Sentences with phrase «declining prison populations»

There was a short period of declining prison populations from 1981, when fines, community sentences and cautions were increasingly used as alternative punishments.

The administration's position on drugs and immigration could reverse declining prison populations.

He has cited a declining prison population due to a downturn in violent crime.

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Since 1999, the state's prison population has declined by 30 percent, to approximately 45,500 inmates.

The agency says violent crime is also declining, and the overall prison population has shrunk by one quarter since a high point in 1999.

Cuomo has proposed reducing the number of beds in the state's minimum and medium security prisons to better match a decline of 20 percent in the prison population over the last 11 years.

But Cuomo's Department of Corrections decided on a slow summer Friday afternoon, and five weeks after the legislative session ended, to announce that four prisons would be shuttered by July 26, 2014, citing a declining inmate population.

«This is while New York's prison population has dramatically declined and 13 other prisons have been closed.

In recent years, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pushed for the closure of state prisons, citing an inmate population decline of more than 17,000 since 1999.

After closing 13 prisons in his first term, Governor Cuomo has not closed any since 2013, even while the state prison population has continued to decline.

The New York State Department of Community and Correctional Supervision has claimed that as crime rates decline and inmate populations decrease, taxpayers can not afford to continue paying for empty prison beds.

But Governor Cuomo's Department of Corrections decided, on a slow summer Friday afternoon, five weeks after the legislative session ended, to announce that four prisons would be shuttered by July 26th, 2014, citing a declining inmate population.

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

Since the release of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 there has been an increase in the overall national adult prison, but a decline in the juvenile prison population.