Hard Labour Sentences

[Tropicana]

I thought this had gone out but apparently they are still sentencing people to hard labour in Jamaica. What exactly does that mean? What does it entail?

23-y-o gets 34 years' hard labour for killing stepfather
Rasbert Turner, Star WriterA 23-year-old man who pleaded guilty to shooting and injuring his stepfather was sentenced to 34 years' hard labour in the Corporate Area Gun Court last Friday. He is Orlando Edwards, tea vendor, of Matthew's Lane, Kingston. Edwards pleaded guilty to shooting with intent as well as illegal possession of firearm and ammunition. The court heard that on Ash Wednesday, Edwards went to Guys Hill, St Catherine. He approached the complainant, who is his stepfather. During a dispute, he reportedly brandished a handgun and shot the complainant in the shoulder. The injured complainant ran to the Guys Hill police station. A policeman went in search of Edwards and he was held. A 9mm pistol was taken from him. Edwards was taken into custody and investigations by Detective Sergeant Oral Israel resulted in him being charged.

http://jamaica-star.com/thestar/20130909/news/news12.html

Confused, headline and story don't match.

ATTORNEY-at-Law Conrod Powell was yesterday sentenced to six months at hard labour or a fine of $100,000 in the May Pen Resident Magistrate’s Court.The 38-year-old attorney from St Elizabeth, was arrested and charged over a year ago by members of the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB), after they received information of arrangements he made to corrupt a police officer.
A sting operation was set up and Powell was held after he gave a part payment of $10,000 to the arresting officer as a bribe to compromise two cases on behalf of one of his clients.
Powell was found guilty of the charges and convicted on March 31, 2011.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2hWIdzpbx

Corrupt cop gets nine months' hard labour

Published: Saturday | January 30, 2010

A policeman who pleaded guilty to corruption charges two weeks ago was sentenced to nine months' hard labour in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.He is Constable Anthony Davey, 35, who was attached to the Waterford Police Station in Portmore, St Catherine.
Defence attorney Windel Wellesley pleaded with the court not to impose a custodial sentence on his client.
The lawyer told the court to weigh in its consideration that the accused had been in custody since August last year.
However, Resident Magistrate Simone Wolfe-Reece, in handing down the sentence, scolded the accused for betraying the trust and authority the State had vested in him.
"As an officer of the law, you were entrusted to do good for the country. However, you abused that trust," Wolfe-Reece said.
Davey's appearance in court arose from an incident in August 2009.
The complainant was arrested and charged by Davey on breaches of the Rent Restriction Act. However, after the man was granted bail, Davey solicited $15,000 to discontinue the case.
Collected marked money
The man made a report to a colleague of Davey's at the Anti-Corruption Branch and he was caught during a sting operation collecting marked money.
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has been stained by the perception of corruption within its ranks. Last year, just over 60 members of the force were arrested on corruption charges while more than 30 were kicked out of the force.
In December, the former head of the St Catherine North Police, Superintendent Harry Daley, was found guilty of corruption.
Daley, the highest-ranked policeman to be convicted of such crime, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. However, he has not been sent to prison as his lawyer has indicated that she will be appealing the conviction.

Meanwhile, the country's police anti-corruption czar, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Justin Felice, has said his office will continue its effort to rid the force of dirty cops.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100130/lead/lead3.html

Can anyone spell stupidity w.r.t. that last one.

[blugiant]

do yuh membah da days aff slaveree?


thyme fe end awl farms aff slaveree ann dat include prison labor

[Tropicana]

do yuh membah da days aff slaveree?


thyme fe end awl farms aff slaveree ann dat include prison labor

Blugiant...you nevah ansah mi question. What exactly do these guys for hard labour?

[Wahalla]

usta break stones....

[Tropicana]

Breaking stones? For what the road? Are they able to still have paid employment when they do that? Got to admit that is better than the flogging with the tamarind switch. I still remember the scene from The Harder They Come. How demeaning. Do they still do that in Jamaica?

[blugiant]

mii tink itt awlso include farm wukk like durinn slaveree

criminalizinn blakk peeps fe cantinueinn day days aff slaveree

mii memba dem use fe send peeps to tamarind farm fe do hard labour

cleaninn upp streets

[Tropicana]

I must say Jamaica had some really bizarre penalties for crime.

When the people were sentenced to hard labour, were they still able to have other jobs? How did they support themselves?

[Tropicana]

Okay it's on the books people are sentenced to it and they then go free...is that how it works?

[RichD]

I must say Jamaica had some really bizarre penalties for crime.

what are some of the " bizarre penalties" you have heard about?


the Tamerind whip stopped in about 1970 ..the last hanging was in '88 i think.


they whip was outlawed in 1998 officially.

[Peasie]

Men should be sentenced to hard labor. Women have been sentenced long enough.

[Tropicana]

what are some of the " bizarre penalties" you have heard about?


the Tamerind whip stopped in about 1970 ..the last hanging was in '88 i think.


they whip was outlawed in 1998 officially.

Those are the very penalties I am talking about....notice I use the work HAD. If the Temerind whip stopped in 1970, how come it was in the movie The Harder The come release din 1974? Maybe because it was based on an old story... Ivanhoe Martin aka Rhygin.

On October 9, 1948, Jamaica police shot and killed Ivanhoe Martin on Lime Cay in Jamaica. “Rhygin,” as he was more popularly known, was a gangster and a folk hero and, as many know, the inspiration for Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come, a Jamaican film starring Jimmy Cliff as Ivan Martin. Although he was buried in a Pauper’s lot inMay Pen Cemetery in Kingston shortly after he was killed, Rhygin’s memory has been kept alive for decades, largely through Henzell’s work. What many don’t know, however, is that the iconic two-gun image of Cliff-as-Ivan (as seen below) was not only based on photos actually taken of Rhygin when he was alive, but that Rhygin’s story was first appropriated for dramatic purpose in early 1948 in a Jamaican stage production called Rhygin’s Ghost by comedians Bim and Bam. Then, in 1966, Rhygin was the basis for a well-known poem Louise Bennett called “Dead Man”

I wish there were clearer photos of him.

[Wahalla]

Because films are fiction not to be confused with fact.....

[Peasie]

Somewhere in Canada a bubble just burst.

[RichD]

Those are the very penalties I am talking about....notice I use the work HAD.

In the context of common practice in sentencing all over the world nothing is bizarre about the penalties in Jamaica. Canada abandoned whipping around the same time Jamaica did(1972 in canada ). Whipping was on the books as part of a sentence for similar crimes as it was in Jamaica (things like robbery or rape).

in Canada they did not use the tamarind stick but instead used the paddle or the water hose. Cat-o-Nine was used in most colonies as well .

[Tropicana]

In the context of common practice in sentencing all over the world nothing is bizarre about the penalties in Jamaica. Canada abandoned whipping around the same time Jamaica did(1972 in canada ). Whipping was on the books as part of a sentence for similar crimes as it was in Jamaica (things like robbery or rape).

in Canada they did not use the tamarind stick but instead used the paddle or the water hose. Cat-o-Nine was used in most colonies as well .

First me hearing bout dis.