Sentences with phrase «high incarceration rates»

The issue has gained more traction throughout 2016, as discussions of disproportionately high incarceration rates among minority men have captured widespread media attention.

With no differences between the two hypothetical groups other than the length of the sentence, even 3 extra months in prison led to higher incarceration rates over time.

Caire and the Urban League say the school is needed because of the dismal performance of minority students in public schools in Madison, along with high incarceration rates of young African American men in Dane County.

This marriage - gap has been explained by high incarceration rates among black men, reducing their income and marriage prospects for the future, and the growing divide in education rates between black women and black men.

«The Turnbull Government has provided no new money to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians faced with shorter life expectancy and dramatically higher incarceration rates.

It's a compelling idea (enough to sway a key ally played by Daniel Kaluuya), and a reminder that throughout the African diaspora, the black - white power balance remains as it is courtesy of Jim Crow practices designed to keep minorities in check: persistent segregation, broken drug laws, racially targeted policing, disproportionately high incarceration rates — all of which are identified and indicted by Coogler's truth - to - power script.

The Crikey piece by Chris Graham (ex the National Indigenous Times) on the criminally high incarceration rates of Aboriginal people has drawn some heated comment on the Crikey website.

Meanwhile the Labor government intends to close the gap by unveiling three targets that promise to end high incarceration rates of Indigenous people, increase the number of Aboriginal people in higher education and ensure coverage of disabled Aboriginal people by DisabilityCare Australia, Patricia Karvelas reports for The Australian.

«As a long advocate and campaigner against the distressingly high incarceration rates of my people I am heartened by the actions of the Court and confident that the RAP will make a difference.

«The record - high incarceration rate in the U.S. has been inflated further by federal prison sentences for people whose only crime is stepping across the border.

This is exacerbated by high incarceration rate, that further increases children with only one parent to raise them.

The state, which has the highest incarceration rate in the country, is feeling the pressure of a massive criminal justice budget, and is already slashing funds for public defenders.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world — with 25 % of the world's prisoners held there.

My point is, if a belief in hell reduces crime, than why is it that christards and muzzies, who both believe in hell, have higher incarceration rates than atheists, who do not believe in hell.

The United States currently has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world, housing 22 percent of all of the prisoners on the entire planet.

We don't just have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world — we have the highest of all the countries that report their prison numbers!

«The goal of the Commission is to create a venue to explore the ways the state's drug policies and justice system generally have lead to high incarceration rates and, in effect, legal discrimination against those with criminal records — especially within the black and Latino communities,» said Hawkins.

As in, the idea that there should be major changes to the criminal justice system because of its high incarceration rate and high racial disparity.

High incarceration rates can also have unintended effects at the neighborhood level.

Pearlstein does strike a new note, not commonly seen among advocates of strong and stable families, when he raises the issue of the high incarceration rate in the United States generally, and the exceptionally high rates for blacks, which take so many black men out of the marriage market.

Certainly, Hispanics suffer discrimination, some of it severe — police harassment of black and brown adolescents, accompanied by high incarceration rates, and the nativist - driven rollback of bilingual education programs come to mind — but the undeniable hardship faced by recent, non-English speaking, unskilled, low - wage immigrants is not equivalent to blacks» centuries of lower - caste status.

The United States boasts the world's highest incarceration rate, with a staggering 24 percent of the world's total prison population, in easily the most widespread example of punishment masquerading as reform.

That number it outrageously large, making the United States the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world.

The film looks at the privatization of the prison system, «exposing the conflict between for - profit corporations focused on pleasing investors and the communities which must deal with the consequences of high incarceration rates.»

The city, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, has steadily reduced the number of people in jail over the past six years.

Although the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world — 676 inmates per 100,000 people, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime — Specter thinks Americans still have a lot to learn about how to prepare prisoners for life on the outside.

It's not a new story: we've known about the high incarceration rate in the United States for many years now.

In Louisiana and Mississippi, the two states with the highest incarceration rates in the world, Innocence Project New Orleans frees innocent prisoners, exposes injustice and prevents wrongful convictions.

-- «America, with one of the highest incarceration rates on the planet, has to yet to reap the crime - free panacea that should surely have resulted from their decades of get - tough - on - crime legislation.»

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, holding a quarter of all the prisoners on the entire planet.

Jonathan Rudin explains the culture clash theory for the higher incarceration rates in Aboriginal Peoples and the Criminal Justice System,

Because of this, companies with a blanket policy that excludes anyone with convictions might be considered discriminatory because certain races have higher incarceration rates than other races.

A scathing indictment of Australia's failure to address the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been published in an international journal, BMJ Globa... Read more

A scathing indictment of Australia's failure to address the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been publishe... Read more

The fact is that Australia has the highest incarceration rate and the highest suicide rate of Indigenous Peoples on the planet.

Young, unmarried, and lacking in education, these men face a multitude of barriers to being the fathers they want to be, from poor employment prospects and high incarceration rates, to juggling multiple parenting roles among the children they live with and the ones with whom they do not.

Professor Dodson said mandatory sentencing, imprisonment for fine defaults, «paperless» arrest laws, tough bail and parole conditions and punitive sentencing regimes had all contributed to high incarceration rates, along with funding cuts to frontline legal services and inadequate resourcing for much needed diversionary programs (read more here in the Fairfax report of his speech).

A scathing indictment of Australia's failure to address the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been published in an international journal, BMJ Global Health.

We need to address issues such as family violence, suicide, high incarceration rates and lateral violence, which includes bullying in communities and bullying in community organisations.

Issues such as family and lateral violence, suicide and high incarceration rates, bullying in communities and community organisations, are all issues that undermine the development of healthy internal relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples individually and collectively.

At the same time, indigenous peoples continue to initiate community responses to high incarceration rates.