Sentences with phrase «highest incarceration rates»

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.

-- «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.»

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.

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.

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.

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 reason we have such high incarceration rates in the US is mostly due to how and why we incarcerate people — not «diversity».

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

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Minority communities in the United States have yet to generate a large cadre of high achievers, a situation as discouraging as the high incarceration rates among minorities who never finish high school.

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

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.

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.

With more than 61,000 inmates in the Oklahoma prison system, we have the second highest incarceration rate in the country; are prisons are at 119 % + capacity; and 77 % of Oklahomans personally know someone who has been sent to a correctional facility.

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.»

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.

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

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.

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

«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.

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.

Oxfam Australia's Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said there was 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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

That's the second - highest rate of per capita incarceration in the world, second only to the Seychelles.

The DA is a powerful position in Philadelphia, a city with the highest rate of incarceration, the highest poverty rate, and the third highest violent crime rate of the US's 10 most populated cities.

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

Before the era of mass incarceration, there was already evidence linking problems in poor neighborhoods to the high number of single - parent households and also to the high rate of mobility: the continual turnover on many blocks as transients moved in and out.

Like other women in communities with high rates of incarceration, she faced a shortage of potential mates.

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

I would like to hear Mikee's explanation as to why the more secular G20 countries have lower crime and murder rates than the US, why atheists have lower incarceration rates than religitards, and why the red states have higher crime, divorce and teen pregnancy rates than the blues states.

We, in the land of the «free» sadly, do have the highest, and / or, one of the higest, incarceration rates in the world.

Incarceration rates tend to be higher in Southern states which are often more rural as well.

We have one of the higher rates of incarceration in the civilized world.

We've spent billions of dollars, locked up so many people we have a higher rate of incarceration than the Soviet Union did, done real harm to some of our most fundamental Constitutional protections, and for what?

Massive increases in incarceration rates and the general decline of working - class jobs have devastated the labor market prospects of men with a high school degree or less, the authors say.

Women have significantly higher rates of Alzheimer's disease, depression, which is itself is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, and anxiety disorders, while men have higher rates of (ADHD), conduct - related problems, and incarceration (by 1,400 %).

For example, Georgia and Minnesota have high rates of people on felony probation, though Minnesota is a low incarceration state.

In previous studies, the researchers showed that CPC program participants have attained higher incomes, and experienced lower rates of serious crime, incarceration, and depression than participants of other programs.

Chronicling the history of racial inequality in the United States, The 13th examines how our country has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with the majority of those imprisoned being African - American.