Sentences with phrase «are violent offenders»

«70 % of our inmate population are violent offenders,» said Rowe.

«Seventy percent of our inmate population are violent offenders,» said Rowe.

Better intensive alternatives to custody, to make sure prison is for those who are violent offenders, those who are persistent offenders.

Second, the researchers assumed that maltreatment of young boys increases the risk that they will grow up exhibiting antisocial symptoms and being violent offenders — that a social environment of victimization exerts a strong influence toward becoming a victimizer.

Your criminal record will record that you are a violent offender.

Not exact matches

It is also unacceptable that dangerous and violent offenders are released into our communities before serving their full sentences.

@dogs2: laws meant to protect you from harm, i.e. refusing to issue a weapons permit to a convicted violent offender is a good law.

Now, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services reports, «a large number of violent offenders are serving two, three or four times longer under truth - in - sentencing than criminals who committed similar offenses under the parole system.»

George Carlin did not at all reference anyone who is GLBT, but child molesters / rapists, druggies, violent crime offenders, etc..

Ministers promised to toughen up measures after it emerged 1,013 foreign prisoners had not been considered for deportation in 2006, including serious sexual and violent offenders.

France, the Netherlands and Germany all use GPS tracking on some high risk sexual and violent offenders, but mostly we are talking low hundreds - and often less than a 100.

He confirmed that five of the 540 most serious offenders had been checked by employers when they were not on the database, but none of these had been convicted for serious or violent crimes.

«The first thing that people think about when you talk about sealing records is the fact that you don't want violent offenders or people who've committed egregious crimes to hide behind some altruistic strategy,» Soares said in a news conference in his office.

Offenders who committed or conspired to commit violent crimes such as a murder and sexual offenses would be ineligible as would someone whose conviction was not at least 10 years old.

This won't be made any easier if prisons are violent places where offenders are left to fester.

Gordon Brown repeatedly defended the prisoner early release scheme today amid accusations from the Conservatives that violent offenders have been released early.

ALBANY — The state Senate plans to pass a bill Monday named after an NYPD officer killed in the line of duty that is intended to keep repeat violent offenders...

In addition to setting an offender's risk level, a judge determines whether an offender should be designated as a sexual predator, sexually violent offender or predicate sex offender.

Ministers have maintained offenders convicted of violent or sexual crimes will not be eligible for early release but today's figures show 3,000 prisoners were released early while serving time for violent crimes.

However, the government is adamant that none of the 540 violent or sexual offenders whose records have not been updated have reoffended, although it does say that nine other criminals have «probably» slipped through the net.

The latest Home Office blunder did not result in any violent or sexual offenders being passed fit for employment, John Reid has confirmed.

In their study into the electronic tagging of adult offenders, the MPs also reveal that 562 assaults were committed by those on home detention curfews - despite the fact that sexual and violent offenders are prohibited from the scheme.

Assemblyman Mickey Kearns is seeking a state investigation into how sex offenders were placed in two West Seneca group homes after the release of records showing several violent and disturbing incidents at the homes.

«However imprisonment should continue to be used to protect the public from the most serious offenders - those who are violent, dangerous or seriously persistent.»

Andrew Cuomo says now the prison population is shrinking, due to changing demographics, and reform of the Rockefeller Drug laws, which has led to fewer non violent drug offenders being incarcerated.

«It makes no sense whatsoever to put felons - violent, repeat offenders - back into the very neighborhoods where they got in trouble in the first place, without any evidence that they will be properly supervised.

... It is a fact that many of our corrections facilities have become more overcrowded with a higher proportion of violent offenders than ever before, and any policy changes must prioritize the security of everyone who works and resides in these institutions.»

In addition, offenders serving sentences of between three months and four years, with certain exceptions for violent and sexual offenders, may also be eligible for release on a home detention curfew (HDC).

«The vast majority of juvenile offenders are treated as children already in New York and it doesn't need to change,» he said, adding that prison is typically treated as a last resort unless they commit violent crimes that should not be treated as juvenile.

«Until the new U.S. Attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. Attorney's offices will continue the great work of the Department in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring the most violent offenders.»

Mr Grieve said: «Conservatives would deploy more police on the streets to catch and deter violent offenders, ensure more prison places so that serious violent offenders who should be in jail are in jail and tackle the long term causes of crime which lead to so much tragic violence.»

Those who are released will be closely monitored for a longer period - up to eight years for sex offenders and up to five years for violent offenders.

Parole board chairman Duncan Nichol said: «We have taken another good hard look at the violent offender who has been a «model prisoner».»

That's why we've toughened sentencing, including for the most serious violent and sexual offenders, and rightly so.

We need to be providing early intervention before violent adult jails harden adolescent offenders into lifelong criminals,» she said.

«It makes no sense whatsoever to put violent, repeat offenders back into the very neighborhoods where they got in trouble in the first place, without any evidence that they will be properly supervised.»

The report also calls for allowing the records of most youthful offenders to be sealed if they don't reoffend, although records of violent felonies committed by anyone 16 or older could be unsealed and used as a predicate in sentencing for any subsequent violent felony.

He also called for new restrictions on foreign criminals who can not be deported and a new violent offenders register to keep track of dangerous individuals.

«Until the new U.S. attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. attorney's offices will continue the great work of the department in investigating, prosecuting and deterring the most violent offenders,» she said in a statement.

The potentially life - saving Brittany's Law, which combats domestic violence by creating a registry of violent felony offenders, has inexplicably been held up by the Assembly Majority, and deserves a full vote on the floor of the Assembly.

If this were true, then someday we might be able to treat someone who's a habitual violent sexual offender by functionally disentangling their neurons.

He understood that many were violent criminals, but even repeat offenders tended to do only short prison stints, or they were released from psychiatric hospitals because they were diagnostically sane, displaying «a perfect mask of genuine sanity, a flawless surface indicative in every respect of robust mental health.»

But that is not the case for other violent offenders.

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Serotonin appears to help keep us civil; it's reduced in the brains of violent offenders, for example.

He hypothesized that the lower cholesterol levels in the violent offenders could be «a consequence of enhanced insulin secretion and that high insulin levels are responsible for violent behavior.»

This is more common in habitually violent offenders in Finland.

References: 1: Virkkunen M (1982) Reactive hypoglycemia tendency among habitually violent offenders.

Murderers, rapists and violent offenders from across Europe have been able to remain in Britain after their crimes, the Justice Minister will say on Need to Register or Re-register your Vespa?

Starred up refers to young offenders whose conduct is so violent that they're prematurely transferred from a juvenile institution to an adult one.