Sentences with phrase «innocent people in jail»

The abuses put innocent people in jail, set guilty people free.

Not exact matches

In our justice system, we believe it is more important that innocent people do not go to jail, than making sure the guilty do.

It was so bad that even those who had been misused to jail innocent people some in Ghana, some in Ivory Coast were on standby to escape and this (happened) as we were approaching the 2008 elections.

Every person is innocent until proven guilty but the CPS would not be pursuing this high profile case if there wasn't a high likelihood that Mr Huhne will end up in jail.

In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcIn the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcin the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcin getting housing, jobs, etc..

Brevet calls it «a rather simple film» and notes that «the emotional impact of the story comes through in the end after what is a rather mundane and cliched story of the innocent man in jail and the person working hard on the outside to get him out.»

Durant wrote, «We now know that one in 100 U.S. citizens are in jail and one in nine African American men are in prison... We know that innocent people have been executed and that there are many potentially innocent prisoners sitting on death row today.

Persons who are presumed innocent will be spending additional days in jail churning through our clogged bail system at a cost that is certain to exceed any of the budget savings gained by shutting the program down on Sundays.