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The reason this article and its subsequent public interpretation was historic can be easily seen in the impact it had on incarceration rates in the US.

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

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.

I wanted to join IndyTeach to stop the rising incarceration rates in the United States, the highest in the world.

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

We are alarmed by statistics that show high poverty levels as well as high unemployment and incarceration rates in Milwaukee.

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

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

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 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.

«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.

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 United States has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world.

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.

By comparison, the incarceration rate in England and Wales was 148, and in the United States the adult rate stood at 738 (the United States excludes youth from its rate)».

By comparison, the incarceration rate in England and Wales was 148, and in the United States the adult rate stood at 738 (the United States

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

We join with the Annie E. Casey Foundation in raising awareness of the declining youth incarceration rate in the United States.

Indifference provides a key explanation of why there is a growing Indigenous incarceration rate in Australia and other parts of the world.

Not exact matches

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

In his 1994 study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.

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.

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.

Epidemiologists have found that when the incarceration rate rises in a county, there tends to be a subsequent increase in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy, possibly because women have less power to require their partners to practice protected sex or remain monogamous.

The poverty, abuse and incarceration rates for kids who have spent time in orphanages is exponentially greater.

As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose.

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.

In measurable ways — infant mortality rates, unemployment, incarceration rates, etc. — African - Americans are at a disadvantage.

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.

In 2010, teen pregnancy and childbirth accounted for at least $ 9.4 billion in costs to U.S. taxpayers for increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen motherIn 2010, teen pregnancy and childbirth accounted for at least $ 9.4 billion in costs to U.S. taxpayers for increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen motherin costs to U.S. taxpayers for increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen mothers.

«Today, New York City has the lowest incarceration rate of all large U.S. cities and crime rates continue to fall, proving that a large city can have small jails and safe communities,» the mayor said in an emailed statement.

He believes in the power of the people, as evidenced by his steadfast support for Participatory Budgeting, reducing incarceration rates and taking to the streets against the 1 % during Flood Wall Street; he helps to empower the people to act.

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

The six - point plan, which also called for reducing incarceration rates and investing in schools to close what King termed the «school to prison pipeline,» is the broadest package yet proposed by Democratic gubernatorial candidates, though they all have pushed various justice reform issues, particularly Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.

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

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.

But the subsequent, expansive closure of mental health facilities, fragmentation of outpatient health care services and growing difficulties in finding housing (increasing homelessness and incarceration rates) and support for persons with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses have adversely impacted longevity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this study I explore this question using data from the Charlotte - Mecklenburg (North Carolina) school district (CMS) to measure the impact of school quality on arrest and incarceration rates.

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 costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.