Sentences with phrase «increasing prison population»

With an apparently ever - increasing prison population, would money desperately needed to maintain and improve HMCS be channelled instead into a new prison building programme?

It is also questionable how else the government would be able to succeed in funding the construction of the prisons necessary to house the ever - increasing prison population.

if 5 percent are peds... then reduce the priesthood by 5 % and increase the prison population by the same amout... broad brushed comments about priests?

The second view that has held reform back is the idea that the only reliable way of cutting crime is to toughen sentencing and substantially increase the prison population.

Conservative candidates across the country promised in our election manifesto that we would be tough on crime, increase the prison population to 96,000 by 2014 and that «anyone convicted of a knife crime can expect to face a prison sentence.»

Not exact matches

There's another aspect to it that we need to look at, which is there's always the danger when you reduce the county prison populations that you're doing so by increasing or shifting the population to state custody.

We increase the number of homeless shelters and food pantries, restore the welfare entitlement, build more prison cells, and write off a substantial part of the population as permanently incapable of citizenship.

Over the same period, the prison population increased by eight per cent, from 1,170 to 1,258.

From 1980 to 2013, the federal prison population increased by 800 percent, according to the DOJ.

This will result in an increase in the short - term prison population - the exact opposite of what the coalition desires, it added.

The British prison population has been increasing rapidly in recent years, and the prison estate has struggled to keep up with the rising demand.

With the number of prisoners with severe mental illness in prison increasing, efforts need to be made by all prison staff to ensure that this segment of the prison population has appropriate mental health care and safety.»

Synthetic cannabinoids, such as «Spice» and «Black Mamba», are becoming an increasing problem, especially with youths game to experiment and within the homeless and prison populations, due to their cheapness and odourless properties.

While such intense injustice reproduces the desire to abolish this injustice more strongly, the expression of the revolt against this injustice with sudden acts of resistance serves to increase the youth population in prisons.

In 2009, the Justice Policy Institute noted that some states have begun to decrease the size of the prison population — thereby reducing spending — by providing community - based substance - abuse treatment programs, increasing rehabilitation efforts, improving parole mechanisms and services, and decriminalizing nonviolent offenses.105 States that intentionally decreased their prison populations saw crime decrease even faster than national averages.106 Other states should consider such reforms.

Our prison population has increased by more than 50 % in less than a generation to nearly 86,000.

About a decade ago prison overcrowding was a major news headline in jurisdictions across the country as an under - funded system struggled to deal with a growing population and a steady increase in the number of incarcerated persons.

I would like to see our money spent on other issues, such as catching online predators that prey on the weak and children, building new Jails to support the ever demanding prison population increases, more money to our police forces accross the nation, education, healthcare, infostructure, issues like that, which are important, not on this copyright law which isnt an important issue and never really has been.

The commit tee is considering the possible use of trials of an American «Reinvesting Justice» project where data is analysed to determine what is driving increases in population and how to manage prison growth.

The most significant driver of the five-fold increase in the federal prison population over the past thirty years has been mandatory minimums, particularly those for drug offenses.

Crime rates have increased and prison populations are exploding across the country.

Since 1993 the prison population in Australia has increased by nearly 50 %.

(16) However, over the same time period the Indigenous female prison population increased from 111 women in 1993 (17) to 381 women in 2003.

In New South Wales, the Select Committee into the Increase in Prison Population found in 2001 that the most significant contributing factor was the increase in the remand popIncrease in Prison Population found in 2001 that the most significant contributing factor was the increase in the remand popincrease in the remand population.

There are many possible reasons for the increases in female Indigenous prison populations, with variations occurring in each State and Territory and again between regional and urban centres.

Increasing numbers of boot camps and juvenile prisons, as well as legislation that has constantly lowered the legal age of responsibility for criminal behavior, have become common ways of dealing with this population.

In the four 4 years to 2015, there were decreases in the youth prison population in all states and territories except Queensland and the Northern Territory, where the number of young people in prisons on an average night increased.

Since the release of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 there has been an increase in the overall national adult prison, but a decline in the juvenile prison population.

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 popIncrease 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 popincrease in the remand population.

The Indigenous female prison population increased by 262 % between 1991 and 1999 (compared to an increase in non-Indigenous women of 185 %).