Sentences with phrase «people in jail»

The evidence from around the world tells us that putting people in jail for minor crimes does not create safer communities.

It's the global equivalent of a town sheriff telling his officers not to put people in jail for taking drugs anymore.

The city, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, has steadily reduced the number of people in jail over the past six years.

As a kid, I was writing letters to people in jail who were family.

What is a crime, which crimes do we think is serious enough to place people in jail.

I like the idea of restorative justice and I think that the drug laws put too many people in jail with too harsh of sentences.

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

The abuses put innocent people in jail, set guilty people free.

But what if putting people in jail was kinda... pointless?

I've put a lot of people in jail that way.

While the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) doesn't throw people in jail for not paying their taxes, you could end up in the slammer for not filing your tax return.

Automatic throwing of people in jail by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) without Due Process; and 3.

I put people in jail as attorney general.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke claims prisons are not working and that he will reform criminal justice policy leading to 3,000 fewer people in jail by 2014.

In her spare time, Brand is involved in a variety of animal charitable causes; she and one of her chocolate Labrador Retrievers, Beau, participate in PAWS for People, a pet - assisted volunteer services program based in Newark, Del., where they visit and encourage young people in jail.

Throwing more people in jail isn't.

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.

Look into modern law and eyewitnesses who have put people in jail via mistaken eyewitness accounts.

That is, church people in jail, arrested for protesting outside Environmental Protection Agency offices and coal - fired power plants.

«It's going to keep people in jail that shouldn't be out on the streets.»

The home secretary today confirmed there are currently 79,819 people in jail in England and Wales, just 149 places short of full capacity.

There is an ongoing conversation in New York about how to fix the bail system that many agree is broken, keeping too many poor people in jail after they are arrested for low - level nonviolent offenses but can not afford to post bond and, at times, allowing individuals back onto the street who are prone to violence but able to pay bail.

«I would like to use another case person in the jail.

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.)

Daughter and widow of the two previous Post owners, respectively, and not anyone who thought she'd ever be in charge, Graham had to simultaneously navigate the shoals of Wall Street by taking her company public while considering publishing secret information that could both hurt the public offering and land key people in jail.

This insight is particularly shocking because most people in these jails have not been convicted.

One article stands out in particular, both because of the vibrancy with which it is written and the poignancy of its subject — the lack of access to appropriate health services for Indigenous people in jails.

They urged legislators to oppose HB 1288 and SB 632, which divert tax dollars to faith - based anti-abortion counseling centers, and to support two proactive bills: HB 1499, which will increase access to long - acting reversible contraception (LARC) for MO HealthNet patients, and SB 803 and HB 1627, which restricts the practice of shackling pregnant people in jails and prisons.

According to Trump's budget director, «the only way to get truly universal care is to throw people in jail if they don't have it.»

He adds, «America normally puts people in jail who create anti-consumer cartels.»

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has claimed prisons are not working and that he will reform criminal justice policy leading to 3,000 fewer people in jail by 2014.

Despite making up only 5 per cent of the population aged 10 to 17, more than half of the young people in jail are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths.

Yes, Bharara put plenty of people in jail for trading on what's known as «material nonpublic information,» and some made perfectly reasonable targets.

During his ten years as state senator and four as attorney general, Earley spent most of his time «working on how to put more people in jail and keeping them there longer,» he said in a speech at the Washington Convention Center.

and if you want it a different way you can do everyone a favor by going back to fiat where you have a nanny state throwing people in jail for «hard forking» the US dollar.

A time when we threw people in jail for miscegenation.

Not only that, I put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse.»

«The military commissions are willing to put people in jail for defending the rule of law,» Jay Connell, who represents another Guantanamo detainee facing a military commission, told The Daily Beast.

The government has begun to «step up our efforts,» he added, «and whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail.»

She continued: «Like the attorney general has said, «Whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail, and we will aggressively pursue leak cases wherever they may lead.»»

The government could have said, «Look, we put a lot of people in jail.

(«I specialize in fraud,» says Malamed, «helping get people's money back and putting people in jail.»)

One of the reasons we put people in jail is the hope that they will eventually be reformed and able to be re-integrated into society.

Do you need to throw people in jail that don't follow your misinformed code of ethic about marriage?

«Putting people in jail is not anything that you've heard about in the New Testament,» Sharp says.