Sentences with phrase «of young criminals»

More than half of Utah's youth offenders return to detention Recidivism» More than half of young criminals return to detention — much higher rate than neighboring states.

People brought up the Rikers Island story: in 2012 Goldman Sachs launched a $ 9.6 million social impact bond to lend the City of New York funds to reduce the rate of young criminals returning to prison.

Not exact matches

Indeed, during the experiment, subjects ages 75 to 89 who also exhibited some signs of memory impairment were more likely than younger people to click on a suspicious email that would leave their personal data vulnerable to criminals.

Changing the views of many skeptical young Koreans could depend on whether Lee and others implicated in the scandal are in fact held accountable for any criminal wrongdoing in a trial that some have deemed to be a test for rule of law [6] in South Korea, or whether they will continue to enjoy the status of being untouchable.

The current and former employees say he inspired a small team of young engineers to develop more secure code, improve the company's defenses — including encrypting traffic between Yahoo's data centers — hunt down criminal activity and successfully collaborate with other companies in sharing threat data.

Collectively, this disparity fuels what has been called the «school - to - prison - pipeline,» a systemic bias that civil rights advocates say pushes children and young adults of color out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system.

They want to keep young people out of the criminal justice system and end the pernicious cycle of re-offending.

A wide - ranging child sex scandal, where priests have been accused of molesting young parishioners in the United States and in Europe, has since led to criminal charges in cases still pending before the courts.

ASBO is an acronym for Anti-Social Behaviour Order — created in the UK several years ago as an alternate means to criminal prosecution for keep young hooligans in check — sort of like a societal restraining order.

This rally showed quite dramatically what has been noted before: Whatever else one may say about it, the NSDAP has given young German men a new sense of identity and self - confidence, and in many cases it has channelled individuals with a criminal past into a disciplined, socially responsible way of life.

«I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hard - core criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance,» he said on his show.

Even if we don't go out and shoot kids for fun, when we allow the images in the media to perpetuate the idea that young black men are violent, when our own speech (I don't want to talk about the conversation I had to have at lunch today) perpetuates an idea of black Americans as criminals, especially young black American men, we are accessories to murder.

Nevertheless, I am an attorney with 25 years experience, 13 of which were as a criminal defense attorney, and the video makes clear that by legal standards, the young lady WAS the aggressor — twice — no matter what was said prior (words are never an excuse for an attack) and yes Mixon has a valid (at least arguable) self defense case.

Fine he chose Ospina over Cech b / c he wants to keep them both happy but choosing Coquelin over Xhaka was a criminal offense, then he plays two young kids (OX / IWOBI) when he just said this team is of MEN!!

He has brought exciting young talent through Liverpool's academy; something which stagnated over the last ten years, but his continued trust in the likes of Dejan Lovren and Ragnar Klaven at the heart of the Liverpool defence is nothing short of criminal.

«This is a wonderful opportunity for young people from the national Shakespeare Schools Festival to tread the boards alongside celebrity performers and top criminal barristers - all in support of the Foundation's work with 1,000 schools every year.

My review will be analysing the evidence of what works to prevent young people from committing criminal acts in the first place and how we can best reform the ones that do.

«DA Gonzalez has a real track record of implementing criminal justice reforms as reflected in his bail policy, his immigration policy, his summons warrant adjudication policy, his Young Adult Court Bureau and more.»

Two cousins charged in the deaths of four young men found buried on a suburban Philadelphia farm are expected to resolve their criminal case without a trial.

«Obviously we've heard from some of the sexual assault / rape crisis community not everybody necessarily wants to proceed with a criminal case and we certainly don't want young people having to live and repeat their story many, many times.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.

The sprawling rehabilitation network created over five decades by the Rev. Peter Young is collapsing, and his lawyer is working to stave off state investigators attempting to get a criminal indictment from a nearly three - year probe of Young's organization.

But as the father of young girls, what he did is highly, highly disturbing and criminal and I believe he should be punished for it.»

That Mario did nothing in the field of criminal justice but build prisons and lock up tens of thousands of young men of color had a devastating emotional effect on me personally.

For juvenile offenders, the Cuomo - appointed Commission on Youth, Public Safety and Justice is recommending raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York from 16 to 18, shifting nonviolent offenses for those under 18 to family court, and keeping young people out of adult jails, WCBS 880's Paul Murnane reported.

«If we are to deal most effectively with criminality in our country, we need to call criminal offences crime, move away from the unproductive and costly antisocial behaviour structure and all the rhetoric surrounding it, and remember that at the root of it all, it is crime prevention and early intervention, particularly in the lives of young people, that we will see reaping real rewards, when we come to look back at our time in office.

«[Assembly Speaker Sheldon] Silver covered up sexual abuse of young interns and staffers for years, using hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to pay off victims, and Andrew Cuomo protected him from criminal investigation after Silver got caught doing it,» Mr. Astorino said.

The pop star Sting added: «Giving young people criminal records for minor drug possession serves little purpose - it is time to think of more imaginative ways of addressing drug use in our society.»

«By raising the age of adult criminal responsibility to 18, New York can reduce crime, lower recidivism rates, save taxpayer dollars, and provide young offenders with access to services to help get them back on track,» the email states.

She was moved so to do by hearing how the failures of the criminal justice system compounded the grief and difficult experiences of the families of Sean Rigg and Olaseni Lewis — young, vulnerable men who died following restraint in Brixton in 2008 and Croydon in 2010 respectively.

«New York should not have the distinction where we are only one of two states still having our young people in these criminal facilities,» Blake said.

Reagan Stevens, a deputy director in de Blasio's Office of Criminal Justice, and two young men were arrested for illegal weapons possession while sitting in a double - parked car near the scene of a Saturday night shooting in Queens, cops said.

How a bit of under - the - table liberalism sucked even more young black and Asian kids into the criminal justice system

So if convicting these young people will not only blight what little future they have with a criminal record — especially at a time of growing unemployment - it will also increase the chances of their younger brothers and sisters going into crime.

«But, in this country, if you're a young person — say out at a club with friends — and you get arrested for possession of a small amount of drugs, it's likely you'll end up with a criminal record.

In this country, if you're a young person — say, out at a club with friends — and you get arrested for possession of a small amount of drugs, it's likely you'll end up with a criminal record.

«By raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 we can reduce the rate of recidivism in young adults to give more of them the chance they deserve to succeed in the future,» Carlucci said in a statement.

«That case absolutely sparked this and highlighted gaps in the law,» said state Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D - Forest Hills), referring to David Hartshorn, who was charged with criminal sexual act, use of a child in a sexual performance, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child after he allegedly took advantage of young athletes in his home for nearly two years, according to the Queens district attorney.

Albany County District Attorney David Soares announced a series of criminal justice reform programs Tuesday at the Albany County Judicial Center that will help young offenders at various phases of their life avoid criminal convictions and instead, rehabilitate and give back to the community.

Supporters of these changes have long maintained that the NYPD disproportionately arrests and charges nonwhites for such infractions, often leaving young black and Latino men with damaging criminal records.

Following the increase in cases of rape and violence against women and young girls, the Police High Command has established a forensic detection and investigation unit at the Force Criminal Investigations Department to ensure justice to those...

The vast majority of childhood sex abuse survivors only have until the relatively young age of 23 to bring criminal charges or seek civil relief.

Adedoyin, who is the Maye of Ife Kingdom, noted that young men who engage in criminal activities like kidnapping, armed robbery and terrorism as well as women who engage in prostitution are partly affected by their growing up experience.

Another probe into the murder of young mother Naomi Bryant by Anthony Rice, a convicted rapist, at her Winchester home last summer revealed a «cumulative failure» across the whole criminal justice system.

«I believe we owe it to both our young people at home and countries abroad — like Colombia — who have been blighted by this unwinnable war, to look at different approaches that could cut the levels of violence, addiction and criminal profit,» he said.

By raising the age, the Senate has given hundreds of young people the opportunity to improve themselves and pay their debt to society without exposing themselves to abuse and mistreatment from career criminals,» said Iesha Sekou, CEO of Street Corner Resources.

She describes her clients as predominantly young, African American men, whom are in and out of the criminal justice system.

«The Fortune Society applauds passage of Raise the Age and celebrates the positive impact that this policy change will have on the lives of young people who have gotten tangled in the criminal justice system.

It would increase the age of adult criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, ensuring that young offenders aren't automatically prosecuted and incarcerated as adults.

Treating young people as juveniles, including utilizing juvenile facilities instead of Rikers island when incarceration is needed, accords with best practices and offers these young people a better chance at rebuilding their lives and avoiding further contact with the criminal justice system.