Sentences with phrase «of violent offenders»

Serotonin appears to help keep us civil; it's reduced in the brains of violent offenders, for example.

The speaker noted that under her tenure, the City Council has passed legislation significantly reducing the city's cooperation with immigration enforcement efforts except in the cases of violent offenders, and that it has fully financed programs that offer universal representation to detained immigrants and unaccompanied minors and young mothers with children placed in expedited removal proceedings.

... It is a fact that many of our corrections facilities have become more overcrowded with a higher proportion of violent offenders than ever before, and any policy changes must prioritize the security of everyone who works and resides in these institutions.»

Now, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services reports, «a large number of violent offenders are serving two, three or four times longer under truth - in - sentencing than criminals who committed similar offenses under the parole system.»

Not exact matches

Second, the researchers assumed that maltreatment of young boys increases the risk that they will grow up exhibiting antisocial symptoms and being violent offenders — that a social environment of victimization exerts a strong influence toward becoming a victimizer.

Barton has tried and oh so hard to re-invent himself, helped by handy books of quotations, as one of the game's thinkers rather than one or its worst violent offenders.

He confirmed that five of the 540 most serious offenders had been checked by employers when they were not on the database, but none of these had been convicted for serious or violent crimes.

The laws they create have crippled our immigration system, placing huge and often insurmountable barriers in the way of the authorities when they want to throw a foreign murderer, rapist or violent offender out of our country.

ALBANY — The state Senate plans to pass a bill Monday named after an NYPD officer killed in the line of duty that is intended to keep repeat violent offenders...

The New York state Senate has voted to create a public list of those convicted of violent felonies similar to the existing sex offender registry.

Ministers have maintained offenders convicted of violent or sexual crimes will not be eligible for early release but today's figures show 3,000 prisoners were released early while serving time for violent crimes.

However, the government is adamant that none of the 540 violent or sexual offenders whose records have not been updated have reoffended, although it does say that nine other criminals have «probably» slipped through the net.

In their study into the electronic tagging of adult offenders, the MPs also reveal that 562 assaults were committed by those on home detention curfews - despite the fact that sexual and violent offenders are prohibited from the scheme.

Assemblyman Mickey Kearns is seeking a state investigation into how sex offenders were placed in two West Seneca group homes after the release of records showing several violent and disturbing incidents at the homes.

Andrew Cuomo says now the prison population is shrinking, due to changing demographics, and reform of the Rockefeller Drug laws, which has led to fewer non violent drug offenders being incarcerated.

Felony cases include prosecuting violent felony offenders and career criminals for crimes including homicide, assault, and cases involving the use of firearms.

In addition, offenders serving sentences of between three months and four years, with certain exceptions for violent and sexual offenders, may also be eligible for release on a home detention curfew (HDC).

«The vast majority of juvenile offenders are treated as children already in New York and it doesn't need to change,» he said, adding that prison is typically treated as a last resort unless they commit violent crimes that should not be treated as juvenile.

«Until the new U.S. Attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. Attorney's offices will continue the great work of the Department in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring the most violent offenders.»

Mr Grieve said: «Conservatives would deploy more police on the streets to catch and deter violent offenders, ensure more prison places so that serious violent offenders who should be in jail are in jail and tackle the long term causes of crime which lead to so much tragic violence.»

A review of the multi-agency public protection arrangements (Mapp) finds that of the 17,680 violent and sexual offenders monitored in the community last year, 1,540 breached their licence conditions, up 18 per cent on the previous year.

According to The Sunday Telegraph, Chris Grayling promises to end the police's increasing use of cautions for violent offenders.

Police say many of these offenders have a violent criminal history.

Their views on such matters as conviction rates and plea bargains reveal that Mr. Laquidara, who also has the Working Families Party and Green Party lines, has the right sensibility: He recognizes the need for aggressive prosecution of repeat offenders and those accused of violent crimes, but he also sees the need to exercise discretion in certain other cases, balancing justice with the office's limited resources and the need to prevent case backlogs.

Senator Nordquist has worked with other members of the Legislature to increase punishments for violent offenders and create programs to stop violent crime before it happens.»

«Seventy percent of our inmate population are violent offenders,» said Rowe.

The report also calls for allowing the records of most youthful offenders to be sealed if they don't reoffend, although records of violent felonies committed by anyone 16 or older could be unsealed and used as a predicate in sentencing for any subsequent violent felony.

He also called for new restrictions on foreign criminals who can not be deported and a new violent offenders register to keep track of dangerous individuals.

«Until the new U.S. attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. attorney's offices will continue the great work of the department in investigating, prosecuting and deterring the most violent offenders,» she said in a statement.

The potentially life - saving Brittany's Law, which combats domestic violence by creating a registry of violent felony offenders, has inexplicably been held up by the Assembly Majority, and deserves a full vote on the floor of the Assembly.

A lifelong prosecutor with more than two decades of experience in the courtroom, Madeline has successfully prosecuted violent criminals, drug dealers, corrupt law enforcement officers and sex offenders, and started and led Nassau County's first - ever Special Victims Bureau.

«70 % of our inmate population are violent offenders,» said Rowe.

He understood that many were violent criminals, but even repeat offenders tended to do only short prison stints, or they were released from psychiatric hospitals because they were diagnostically sane, displaying «a perfect mask of genuine sanity, a flawless surface indicative in every respect of robust mental health.»

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

He hypothesized that the lower cholesterol levels in the violent offenders could be «a consequence of enhanced insulin secretion and that high insulin levels are responsible for violent behavior.»

While the kids in this movie likely won't ever find themselves in the Super Bowl, Gridiron Gang portrays the positive benefits of being on a team for a group of violent young offenders.

The movie's title refers to the act of transferring a young offender from a juvenile detention center to an adult penitentiary prematurely, and in the case of 19 - year - old Eric Love (Jack O'Connell), he's been relocated two years early due to the frequency and severity of his violent outbursts.

The film's comparison points are clear — a little bit of «Scum,» a little bit of «A Prophet «-- but it sets itself apart by making Jack O'Connell «s central character Eric (who is «starred up,» prison slang for being a high - risk violent offender) a hair - trigger, emotionally fucked psychopath, and by putting him in the same wing as his father Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), a long - time lifer who's the right - hand man to prison kingpin Spencer (Peter Ferdinando).

Last May, President Obama told an audience in El Paso that deportation of immigrants would focus on «violent offenders and people convicted of crimes; not families, not folks who are just looking to scrape together an income.»

Each annual violent or disruptive incident report shall be in a form prescribed by the commissioner and shall contain such information as the commissioner shall prescribe, including but not limited to information on the frequency and types of incidents, offenders, victims and student discipline or referral actions taken, as is available on the date the annual report is submitted.

This kind of deep intellectual understanding, fused with curiosity and a commitment to empathy, creates good care for anyone in need: from schoolchildren to victims of violence to violent offenders.

In some cases, 60 % of domestic violence offenders also abused animals at some point and 70 % of the most violent prisoners in a study of federal prisons, had serious animal abuse in their histories.

The bill, which received Royal assent in March, includes new mandatory minimum sentences for various offences, the elimination of conditional sentences for some crimes, and harsher penalties for violent young offenders.

We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.

Given that we have some of the most stringent violent offender legislation in the world it is difficult to see the necessity for such legislation given the existence of extended and potentially indeterminate licences for offenders guilty of specified offences.

Justice Stevens explains it best: «A rule that prohibits the federal government from requiring state officials to take action to help locate missing children, to apprehend violent offenders, and to forestall terrorist attacks and the spread of communicable diseases, can not be wise.»

Violent offenders get their own version of the anti-social behaviour order.

The human rights group says a structured sentencing framework would produce injustice, prevent optimum sentencing outcomes and could even result in an increase in rates of imprisonment: «These proposals go entirely against the prevailing trend of government criminal justice policy in recent years in relation to violent and sexual offences: that is, an emphasis on the individualised risk posed by the individual offender towards a member or members of the public.»

The proposed changes to the federal code to expand the safety valve to offenders who have up to three or four criminal history points, with exceptions for some of those points coming from more serious or violent offenses, is a modest, common sense change.

For example, as criminal lawyers in San Jose we have represented clients in Santa Clara County who have faced life in prison for three - strike cases; two - strike cases; serious or violent felonies, i.e., attempted murder, car - jacking, robbery, first degree burglary, gang - related stabbings; child pornography sex offenses requiring mandatory lifetime sex offender registration; child molestation, felony possession of methamphetamine for sale; felony possession of marijuana for sale, weapons offenses and many more.