Sentences with phrase «incarcerates more»

He explains: «The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world.

America incarcerates more women than any other country in the world.

When the U.S. incarcerated more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast during World War II, librarian Clara Breed made a difference in their lives by sending letters and care packages to them while they were interred.

On American freedom: «It's amazing that in the land of the free, we incarcerate more people than anywhere else in the world.»

The newspaper's multi-part series is entitled Crime and Punishment and looks at popular perceptions of crime rates, the costs of incarcerating more people, the impact of tougher criminal laws on poor and aboriginal Canadians, crime in the suburbs, etc..

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As required by the nonprofit's by - laws, more than half of the Fortune Society's staff and at least a third of its board share with Kozlowski the experience of having been incarcerated, providing role models to those they serve.

Each State would then have a larger workforce for keeping highways clean or public cemeteries mowed and spend far less on keeping people incarcerated and you get to keep more in your pocket.

«But as much as I fear that, I even more fear them being incarcerated for it.

«Mr. Jeffs, although presumed innocent, has now been incarcerated for more than four years on charges that, given the [Utah] supreme court's opinion clarifying the law in Utah, will be difficult if not impossible for the state to sustain,» defense attorneys wrote in the motion filed in Utah's Third District Court earlier this month.

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.

America imprisons more people than any nation on the planet, and half of them are incarcerated for drug - related crimes.

It's lead to tens of thousands of Christians being incarcerated in labour camps, and thousands more keeping their faith in Christ a complete secret.

They not only earn more, on average, but they also have more stable families, better health, and less chance of being arrested or incarcerated.

These are just children who live in America that we ought to invest in their future because if we do a good job, we won't end up having to pay 10 times more to keep this child incarcerated in a jail or a prison.

The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.

Gangi believes the city can reduce the incarcerated population much more quickly by moving away from broken windows policing.

It would make the animals more adoptable, therefore cutting back on a high number of animals that are euthanized in Onondaga County, and it would offer inmates an opportunity to work with these animals, which in other programs, has led to better behavior among the incarcerated and lowered recidivism.

«I think what we're doing more is arming our citizens with information for people that have been known to engage in terrorist - type activity, that may be out of jail and no longer incarcerated,» Gallivan said.

He cited a recent Newsday report, which showed that racial and ethnic minorities on Long Island were far more likely than whites to be arrested and incarcerated, as reason to consider an «outside perspective, who will bring about the change that needs to happen.»

Solitary Watch estimates 80,000 to 100,000 incarcerated people are held in some form of isolated confinement at any time in the United States, most spending 23 or more hours a day in their cells.

The bills rolled out on Wednesday as part of a bipartisan heroin task force include legislation that would allocate more funding to hire specialists at veterans treatment courts, end a ban on Medicaid reimbursement for drug treatment for incarcerated addicts, crack down on «doctor shopping» for pain medications and expand access to medication - assisted treatment for pregnant and postpartum women, among others.

For decades, the United States» prison population has grown exponentially and today, more than two million Americans are incarcerated.

A new law counts them in their home districts, and not in the communities where they're incarcerated — a change that the GOP says benefits Democrat - leaning downstate regions at the expense of more rural Republican - held upstate districts.

During her talk, Altimus said she learned during her fellowship that more than 75 % of people who were incarcerated are arrested again within five years, and that 83 % of inmates have a mental health or substance abuse problem.

But those already addicted need more help staying off drugs and having productive lives, especially those who become incarcerated, experts said at a Capitol Hill briefing organized by AAAS and the Dana Foundation.

She found that symptoms of depression, anxiety and guilt were more severe for those participants incarcerated during their follow up period.

In Chicago, we found that the number of incarcerated residents is more than 40 times higher in some black communities compared with those in white communities.

African - Americans appear to be particularly susceptible: In 2011, they were six times more likely than whites to be incarcerated, making up 38 % of the 1.6 million Americans behind bars while accounting for only 13 % of the U.S. population.

I am a 23 year old male that is incarcerated at Anamosa State Prison for a short time looking for a pen pal to get me through some rough times, possible more.

The Logan brothers — whose family's streak for misfortune gives the film its ironic title — recruit incarcerated safe - cracker Joe Bang (Craig) for the job, and breaking him out of prison ends up as one more spoke on this plan's spinning wheel.

The quintet that stole from the rich to give to the poor — and also managed to pull off the far more feasible feat of incarcerating a black man (Morgan Freeman)-- in the first movie has been brought out of retirement...

Like The Handmaid's Tale, the story starts in the middle of Grace's imprisonment, after she's been incarcerated for more than a decade in Kingston Penitentiary.

And there would be money for the state — on behalf of we the people — to incarcerate Eddie in a juvenile prison, at a cost of more than $ 50,000 a year.

Similarly, when Knewton announced in November that it was partnering with Houghton Miflin to deliver adaptive learning in math, science, and language arts to incarcerated students, a few people snickered to me and wondered why the company wasn't going after something more ambitious in the heart of schooling.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Black children are 7.5 times more likely and Hispanic children 2.5 times more likely than white children to have an incarcerated parent.

Moreover, fostered — youth are more likely to become homeless, incarcerated, or dependent on social services.

A high school dropout is 5 - 8x more likely to be incarcerated than a college graduate.

Once suspended, students are more likely to drop out of school and be incarcerated.

Once suspended or expelled, students are more likely to drop out of school and be incarcerated.

Nothing is more important than going to college, even if we must sometimes incarcerate the little monsters to get them there!

Students who are suspended or expelled are more likely to drop out and end up incarcerated.

Students in classrooms across Southern Illinois face profound obstacles to learning due to «Adverse Childhood Experiences» or ACEs, which include one or more of the following: verbal, physical or sexual abuse; family dysfunction (an incarcerated, mentally ill, or substance - abusing family member); domestic violence; or absence of a parent because of divorce or separation.

More than two million Americans are incarcerated, and they are overwhelmingly the poor.

Lucius Coulouten of the Prison Policy Initiative says video visitation is «a dehumanizing experience» run by «an exploitative industry that hurts incarcerated people more than it helps them.»

Bouncing people around to various parts of the system, and then eventually incarcerating them is, it turns out, more expensive.

If you have ever wanted to know more about the daily life of a prisoner, how our legal system works or why the number of women incarcerated has increased by 300 % in the last 10 years, then you have to read this book.

According to PrisonFellowship.org, «Children with a parent in jail or prison are teased more often at school and «may internalize the stigma and experience lower self - esteem, especially if they identify with the incarcerated parent... Others may react with anger, defiance, and a desire for retaliation against those who reject and taunt them.

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