Sentences with phrase «declining jail population»

In light of recent demographic trends predicting declining jail population, we are concerned that the proposed design is too large.

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The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

If African Americans and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates as whites, prison and jail populations would decline by almost 40 %.