Sentences with phrase «increasing incarceration»

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.

It is not always to the offender that we need to look to understand the causes of increasing incarceration.

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».

We've often learned from our American cousins about what worked and didn't work: this looks like their experiment in increasing incarceration was a massive failure.

This report demonstrates that when other variables are controlled for, increasing incarceration had a minimal effect on reducing property crime in the 1990s and no effect on violent crime.

Considering we have Trump, his GOP, and the ghouls he appointed to Attorney General and the FCC chair, it's probably a great investment for rich cocksuckers looking for a windfall from more freedom ™ less regulation and increased incarceration.

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 mothers.

ALBANY — Some drug - addiction treatment organizations are opposing Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposal to expand the laws on fentanyl, saying it will increase incarcerations and won't save lives.

His pioneering of the broken windows approach, which targets minor offenses, has been credited both with decreases in crime and increases incarceration.

Boston University economics professor Kevin Lang's 2013 study, «The School to Prison Pipeline Exposed,» links increases in the use of high - stakes standardized high school exit exams to increased incarceration rates.

Boston University economics professor Kevin Lang's 2013 study The School - to - Prison Pipeline Exposed reveals that increases in the use of high - stakes standardized high school exit exams are linked to increased incarceration rates.

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

But overall, the costs, increased incarceration while crime levels are decreasing, and doing away with judicial discretion on sentencing seem to be the main sticking points.

In Boyd, Judge Posner and the Seventh Circuit is doing all the investigation (about a state crime, no less) to justify the defendant's increased incarceration.

In the 2000s, increased incarceration had no effect on violent crime and accounted for less than one - hundredth of the decade's property crime drop.

ACEs weaken brain development in children and lead to higher health care costs, increased incarceration rates, lost work time, and poor mental health across the lifespan.

Studies have shown that ACEs lead to higher health care costs, increased incarceration, lost work time, and poor mental health later in life.

Not exact matches

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

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.

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.

In contrast, what we are seeing today is the increasing arrest, incarceration, and confinement of theology.

The majority of religious people are remaining silent on the rapid increase in incarceration and even more quiet on the unfair, racially imbalanced and bankrupting threat of America's drug laws.

When that happens, we as a society benefit with a stronger, more prepared workforce, increased school success, and reduced incarceration and remedial education costs.

At 9 a.m., the Vera Institute of Justice hosts Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Reduce Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration, Tumblr Inc., 35 E. 21st St., Manhattan.

Cuomo said even with a Republican Senate, he's achieved passage of marriage equality, an increase in the minimum wage, paid family leave and raising the age of incarceration in state prisons from age 16 to 18.

Prominent police chiefs and prosecutors fear that the new administration is out of step with evidence that public safety depends on building trust, increasing mental health and drug addiction treatment, and using alternatives to prosecution and incarceration.

About two dozen people attended the People's State of the State Address, holding signs that called for taxes on the rich and giving speeches about mass incarceration and the increasing lines at food pantries.

They recommended regular random drug tests based on suspicion be increased and that a more robust recovery programme be embedded in current rehabilitation schemes once the prisoner is released from incarceration

Cuomo says even with a Republican Senate, he's achieved passage of marriage equality, an increase in the minimum wage, to Paid Family Leave, and raising the age of incarceration in state prisons from age 16 to 18.

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

«He's built upon Ken Thompson's progressive legacy — and will continue to increase public safety for Brooklynites, while reducing our reliance on incarceration.»

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.

«Research suggests that they also have an increased chance of developing a conduct disorder and have increased chances of substance use and incarceration later on.»

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.

Other factors that are also associated with increased prevalence rates include a history of incarceration or commercial sex work, geography, race / ethnicity, and being a male younger than 29 years.

Increased K 8 math skills, decreased teen birth rates, and lower incarceration rates may have lifted completion rates between 2000 and 2010

We study the long - term impact of increased school segregation on crime by matching students» enrollment records from CMS to their arrest and incarceration records from 1998 to 2010.

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.

Changes in judicial policies, particularly those related to drug offenses, have led to a large increase in the incarceration rate of minority males.

Attending a charter middle school in Harlem «sharply reduced the chances of teen pregnancy (for girls) and incarceration (for boys),» and «a Florida charter school increased students» earnings as adults.»

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

Further, she said, «attending the Promise Academy increased on - time high school graduation and college enrollment and decreased teen pregnancy for young women and incarceration for young men.»

We need Philadelphia City Council to support a «People's Budget» and use these hearings to advocate for increased funding for our public school system and decreased spending on incarceration.

Grade retention that results from narrow measures of academic preparedness can increase student risk for problems in school, including increased drop - out rates, and even when the student is promoted, the use of such assessments to sort students creates tracks within grade levels that reflect racial, ethnic, and social - class differences and that function to direct entire categories of students toward low - wage jobs or incarceration.

CDF's vision with its Cradle to Prison Pipeline campaign is to reduce detention and incarceration by increasing preventive supports and services children need, such as access to quality early childhood development and education services and accessible, comprehensive health and mental health coverage.

The law «drastically reduces hospitalization, homelessness, arrest, and incarceration among people with severe psychiatric disorders, while increasing adherence to treatment and overall quality of life,» the report states.

Very serious punishments can be imposed for DWI in Hudson Valley, including, but not limited to, incarceration, probation, fines, surcharges, suspension or revocation of one's New York driver's license, increase in insurance rates and the requirement for an interlock device in one's car.

These services will increase the efficiency of the Courts, reduce the burden on government agencies, reduce incarceration rates, and promote the general welfare of the local community.

The recent amendments to the Criminal Code mandating a number of mandatory minimum sentences are likely to increase Canada's rate of incarceration.