Sentences with phrase «incarceration rates»

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 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.

Can vouchers allowing low - income students to attend private schools lower incarceration rates?

He specializes in criminal justice issues, specifically reducing incarceration rates.

They called for the introduction of justice targets, investment into generating evidence for policy innovations, and sustainable funding for Indigenous programs in order to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates.

In no circumstances should the conditions of poverty become one of the driving factors for increasing incarceration rates, the removal of children, poor health and violence.

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

The tables are filled with revealing information about incarceration rates, military expenditures and many other indicators of social priorities.

But lead's effects on a child's brain are permanent and are linked to issues ranging from learning disabilities, poor mental health and elevated incarceration rates.

When the virtual inmates were imprisoned for 17 months, incarceration rates throughout the community climbed steadily until just under 3 % of the population was in jail 50 years later.

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.

That's particularly important for the groups we now identify as pressure points: young people and women whose incarceration rates are rising.

But you may not know that Indigenous incarceration rates across the country are higher now than then.

They wrote 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.

In the past, private prison firms worked with the group to draft «three - strikes» legislation and other policies that increased incarceration rates.

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.

However, one recent conference examining the Magna Carta legacy did acknowledge the «justice gap», describing the increasing incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as «one of the most significant social problems anywhere in the developed world».

Examining eight indicators of children's well - being, the center found that the juvenile - incarceration rate rose by 41 percent since 1979, and the proportion of children in poverty has increased by 26 percent over that period.

When incarceration rates in a neighborhood get so high, it becomes an expectation for its members to wind up incarcerated.

[114] C Cunneen in M McLaughlin, «Indigenous incarceration rate jumps», 7.30 Report, 6 July 2009.

Juvenile crime rates are plummeting, and the juvenile incarceration rate dropped 41 percent between 1995 and 2010.

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.

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

for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people aged 20 to 34, incarceration rates declined as the education and employment situation improved.

When the model was run indefinitely, it leveled off at incarceration rates of 1 % using the shorter sentence and 7 % using the longer sentence — a figure that mirrors the difference in rates of white and black incarceration in the United States today.

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Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has vowed to act to close the huge gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous incarceration rates, saying the issue will be pursued at the first meeting of federal and state leaders under a Shorten government, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Tomorrow (Saturday), the National Justice Coalition and ANTaR will hold a panel discussion with leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experts about a national approach to address incarceration rates and violence, particularly against women and children.

Latino and Native incarceration rates are roughly proportional with the overall US population.

Mr. Colson argues that «there is no relationship between incarceration rates and crime rates» and that «we have tried that [lock - «em - up] approach and it has failed.»

Trump's «get tough» rhetoric echoes the rhetoric of the «War On Drugs» of the 1980s that helped incarceration rates to soar in America.

Then you can just keep clicking through to the later cards until you get to something, like incarceration rates or recidivism, that you don't know as much about.

Prison populations grew steadily for decades until just a few years ago when declining crime rates, (which have fallen since the 1990s), and state budget concerns led a movement towards «smarter» sentencing and controlling incarcerations rates.

US has the largest incarceration rate of any country with 1 in 100 being in prison or incarceration.

In the test for which the shorter sentence was used, incarceration rates actually declined from the starting point of 1 % for about the first 5 years and then increased only very slightly, to 0.725 %, for the 50 - year duration.

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Kentucky has among the highest juvenile justice incarceration rates in the country.

Oklahoma's female incarceration rate is roughly 243 % higher than the national average of 64 per 100,000 women.

Thomasos became fascinated with the prison architecture that began to grow as the United States's incarceration rate climbed after Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971 and skyrocketed after Reagan's 1984 Sentencing Reform Act.

Tune in to hear Herman and Moore debate and discuss the colossal incarceration rate, the profit motives of private prisons, the politics behind it all, and the impact on prisoners» rights.

In most of the civilized world, incarceration rates hover around.1 %, or about one person in prison for every thousand that aren't.

The gender distribution for anti-social personalities is 74 % male 26 % female, which interestingly enough mirrors incarceration rates.

At a time where incarceration rates are soaring and budgets are tight, this program will be a unique opportunity for legal practitioners, policymakers, and members of the public to engage in a dialogue about fair and effective sentencing in the criminal justice system.

This record of incarceration rates obviously can not instil a sense of pride.