Sentences with phrase «people are in prison»

Many people are in prison because they have committed crimes that require the law's justice.

«Most people are in prison because they didn't know how to make enough money legally,» says Jackson, who has more than a decade left in his sentence at Green Haven.

Felony disenfranchisement is to take away someone's right to vote during or after this person is in prison.

Not exact matches

«You're crammed in with 14 other people and it's like a prison - wife clique,» says Frye.

More than 60 % of the people in U.S prisons are people of color.

There are prison politics that are put in place to make sure people treat one other with respect and don't steal, and to weed out the people causing problems on the prison yards.

Defy Ventures is a program that aims to educate people in prison to become better humans upon graduation.

Though this new policy wouldn't affect people like Tyler who had already been sentenced, Holder's announcement gave Tyler renewed hope that his more than 20 - year - long stint in prison would actually end.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

In a natural disaster, few people are as powerless to help themselves as people locked away in prisoIn a natural disaster, few people are as powerless to help themselves as people locked away in prisoin prison.

He told us, «That's not who I am,» and I believed him — when he was in prison, he became the person he needed to be.

I wanted to give back to them what was given to me, not that I've been in prison, but just because you were in prison doesn't make you a bad person.

Teaching is one thing, but why did you start employing people who had been in prison?

About one to two percent of people in the general population are psychopaths (that percentage is higher in prisons, boardrooms, and undergrad economics classes).

About 90 percent of the people he's employed in his own business over the years have been through the prison system.

The report found the US to be holding 2.3 million people in more than 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, and 3,163 local jails, among other detention centers.

The report estimates that out of the 630,000 people held in jail, only 187,000 have been convicted of a crime, which is most often a misdemeanor that does not warrant time in prison.

As of 2014, about 2.4 million people in the US, or 0.7 % of the population, were in prison.

There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.»

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

Default rates are rising, many people simply can't pay their debt, unless they lose their home, unless they lose their job, or in some cases now, unless they lose their freedom and are put into debtor's prisons down South.

Defy's founder, Catherine Hoke, a venture capitalist by trade, was visiting a prison in Texas when she recognized the similarities between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and incarcerated people — relentless drive, resourcefulness, and extraordinary hustle.

A person caught in the act can face up to 14 years in prison, though activists say that it is rare for people to be prosecuted.

The accused was smart enough to break down the prison's window and traveled 60 miles to Keflavik International Airport where he showed a stolen passport issued in another person's name and fled to Sweden.

«One woman, who had been in and out of prison for about 29 years, found support through the app and told me that for the first time it seemed as if there were people who cared,» said Wasilewski.

First, public sector Chefs and Cooks are mostly people who work in large institutions like prisons and hospitals.

then why aren't the majority of people who are in prison atheists?

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

The majority of people in prison are Christians, and lets not forget all those catholic priests who molest children.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

So, basically, Israel is using Gaza as an excuse to slice and dice the West Bank into separated small areas of Palestinians who are all effectively in prison camps even though most people living in the West Bank just want to live in peace and not be attacked regularly by Israeli settlers.

Jesus told us to take care of the widows and the orphans, to take care of the sick, to visit those in prison, to treat every person we come in contact with in the same was we ourselves would want to be treated by them.

A Salvation Army church in Belfast is urging people to pray after a bomb exploded underneath a prison... More

Communism is a Communism it also takes away the freedom, calling it liberation is just wrong due to the fact that a lot of people has died or was captivated in prison thanks to this «liberation».

Someone else asked: «Why is the Eucharist given to hardened criminals in prisons but, denied to remarried couple trying to be caring people?»

The young people's charity was speaking after the Prison Reform Trust charity launched an independent review into the relationship between children in care and youth offending rates.

People like you should be in prison for accessory to child molestation.

People're seduced in the «right or wrong» and «black or white» theory confined in our prison of logic..

These people would have thrown you in prison as a heretic for saying the Earth is not the center of the universe and yet people of faith worship these ideals.

Christians are uniting at the end the annual Prisons Week to tackle the disproportionately high number of black people in prison.

I mean, this is presumptuous and potentially arrogant of me, but the Christianity that resonates the most with me is the Christianity that seems to reflect that concept of grace and forgiveness and humility, and the Christians who are humbly taking care of the sick, and the Christians who are humbly visiting people in prisons.

Dear friendly peoples of world, hope the all mankind could kindly arise with joint effort to save this peace loving people from the wicked and severe tortures and baseless accusations.How mankind in this century of light can treat another human being simply heap false accusations and put in prison for so many years when they have done no wrongs.l.

«We have a large prison ministry, which I am very fond of and we have placed almost three million books in prison cells now... It is amazing how many people come to Christ through that,» she says.

From prison he sends to Jesus to ask him if he really is the promised one sent by God or if he and the people should wait in expectation of another.

The only crime attributed to the goats was their failure to help people in poverty and in prison.

For wherever conscience is present, and it is and shall be present in each person, there exists in eternity a lonely prison, or the blessed chamber of salvation.

Ok but can god take away a person from hell and put him in heaven and if god loves us so much then why he doesn't destroy satun or put him in prison forever and why doesn't he tells the holy spirit to forgive whatever any person says just like him and Jesus i want to know thst but i noticed in all your replies except one that you were telling me everything i was asking except this in short if i say «he allows us to hate him» and i also want to know that if a person is sent in hell for his sins then will he go back to heaven after completing his punishment or stay there forever and also will any person who have commited the unforgivable sin one day be freed and allowed to go to heven or be reborn on Earth and if god has infinite love for us why don't he force us to belive in Jesus just before dying and then as he goes to heven show Jesus to him and then give him a rebirth as soon as his turn comes and then countinue this becaude going to heaven would be better much more than going to hell especialy for those who have commited the unforgivable sin

As of late 2016, the U.N. believed that between 80,000 and 120,000 people are being held in a system of four large political prisons.

He should be in prison for what he does to people.

Discernment is not judgmentalism, it is wisdom; but discernment includes the recognition of our own sinful tendencies, including the instinctive self - righteous response, and reminds us, as Sister Helen Prejean discovered in her ministry to those awaiting capital punishment in prison that «people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.»