Sentences with phrase «about incarceration»

Reliable data about the incarceration of Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander LGBQTI people.

When a Parent Goes to Prison: A Guide to Discussing Your Incarceration With Your Children (PDF - 431 KB) New Jersey Department of Corrections, Divisions of Programs and Community Services, Office of Transitional Services (2007) Offers helpful ideas for encouraging open and honest communication about incarceration between children and adults.

Two rarely seen Dorothea Lange photographs about the incarceration of Japanese Americans by the U.S. during WWII will also be on view in the exhibition.

I didn't consciously set out to write about imprisonment, but Ruby's Spoon is a novel about incarceration and the quest for freedom, both emotional and physical.

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach Ryan Nunn, Lauren Bauer, Audrey Breitwieser, Megan Mumford, and Greg Nantz (2016), «Twelve Facts about Incarceration and Prisoner Reentry,» The Hamilton Project: Economic Facts Series, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

And what about the incarceration of people of color in the U.S.?

Hundreds of NDC youth in the Sissala East constituency last Monday embarked on a peaceful procession in Tumu to register their displeasure about the incarceration of two executives of the party and to welcome the convicts from their one week jail term.

Several years of prison ministry have convinced me that there are substantial parallels between what we think about incarceration and how we understand salvation.

Not exact matches

In his 1994 study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

Though Christians may come to different conclusions concerning their convictions about drug laws, being informed about the current state of incarceration and the long - running War on Drugs is the first step in forming an intelligent opinion.

And though different Christians may come to different conclusions concerning their convictions about drug laws, being informed about the current state of incarceration and the long - running «War on Drugs» is the first step in forming your own opinion.

Commit this Advent season to educating yourself (or your faith community) about a particular pervasive injustice — mass incarceration, human trafficking, child brides, infant & maternal mortality, violence against women, etc..

The next time a front - office employee is thinking about swiping proprietary information from another club, they'll remember the incarceration before the draft picks.

Then you can just keep clicking through to the later cards until you get to something, like incarceration rates or recidivism, that you don't know as much about.

We care about our students» potential much more than their pasts and specialize in equipping adults with histories of incarceration, addiction, homelessness, and trauma with the hands - on training and support they need to begin a culinary career.

About two dozen people attended the People's State of the State Address, holding signs that called for taxes on the rich and giving speeches about mass incarceration and the increasing lines at food pantAbout two dozen people attended the People's State of the State Address, holding signs that called for taxes on the rich and giving speeches about mass incarceration and the increasing lines at food pantabout mass incarceration and the increasing lines at food pantries.

Cortland County Legislators want to hear about Alternatives to Incarceration from the consultant that

In a year when Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Ed Meese and others are championing the downsizing of mass incarceration, and on the heels of former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik excoriating the failures of a prison system that simply warehouses, Governor Cuomo's announcement is part of a broad rethinking about how to make «corrections» correctional,» said Katzenstein.

«It makes you wonder and think about mass incarceration.

Former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — who impaneled the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform in 2016 after calling for Rikers to be closed — argued that the effort is «not about politics.»

In a statement, Cuomo pointed to the high cost of incarceration — about $ 60,000 per year, per prisoner — compared to the relatively inexpensive cost of the college level classes, about $ 5,000 per prisoner.

Staff and clients from The Fortune Society spoke about how the stability of supportive housing can significantly help people reentering the community after incarceration, and called on Gov. Cuomo to immediately release the promised funds.

Hawkins joined with Alice Green and Center for Law and Justice to deliver 10,000 petition signatures to Cuomo Tuesday calling on the governor to establish a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission to study the impacts of mass incarceration on New Yorkers, largely brought about by the failed war on drugs.

We'll learn about a unique intervention to help avoid incarceration.

A study conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles found that «[a] $ 1 million investment in incarceration will prevent about 350 crimes, while that same investment in education will prevent more than 600 crimes.

Organizer Sean Collins is with Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration: «And in the resolution it talks about, it calls on local law enforcement officials and agencies to utilize their discretion they have, use greater discretion to provide more leniency and more compassion in the system, and do what they can now, even though there isn't a law on the books to divert 16 - and 17 - year - olds away from prisons.»

Did his incarceration suppress the idea of a new Biafra which he propagates or did it in any way discourage other parts of the country from speaking their minds about the structural imbalance in the country?

«If you think about it, safety of the community crosses party lines, helping young people who might be in positions that aren't very fruitful or helpful for them as they move forward; alternatives to incarceration, why are we putting young kids in jail if we don't have to, those are all things that cross party lines, so my values haven't changed.»

«I believe in things that cross party lines, if you think about it, safety of the community crosses party lines, helping young people who might be in positions that aren't very fruitful or helpful for them as they move forward; alternatives to incarceration, why are we putting young kids in jail if we don't have to, those are all things that cross party lines, so my values haven't changed.»

One resident asked state Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst) about his son's incarceration on Rikers Island, to which Peralta said, «I represent the ramp to Rikers, not Rikers Island, just the approach road.»

The pardon plan also comes amid a national debate over reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders, in part because of the cost of mass incarceration and concerns about racial inequality in the criminal justice system.

Cortland County Legislators want to hear about Alternatives to Incarceration from the consultant that assisted Tompkins County.

He finds its use to study incarceration innovative, saying that more simulations like this one might provide useful data about the consequences of decisions that affect society.

In the test for which the shorter sentence was used, incarceration rates actually declined from the starting point of 1 % for about the first 5 years and then increased only very slightly, to 0.725 %, for the 50 - year duration.

When writing it, I was on some level thinking about the mass incarceration of black people in this country.

Director Ava DuVernay may have been snubbed for a Best Director nomination two years ago, but she was duly recognized this year for helming Netflix's searing documentary about mass incarceration of black people in the United States.

«Filly Brown»: A hip - hop - driven drama about a Mexican girl who rises to fame and consciousness as she copes with the incarceration of her mother through music.

Steven Soderbergh's return to feature filmmaking is a leisurely paced tall tale about a racetrack robbery, with Channing Tatum and Adam Driver as smart, soulful bumpkins, Riley Keough as their can - do sister, and Daniel Craig as the mad criminal genius whose usefulness to their operation is impeded by his incarceration.

But Shandre Delaney, a 57 - year - old protester from Pittsburgh, said she was more interested in hearing about Hillary Clinton's policy proposals to demilitarize police departments and end mass incarceration.

In a peculiar casting choice, Lee has the actor playing a community priest spouting facts to his congregation about per - capita income disparity, the prison industrial complex («mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow,» he spits into a microphone) and a brief overview of black history and oppression.

Just as intriguing is the excellent casting of Frances Farmer as the sultry, yet sharp - willed first cousin Ben intends to marry (the whole romance seems to ignore any worries about spawning three - eyed blinkies), whose last completed film this proved to be before her mental breakdown, and incarceration in a mental institution (vividly depicted in the 1982 bio-drama Frances.)

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

Other items had nothing at all to do with education but, being champions of «social justice,» the activists came up with an NBI which proposes to inform the public about the dangers of fracking, another that calls for the end of «food deserts» (don't ask) and one that wants President Obama to investigate the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man who was convicted of first - degree murder in the slaying of two FBI agents in 1977.

Many teachers I have encountered express profound concerns about providing leadership for the study and discussion of events in history such as the Holocaust, slavery, the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and «60s, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

In the next 20 years, children at St. Marcus Lutheran Schools will generate an aggregate benefit of about $ 7 million due to the school's low incarceration rate and $ 64 million due to their high graduation rate.

With the support of the Open Society Foundations, Professor Forman is currently writing a book about African - American attitudes towards crime and punishment in the age of mass incarceration.

I have also seen firsthand how difficult being a child in America can be, and how abstract policies affect my kids in very real, sometimes painful, ways: how food insecurity can drive families to our school's monthly food shelf, how incarceration inequity has many of my students writing personal narratives about visiting fathers and uncles in prison, how immigration laws left one of my students trying to hide his tears over his mother's possible deportation.

Use these activities and resources on Japanese American incarceration during World War II to introduce students to this history while exploring questions about American identity, racism, and citizenship.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.