Sentences with phrase «more incarceration»

Historically, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have suffered much more incarceration, inappropriate diagnoses and treatments, and more control than care in the hands of mental health professionals, facilities and institutions.
Mounting international evidence now shows that incarceration contributes to still more incarceration.
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There are two possible solutions for this problem: more incarceration or more treatment to break the grip that drugs have over so many people.
Of the men he chose for his study, he found that men with insecure attachments had more incarcerations, more violent behaviors, higher rate of substance abuse, and a greater school drop - out rate than those with secure attachments.

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The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
If convicted, black offenders are more likely to be sentenced to incarceration than white offenders and receive longer sentences for the same offenses.
That means more spending on policing and security, the justice system and incarceration.
In his 1994 study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.
But Christopher Wildeman, a Yale sociologist, has found that children are generally more likely to suffer academically and socially after the incarceration of a parent.
If just half of that was spent on rehabilitation instead of just churning out more hardened criminals I believe the incarceration numbers would plummet which would be great for the tax payers but terrible for the investors and owners of the private prisons.
As this suburban pastor and I talked more, it was clear that he assumed the families from my congregation who have been impacted by gun violence and incarceration are lazy or prone to crime.
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.
As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.
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.
How can captivity, a great biblical theme, have any meaning today if we treat incarceration as nothing more than «serving time»?
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.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), «Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.»
The more time I spend in them, listening to stories of inmates and seeing the terrible impact of incarceration, the more I believe prison is the most irrational of human institutions.
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.
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.
But they also didn't delay marriage because of «troublemaking men,» incarceration, abuse, unemployment or because they can't afford to get married — many of the reasons poor women cite as delaying marriage (an institution they value, perhaps more than their middle - class sisters).
Tough presents striking research from neuroendocrinology and other fields revealing that childhood psychological traumas — from physical and sexual abuse to physical and emotional neglect, divorce, parental incarceration, and addiction, things found more often (though by no means exclusively) in impoverished families — overwhelm developing bodies» and minds» ability to manage the stress of events, resulting in «all kinds of serious and long - lasting negative effects, physical, psychological, and neurological.»
We care about our students» potential much more than their pasts and specialize in equipping adults with histories of incarceration, addiction, homelessness, and trauma with the hands - on training and support they need to begin a culinary career.
Mass incarceration plays a role here: More than half of black men without a high school degree do some jail time before they turn 30.
And more to my case, how many marry women they met after incarceration?
When that happens, we as a society benefit with a stronger, more prepared workforce, increased school success, and reduced incarceration and remedial education costs.
For example, a fairly recent U.S. longitudinal study tracking over 6,400 boys for over 20 years found that children who grew up without their biological father in the home were roughly three times more likely to commit a crime that led to incarceration than were children from intact families.
However, it is also true that all attempts to charge and convict them of terrorist offences for more than 14 years, including subjecting them to legally questionable interrogation methods, failed to establish credible grounds for their incarceration.
Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.
«If we can get prisoners to start to change their behaviour while they are inside, we stand more of a chance of getting off the depressing merry - go - round of crime, incarceration and reoffending.
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
The Council's Bail Fund will provide bail of up to $ 2,000 and will save the City millions of dollars in incarceration costs and will help make the City's criminal justice system more just,» according to a Council press release.
Democrats have been trying to make these changes — which include giving judges more authority in sentencing by repealing the minimums, and developing treatment programs to replace incarceration for new offenders — for years now, but have been stopped in the past by Republicans controlling the State Senate.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued today that Mayor Bill de Blasio's resistance to closing the city's famous — and infamous — island incarceration complex is little more than political obstinacy and inertia, and took a shot at his rival Democrat «s education policies while he was at it.
Incarceration rates tend to be higher in Southern states which are often more rural as well.
In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.
After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.
There's the need to reform the state's bail rules to stop the routine incarceration of less affluent people before they've even been tried, and to require more timely sharing of evidence with defense attorneys in criminal cases.
A study conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles found that «[a] $ 1 million investment in incarceration will prevent about 350 crimes, while that same investment in education will prevent more than 600 crimes.
Organizer Sean Collins is with Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration: «And in the resolution it talks about, it calls on local law enforcement officials and agencies to utilize their discretion they have, use greater discretion to provide more leniency and more compassion in the system, and do what they can now, even though there isn't a law on the books to divert 16 - and 17 - year - olds away from prisons.»
Nominate more professionally, racially, and geographically diverse parole board candidates who more accurately represent the New York communities most impacted by crime and incarceration.
As these efforts are replicated in other communities, less money will be needed for law enforcement and incarceration, making more money available for education and healthy economic development.
«This study indicates a need for more research, and for programs that address TBI and mental health problems among people at risk of 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.
«It provides more evidence that incarceration may be infectious because it closely matches real data on a variety of levels.»
«White delinquent youth more likely to abuse hard drugs than blacks: Findings call for reform addressing disproportionate incarceration of African Americans.»
Most significantly, children with socioeconomic hardship, parent / guardian divorce, familial mental illness, neighborhood violence, and familial incarceration were more likely to have an ADHD diagnosis, and those with socioeconomic hardship and familial mental illness were more likely to have moderate to severe ADHD, according to parental reports.
Preminger and cinematographer Joseph LaShelle often tellingly linger on visual details that suggest incarceration, such as, most literally, the bars over the windows of a prison, or, more suggestively, the beams of street railings or the panes of apartment windows that reveal the busy city to be ever - present even within people's homes.
Landing its sharp social commentary somewhere between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Society, Get Out takes racism's more traditional forms — slavery, incarceration, exploitation, blackface — for a new, thoroughly modern appropriative spin.
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