Sentences with phrase «incarceration contribute»

Minister Wyatt's analysis and comments relating to health and incarceration contribute to a sense that he «gets it».

Poverty, disadvantage, unemployment, racism, lack of housing / overcrowding, transgenerational trauma and issues around incarceration contribute to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides.

Mounting international evidence now shows that incarceration contributes to still more incarceration.

Not exact matches

And when communities are hostile to former prisoners, they contribute to the cycle of incarceration in our country.

The accelerated rates of incarceration in the U.S. are contributing to strained federal and state budgets and disrupted family life in communities across the nation.

She has also contributed her expertise and leadership to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100, the Executive Committee of the National Association of Manufacturing's State Associations Group, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's High - Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Advisory Panel; the Foundation for Land and Liberty; Rensselaer County Alternatives to Incarceration, Binghamton University's Alumni Association; and the Susan Odell Taylor school.

He wants to fight to end cash bail and pass speedy trial reform, two issues that contribute to the continued mass incarceration of communities of color.

In his campaign literature, Lasher says, «We have seen a disturbing rise in school discipline policies that rely on fear and shame; are used to push students out of schools, either directly or indirectly; are too often implemented in racially disparate ways; and which can be the starting point for the school - to - prison pipeline that has contributed to the mass incarceration of young men of color.»

Drug policy has focused on a policing approach of prohibition and incarceration, which has contributed to spreading HIV within the injection - drug community.

Lum cautions that in the real world, other factors besides sentence duration likely contribute to differences in incarceration rates.

It seems Wolfmann's wife — who is aware of their affair — may be plotting to have her husband committed to the «looney bin», and is applying a heady amount of pressure on Shasta to contribute to his incarceration.

In «Graduation Rates on the Rise,» authors Richard J. Murnane and Stephen L. Hoffman report that improved K 8 education, decreased teen birth rates, and lower incarceration rates all may have contributed to the rise in graduation rates after 2000.

Unfortunately, adults can not get it right that every child deserves a free high quality education: society has contributed to expanding poverty, deferring dreams, under educating, over policing, over reliance of out - of - school suspensions, push - outs, extremely low graduation for student of color, and arrest and incarceration can be used interchangeable at schools.

The project investigates the range of factors contributing to cycles of police confrontation and incarceration, while questioning how images of people caught in those cycles are constructed through the media.

The Court recognized that these conditions, along with racism and bias, had contributed to the grossly disproportionate incidence of crime and incarceration amongst Aboriginal peoples, which it described as a «crisis» in the criminal justice system.

This article argues that each of the major decision - makers in the federal sentencing process, Congress, the United States Sentencing Commission and the federal judiciary contribute substantially to mass incarceration.

Another point of confusion concerns different sentences that the article lumps together as contributing to mass incarceration.

(4) As highlighted in the Social Justice Report 2002, incarceration can contribute to an Indigenous woman becoming dislocated from her family, community, cultural responsibilities, services she may have been accessing prior to incarceration and housing.

This contributes further to the low self - esteem and mental health problems, as well as ensuring pathways to non-participation and incarceration.

Driver licensing and fines enforcement has been identified as contributing to the incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC).

Selective use of evidence, overlooking the root causes of incarceration, and ignoring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's evidence all contribute to lack of accountability, and lack of progress.

The ALRC also emphasised that barriers to attaining a driver licence need to be addressed to reduce unauthorised driving behaviour that contributes to the disproportionate incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This loss contributes to the high rates of incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The Report found that «the single significant contributing factor to incarceration is the disadvantaged and unequal position of Aboriginal people in Australian society in every way, whether socially, economically or culturally.»

Recognise the role of colonisation in contributing to incarceration rates and acknowledge how this history plays out in the present.

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).

These and other episodes of medical incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can be seen as archetypal examples of the role of health care professionals and systems in colonisation, contributing to intergenerational traumas.

Undertaking an independent review of laws and policies which contribute to unequal incarceration rates, working to fix the problems in the system.

«The compounded effect of these policies has contributed to the failure to deliver on the targets in the areas of health, education and employment in the Closing the Gap strategy and has contributed to aggravating the escalating incarceration and child removal rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.»

NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Tauto Sansbury linked all the themes together, explaining his own journey and how barriers to Self - determination and Treaty contribute to incarceration.

• Recognition of the role of colonisation in contributing to incarceration rates and acknowledgement / understanding of how this history plays out in the present.

[12] This plan would address the deleterious effects of the long - term, secular decline in earnings that has so decimated low - wage workers and has contributed, to some extent, to the high rates of incarceration, low marriage rates, and the large number of children growing up in poor, single - parent families.

The overwhelming research shows that disadvantaged children who receive a high - quality early childhood education are more likely to earn higher wages, live healthier lives, avoid incarceration, raise stronger families and contribute to society.

She went on to explain that she saw this as a key contributing factor undermining governments» ability to deliver on health, education and employment targets, and to aggravating the escalating incarceration and child removal rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples [11].

Removing children from early learning environments also stigmatizes young individuals, contributing to numerous adverse social and educational outcomes.4 Research shows that young children who are suspended or expelled are more likely to experience academic failure and hold negative attitudes toward school, which contributes to a greater likelihood of dropping out of school and incarceration.5

For example, in New South Wales, the Select Committee into the Increase in Prison Population found in 2001 that the most significant contributing factor to increases in the rates of incarceration of Indigenous women was the increase in the remand population.

Ms Tauli - Corpuz said the «compounded effect» of government policy has «contributed to the failure to deliver on the targets in the areas of health, education and employment in the Closing the Gap strategy and has contributed to aggravating the escalating incarceration and child removal rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders».