Sentences with phrase «people from jail»

Governors could issue pardons which will release people from jail.

Other changes include potentially cutting leases in Bridgeport and Stamford locations, reducing legal services and «system redesign initiatives and service modifications» aimed at diverting people from jail and avoiding prison overcrowding.

It has diverted at least 3,800 people from jail since its launch in 2016 and is set to expand as part of the push to cut the population and eventually close Rikers Island.

The program has already diverted 3,700 people from jail, 92 % of whom showed up to court; the expansion could reduce the number of inmate beds necessary by 500 over five years, according to the plan.

Not exact matches

People arrested for being members of the MS - 13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang, among other crimes, flash their gang's hand sign from inside a jail cell at a police station in San Salvador, El Salvador, October 12, 2012.

In Turkey, more than 32,000 people were put in jail and 100,000 have been dismissed from jobs in the security and civil services for their alleged links to a religious network the government says staged the July 15 military coup.

The controversial bill not only allows officers to question a people about their residency status but also allows police chiefs, sheriffs, constables, and jail administrators to be charged with a Class A misdemeanor if they refuse to comply with a federal detention request from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Zachary Cruz, the brother of the teenager who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month, was freed from jail Thursday afternoon as part of a plea deal reached in his trespassing case.

The deterrence that she is talking about is the claim that throwing people in jail makes others want to avoid jail, and thereby punishing one prevents others from doing something that will get them thrown in jail.

A team of evangelicals traveled from the U.S. to Africa with intent to incite the killing and jailing of some people there.

Does he not abuse it by selling it to intoxicated persons who often end up in jail or a morgue from over-exposure?

Jesus Christ, this poor guy is going to jail for you people, for your sins, to preserve, to save our Christian values, to clean the world of these Islamoids, to reject all other rot morals from the liberal pest (see the new NY f..

People in schools and churches across the country will pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr. today, and many will read «Letter From The Birmingham Jail,» which is right and good.

From prison statistics we see more religious people in jail per person then atheists.

What we do is we start sending people like you to jail for hate crimes against these people, that will stop the bigotry from spreading on the streets.

The Anglo - American idea... means that the party who does not abide by certain specific decrees emanating from a judicial body is a contumacious person and may, as a rule, be held in contempt of court, fined and jailed... Now, this very concept of contempt simply does not belong to the world of ideas of a Latin lawyer.

WHY spend money on this evil person, save a buck and sentence him from the jail house, don't even go to trial.

In the op - ed for USA Today, Moore pushed for fixing mandatory minimum sentences, focusing on treatment instead of incarceration for drug offenders and those suffering from mental illnesses, and better awareness of why people are jailed.

Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.

The proposals include the elimination of pretrial detention for low - level offenses; setting a speedy trial requirement to keep people from being held in jail for months awaiting trial; and changing discovery rules to allow defendants access to all evidence before making a plea.

You have been screwing that people of this state for many decades, and in my opinion should not only removed from the senate, and may to repay the money they can prove you screwed that state taxpayers out of, but you should be thrown in jail for fraud and / or theft like the criminal that you are.

Fifty - three people given life sentences since 2000 have been freed from jail, the Home Office has admitted.

A woman from Dryden is one of three people jailed on murder charges.

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.

«For most people, it's an abstraction, literally isolated from the rest of the city,» de Blasio said about the jail.

The Malliotakis bill, sponsored by Sen. Marty Golden (R - Brooklyn) in the Senate, would prohibit judges from sentencing people with more than two felonies to drug diversion treatment programs instead of jail time.

The CJC's Needs Assessment Report, which was validated by industry expert RicciGreeneAssociates in 2013, called for a two pronged approach — first, enhance the County's innovative work with Alternatives to Incarceration programs to divert people away from the jail and drive down recidivism; and second, move forward with larger jail facility, designed as transition center campus where the County can improve its ability to institute additional evidence - based rehabilitative and re-entry programs.

Sagay added that contrary to Saraki's statement that the anti-corruption war was all about jailing people, «What we are determined to do at any cost is to recover every stolen kobo, all the loot taken from Nigeria, 100 per cent».

In the urgent appeal dated 3 December 2015, and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organisation said, «We are seriously concerned that the National Assembly of Nigeria will any moment from now pass a bill to jail for two years and fine anybody or group of persons who send any alleged false text message or post false message on the social media against another person.»

Hahn said Thursday she has asked George Nolan, the legislative attorney, to look at ways to prevent people with a criminal background from being hired at the jail.

Two accused persons who escaped from the Kwabenya Police station last month during an attack on the station have been jailed.

No, it may not stop someone from murdering their child, just like being arrested and jail time doesn't stop people from commiting crimes, but maybe, just maybe in this case, the jury would have had a light bulb moment and said, «Hey, there is something that we can convict her on.

``... I think that any time you have a situation where something happens again and again and again, and it happens on the part of people who should know better, and it happens on the part of people who should be able to engage in a decent and reasonable calculus about whether or not it's worth going to jail and being separated from your liberty for a few thousand dollars, that something is broken in the system,» he continued a bit later.

The Public Trust Act would impose tougher jail sentences on people who misuse public money and bar convicted officials from holding office again, 1010 WINS» Carol D'Auria reported.

■ The farsighted budget would finally raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and remove people under 18 from adult jails and prisons.

«We have to stop putting people of color in jail for something that white people do with impunity,» said Nixon, the activist and actress who is challenging Cuomo from the left.

EAST HARLEM — City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weeks.

Obviously referring to Buhari, Adesanmi said, «You had only one job to do and you failed: long jail term for the corrupt [persons] from the PDP and within your own party [APC].»

New research from North Carolina State University finds that mental health courts are effective at reducing repeat offending, and limiting related jail time, for people with mental health problems — especially those who also have substance use problems.

State and local programs that expedite Medicaid enrollment for people being released from jails and prisons have become more common in recent years as part of efforts to reduce soaring criminal justice costs.

Sen, the vice president of India's People's Union for Civil Liberties, was arrested in 2007 and accused of aiding Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh, known as Naxalites, by smuggling notes from one of them being held in jail.

He was frustrated in that job by the difficulty of keeping people from repeating mistakes and returning to jail.

I'm here because I'm law abiding and sick of dating ppl I end up have to get restraining orders on or call me from jail.

People in or just released from jail are hot.

For me, it's more about whether I feel a rapport... If I can find that, it really doesn't matter to me where they work... (Though I do think I'd stay away from people in jail.)

The basic conceit of Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson is such: Bronson (Tom Hardy) wants to be famous, he isn't good at much aside from beating the shit out of people and so, after knocking over a store, he's thrown in jail and seeks his fame by becoming Britain's most violent prisoner.

This year's list includes two families, the Sung family from Steve James» Abacus: Small Enough to Jail and the Rainey family from Jonathan Olshefski's Quest; five people whose films bear their name, Dina Buno, Jim Carrey, Jane Goodall, Dolores Huerta and Bobbi Jene Smith; and three filmmakers who appear in their own films, wrestling with disease, murder and mortality, Jennifer Brea (Unrest), Yance Ford (Strong Island) and Agnès Varda (Faces Places).

Newly sprung from jail and looking for trouble, Sin - Dee is the sort of person others might describe as a «force of nature,» which is often a euphemism for «impossible»: she's a relentless motor - mouth and her preferred form of conversation is to berate the other party into agreement or silence — not that Alex is intimidated.

According to Act 4 Juvenile Justice, for more than 35 years the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) has provided critical federal funding to states to comply with a set of core requirements designed to protect children from the dangers of adult jails and lockups; keep young people safe; keep children charged with status offenses out of locked custody; and address the disparate treatment of youth of color in the justice system.

This year, in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King's «Letter from a Birmingham Jail,» we will explore actions that create stress — actions that foster such a tension that the people who scorn us will have to listen and will have to negotiate.»