonder she can stay awake, never mind the viewer.
Given access to a large pool of immigrant labor in urban centers, the jobber-contractor system in women’s apparel led to the wide-scale presence and abuses of sweatshops.
If a husband knocks his wife down, breaks her jaw or arm - abuses her terribly - he will be picked up and put in jail.