Sentences with phrase «lower incarceration»

Studies that have tracked preschool participants for decades report significantly higher incomes, better health, and lower incarceration rates.

Justice Reinvestment SA (JRSA) is a diverse community of individuals and agencies with a shared vision of strong, safe and thriving SA communities, with less crime and lower incarceration rates, according to the group's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Spokesperson and CEO of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, Cheryl Axleby.

If we do not deal with the intergenerational trauma then we will not be able to deal successfully with preventing suicides, we will continue to fail to lower incarceration rates.»

[1] As designed, these courts aim to rehabilitate drug - addicted offenders, reduce recidivism, and potentially reduce costs to the system through lower incarceration rates.

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).

When students in public schools do well, the community benefits from a more prepared workforce, future economic growth, lower incarceration rates and more engaged citizens for our future communities.

In «Graduation Rates on the Rise,» authors Richard J. Murnane and Stephen L. Hoffman report that improved K 8 education, decreased teen birth rates, and lower incarceration rates all may have contributed to the rise in graduation rates after 2000.

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

pre-arrest diversion programs, which are designed to lower incarceration rates, along with other reform bills.

Brandes this Session is championing pre-arrest diversion programs, which are designed to lower incarceration rates, along with other reform bills.

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.

«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.

For example, Georgia and Minnesota have high rates of people on felony probation, though Minnesota is a low incarceration state.

Lowering the incarceration rate?

In the next 20 years, children at St. Marcus Lutheran Schools will generate an aggregate benefit of about $ 7 million due to the school's low incarceration rate and $ 64 million due to their high graduation rate.

If you do further research on the internet, you will find countries that have low incarceration rates.

Not exact matches

Less - educated males of recent cohorts are likely to face diminished employment and earnings opportunities and other attendant maladies, including poorer health, high probability of incarceration, and generally lower life satisfaction.»

Partnering relationships were marked by confusion and conflict due to incarceration, deteriorating commitments, and stresses of low - income family life.

They tend to have better academic results, fewer emotional and behavioral problems, and lower rates of incarceration as they mature.

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.

Sheriff Lansing said the revocation of the permit follows many years of safe operation of the jail and an inmate population that has remained relatively low due to the success of the County's several alternatives - to - incarceration programs.

«This is a very disappointing development,» said Mareane, «particularly in light of the extraordinary work that is done in this County to utilize any number of current and emerging alternatives to incarceration to keep our jail population low.»

Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joins Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler, local police chiefs and community leaders to call for passage of Maloney's legislation to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic and stop mass incarceration of abusers and low - level drug offenders, Orange County District Attorney's office, 40 Matthews St., Goshen.

In addition to helping individuals avoid spending unnecessary time in jail, the report also shows that providing low - income individuals with the ability to post bail helps them achieve better outcomes in their cases and avoid the negative consequences that stem from pre-trial incarceration, which can range from becoming homeless and unemployed to facing deportation.

Although he is credited with lowering the use of stop - and - frisk and bringing crime to an all - time low in the city, his continual defense of the broken windows approach has earned him the ire of advocates who believe the method disproportionately targets minority neighborhoods and has led to mass incarceration.

Manhattan DA Cy Vance said on Monday that additional funding would go toward the creation of an Alternative to Incarceration unit aimed at preventing low - level nonviolent offenders from facing jail time.

Low numeracy is not only a strong predictor of school success but also associated with worse health care, greater likelihood of criminal behavior and incarceration, and higher risk for depression and other illnesses.

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.

And being the oldest kid in your class, as it turns out, could not only raise test scores and improve your college odds but lower your chances of incarceration down the line.

BPI has pointed to another way toward lowering the level of recidivism through education and advocacy that has shown promise in breaking the cycle of incarceration among the inmates who've earned college degrees through the program.

The Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Christopher Blauvelt for Low Down (Director: Jeff Preiss, Screenwriters: Amy - Jo Albany, Topper Lilien)-- Based on Amy - Jo Albany's memoir, Low Down explores her heart - wrenching journey to adulthood while being raised by her father, bebop pianist Joe Albany, as he teeters between incarceration and addiction in the urban decay and waning bohemia of Hollywood in the 1970s.

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.

Higher levels of educational attainment are associated with a longer, healthier life; higher lifetime earnings; and lower probabilities of divorce, welfare receipt, and incarceration.

These savings are magnified after high school because graduates earn higher wages, are less likely to need social and economic assistance, and have lower rates of incarceration than non-graduates.

Incarceration removes a wage earner from the home, lowering household income.

Jailed Parents, Hurt Children Leila Morsy Mass incarceration is lowering student achievement

The consequences to their future — in terms of lower wages, joblessness, the risk of incarceration, the obstacles to an economically secure future — are tragic.

Some of the longest studies — those that have followed children from preschool graduation through adulthood — point to benefits that include a lower likelihood of incarceration, less need for public assistance, longer - lasting marriages and a lower risk of heart disease.

Unfortunately, adults can not get it right that every child deserves a free high quality education: society has contributed to expanding poverty, deferring dreams, under educating, over policing, over reliance of out - of - school suspensions, push - outs, extremely low graduation for student of color, and arrest and incarceration can be used interchangeable at schools.

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.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

The school - to - prison pipeline is a social and economic practice unfairly targeting low - income students and students of color out of schools and into incarceration.

This includes Angela House's Whole and Healthy Program (transitional housing and support for women immediately following incarceration), Project Row Houses Young Mothers Residency Program (a residency for low - income single mothers in the historically black neighborhood of Houston's Third Ward), and Project Row Houses Young Mothers Employment Placement Program (a job training program for low - income single mothers).

If the artistic exploration of space in Russian Constructivism and Suprematism was a low - tech way to expand the cosmic horizons of humanity, Socialist Realism was an artistic incarceration of the Soviet imagination.

When sentencing an Aboriginal offender, courts must consider: (1) The unique systemic or background factors which may have played a part in bringing the particular aboriginal offender before the courts.To do this courts are to take judicial notice of such matters as the history of colonialism, displacement, and residential schools and how that history continues to translate into lower educational attainment, lower incomes, higher unemployment, higher rates of substance abuse and suicide, and higher levels of incarceration for Aboriginal peoples.

A report to the House of Delegates said Sessions» decision will lead to increased use of mandatory minimums for low - level and nonviolent drug offenders and a rise in incarceration.

The district court further explained that a lower sentence would allow Pauley to be rehabilitated through the counseling he will receive during incarceration, and the court noted that a lifetime of supervised release would reduce the risk of Pauley becoming a repeat offender and would deter him from future criminal conduct.

These defaults should mandate sentences of alternatives to incarceration for lower - level crimes.

This contributes further to the low self - esteem and mental health problems, as well as ensuring pathways to non-participation and incarceration.

This multidimensional, broad - based framework helps promote father engagement across all levels of society and strategically tackle the diverse barriers that fathers face as they try to become better parents, partners, and providers by providing supports ranging from employment skills to low - income, noncustodial fathers, to reentry services for fathers recently released from incarceration.24 The OCF helps coordinate a variety of programs and events to promote father engagement.