Sentences with phrase «of incarceration»

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

And when communities are hostile to former prisoners, they contribute to the cycle of incarceration in our country.

Regardless of the offense with which someone is charged, federal criminal offenses are serious and could result in a substantial period of incarceration for those convicted.

The typical range is between 60 days to 1 year of incarceration time.

A crime of second degree carries a specific term of incarceration from between five and ten years and a fine of up to $ 1,000,000 or both.

But I think politicians from all sides of the political spectrum are starting to realise the diminishing returns from ever higher levels of incarceration.

The report examines the devastating impact of incarceration on Indigenous lives.

These are the students who have a high likelihood of incarceration.

For instance, deciding whether to issue cautions or what charges to lay means they are in positions to stop the cycle of incarceration from starting.

The impact of incarceration on the parent - child relationship and the long - term economic, emotional, and emotional implications of having a parent in prison are well documented.

Other factors that are also associated with increased prevalence rates include a history of incarceration or commercial sex work, geography, race / ethnicity, and being a male younger than 29 years.

Whether in big cities or small towns, defense counsel work to defend their clients and keep them out of incarceration while attorneys working for the prosecution do their best to prove guilt.

One of the hardest days of incarceration may be the day it ends.

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

This smart on crime reform will provide 16 - and 17 - year - olds with the appropriate treatment and rehabilitation, instead of incarceration, to prevent future offenses.

The trauma of incarceration impacts on children for the rest of their lives.

If there's a platform to the book, it's the impact of prison and the flaws in our system of incarceration.

We can not represent you if we believe you face a realistic possibility of incarceration (jail or «house arrest») if you are convicted.

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.

The high number of those abandoning their cases — without fear of incarceration or removal — was artificially reduced by a political numbers game.

If you find yourself a victim of crime, ask your attorney about a restorative justice program to help reduce many of the pitfalls of the incarceration to homelessness cycle.

The most common criticism of incarceration is that punishment only makes prisoners worse.

Even after controlling for income, youths in father - absent households still had significantly higher odds of incarceration than those in mother - father families.

Whether that's enough to distract jurors from the inconvenient fact of his incarceration remains to be seen.

We are reducing the madness of an incarceration society and ending a system of unnecessary human and financial waste.

This time, real - world figures and estimates of incarceration were used in the simulations.

A white young man, meanwhile, has a 1 in 17 likelihood of incarceration throughout his lifetime.

I say this because I suspect (but do not know) that the judiciary is less in favour of incarceration as a rule than governments of the current conservative bent.

We are firmly opposed to the culture of incarceration and believe in seeking rehabilitation for our clients.

When we think of sentencing law, we typically focus on the duration of incarceration, not the subsequent consequences.

The threat of incarceration alone makes criminal cases especially important when viewed from a defense standpoint.

Beyond the employment and social consequences, a person convicted of threatening death can be subject to fines, probation and liable to a term of incarceration up to five years.

Turning to the available recourse in these situations, the court noted that the role of incarceration was to compel the father's compliance with his support obligations, not to punish him.

Further, racial disparities of incarceration are even more distressing.

Failure to pay the fine will result in a default judgement imposing a period of incarceration.

«The connection between family violence and homelessness, the connection between financial hardship and family violence, it all goes hand in hand with rising rates of incarceration,» she says.

We need to end the «war on drugs,» dramatically reduce the levels of incarceration, and shift resources towards services for impoverished families.

And while it's still too early to assess the likelihood of incarceration, prison is not totally out of the question.

One of our nation's greatest challenges is stopping the cycle of incarceration.

Instead of incarceration, a judge may recommend restorative justice practices, which must be agreed to by the offender and be based in their community beliefs.

The volunteer represents defendants in child support contempt hearings if the defendant is facing the possibility of incarceration.

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.

Improve graduation rates, decrease the chance of incarceration, and significantly increase the earning potential of your students.