Sentences with phrase «like incarceration»

Desmond's empathetic and scrupulously researched book reintroduces the concept of «exploitation» into the poverty debate, showing how eviction, like incarceration, can brand a person for life.

Traditional classroom settings & structure can feel more like incarceration than education.

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.

Not exact matches

It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»

Like other women in communities with high rates of incarceration, she faced a shortage of potential mates.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

I would like to hear Mikee's explanation as to why the more secular G20 countries have lower crime and murder rates than the US, why atheists have lower incarceration rates than religitards, and why the red states have higher crime, divorce and teen pregnancy rates than the blues states.

Rethinking how sentencing guidelines are created, what treatment programs could look like for those suffering from addiction and the effectiveness of mass incarceration is part of trading in the «war» strategy for something more nuanced and effective.

Rethinking how sentencing guidelines are created, what treatment programs could look like for those suffering from addiction and the effectiveness of mass incarceration is part of ending the «war» strategy for something more nuanced and fair.

Like a life sentence given to a convicted serial killer, hell is designed to be a permanent incarceration given to those who refuse to repent of their sins.

«We would like to thank the prosecutors who have been willing to engage in dialogue and recognise that this conduct did not merit the extradition, incarceration and criminalisation of my son.»

«I look forward to our continued partnership to improve our industrial waterfront economy, to create a Harbor Middle School, to continue working alongside organizations like UPROSE to create opportunities for our youth and supporting the Red Hook Community Justice Center to break the cycle of mass incarceration,» she said.

Nixon made her official announcement to run on Monday, in a video proclaiming her love of New York and desire to work on issues like health care, the subway system and mass incarceration.

I'm proud of my role as Miranda, and if the popularity of the series will help me to raise awareness of the critical problems I'm running to fix in New York — like inequality, underfunded public schools, mass incarceration, and racial injustice — then I'm comfortable with that.

We will not allow New York to treat our teenagers like criminals in criminal court or continue the tradition of mass incarceration of our youth and the 8 members of the IDC will not vote for a budget in the absence of Raise the Age.»

«Out - of - control police who respond to minor violations with overwhelming force, toleration of racist cops, siege - like conditions in some cities and city neighborhoods, and record - high incarceration — all of these are evidence of a growing police state.»

We will not allow New York to treat our teenagers like criminals in criminal court or continue the tradition of mass incarceration of our youth and the eight members of the IDC will not vote for a budget in the absence of Raise the Age.»

When Bill Clinton rolled out his infamous 1994 crime bill — his naked and cynical shift to the right, made for unapologetic political expediency, that led directly to a spike in drug arrests and incarcerations — he did it with support from black faith leaders, who said that while they didn't like everything in the crime bill, they did like its stated goal of protecting children.

In the advisory, Adams identified several groups of people at elevated risk of overdoses, including people who misuse prescription opioids, those who use drugs like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, and those who have recently left treatment programs or incarceration.

He finds its use to study incarceration innovative, saying that more simulations like this one might provide useful data about the consequences of decisions that affect society.

Aptly named 13th, for the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, this documentary follows the aftermath of the American Civil War for African Americans, and how slavery has only been perpetuated by different practices throughout the years like disenfranchisement and mass incarceration.

Through its depiction, it feels like parenthood has a lot in common with incarceration.

Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence.

I think our system of incarceration needs great improvement - for example getting people job training and skills to survive when released and I did nt like the idea of melachroming because it could lead to people getting killed.

Symbolism enters the work in a paint - caked sculptural tableau about the plague of black incarceration, but politics is really there throughout the exhibition, which feels like a completely realized act of civic and familial devotion.

This form of incarceration performs like a commercial enterprise, and it is only a tiny part of America's disturbing and unsustainable prison culture.

School for radical thought by day, nightclub into the wee hours, this multifarious undertaking will offer classes with the likes of the Rikers Island Debate Project, one - on - one counseling for those affected by incarceration, and a dance club, with Creative Time turning over the keys to nightlife stalwarts like House of Vogue.

Silken and smooth, these stripes set up a visual rhythm, like a luxurious woven damask; they are at the same time sensory deprivation and saturation, with a menacing undertow of incarceration.

Both works activate a metaphor of ideological incarceration, and though these pieces — like many others in the show — center on racial intolerance as a theme, they point to a broader existential opportunity, one of self - liberation.

things like claiming to have received the nobel prize, to be a member of the house of lords, to have won the falklands war, that the solution for AIDS was incarceration...

Given Singapore's penchant for metting out serious punishments for various minor offenses that would not be criminalized elsewhere or would receive much less harsh punishments elsewhere, I would assume that any failure to observe «Tips for Riding» including 3.2 would be subject to serious fines and / or incarceration or corporal punishment until proven otherwise, possibly under an obscure legal rationale such as «failure to follow directions of bus driver» or something like that.

Although its analysis, like that in Gideon and other earlier cases, suggested that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel should apply to all state criminal prosecutions, Argersinger held only that an indigent defendant is entitled to appointed counsel, even in petty offenses punishable by six months of incarceration or less, if he is likely to be sentenced to incarceration for any time if convicted.

Another situation that comes up is when an affluent person who is not entitled to a public defender as a result, chooses to represent themselves, usually with respect to a fairly minor charge like a traffic violation that carries a risk for a short term of incarceration, to save money.

Even though these men avoided the harsh punishment of incarceration they still endured the struggles of being on supervision and they can still be barred from access to things like homes and jobs because of their records.

This would seem to support the author's point that vastly increased rates of incarceration in the US haven't made it any more or less safe than countries with lower incarceration rates (like Canada).

The prison crisis in states like California, and the ongoing over-investment of social resources toward mass incarceration in America that they show case, is one of the reasons it is so important to as what lies beyond the traditional careers in criminal law defense and prosecution.

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.

Submitting a portfolio of four resume samples appropriate for the topic such as people returning to work and covering gaps after illness, injury, incarceration, or being stay - at - home parents; people making big career changes; people overcoming major obstacles like being fired.

According to the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign (ADJC), a community organisation campaigning on this issue, cases like that of Marlon Noble are indicative of much deeper, system - wide failings that lead to the incarceration of Indigenous people with cognitive disabilities.

Some building blocks, like early child development or education and training, are positive as future investment; others, such as expenditure on law courts, legal services and incarceration, are negative.

Healing should not only address the forcible removal but trauma arising from other sources and the related issues like family violence, alcohol and other drug use and incarceration that flow from trauma.

«What this report highlights is that while there are areas such as infant mortality where we are slowly closing the gap, there are areas where there is a lot of work to do — like mental health and incarceration rates.

Chronic otitis media has lifelong impacts for health and well - being just like cardiovascular disease or diabetes — its effects are often «life sentences» of disability and are linked to high rates of Indigenous incarceration.

New programs are continually in the works, like our latest effort to help kids build the resiliency skills needed to deal with day - to - day challenges as well as more serious ones such as bullying, divorce or the incarceration of a parent.

Skepticism to the point of being extreme can itself be almost religion - like and is inappropriate when what is at stake is only a sole versus joint child custody arrangement, not incarceration or a termination of parental rights.

As long as laws like these continue, incarceration rates will remain unacceptably high, and too many Indigenous people will be at risk of dying in custody.