Sentences with phrase «people in prison»

To my knowledge, there are a number of people in prison for possessing / using marijuana.

Unfortunately, our country is also distinguished as being a world leader in putting people in prison.

It makes moral and financial sense to reduce the number of Indigenous people in prison.

There are far too many people in prison with poorly - understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities.

We receive more than 100 calls per week from children and young people in prison who need our help.

People in the prison system affirmed the changes in his life.

Below are the statistics of young people in prison 2013 — 2014.

In terms of approach, frankly, we are locking up some severely mentally ill people in prison who should not be there.

Everything we do is focused on achieving less crime, safer communities, fewer people in prison.

However, I have met evil people in prison that would agree that their «hidden role was to make others seek and find freedom inside their own self».

The overwhelming majority of people in prison believe in some form of god.

Thanks to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, we have far more elderly people in our prisons than ever before.

We still spend more per person in prison than we would trying to educate people.

I created a Training that enables anyone with a committed yoga practice to teach yoga and mindfulness to trauma - impacted people, especially people in prison.

I believed they never put innocent people in prison.

There are too many people in prison and many are left without support.

There are plenty of people in prison who share YOUR religious beliefs, whatever they may be.

Call me a liberal but I don't believe in putting mentally ill people in prison.

They believe the result could be less crime and fewer people in prisons.

There is no reason to question the good intentions and professionalism of the staff who work with young people in prisons.

Fifty to 83 percent of people in prison smoke — substantially higher than the general population outside prison.

Lentini, who has compiled a list of 55 cases in which he has been able to help people who have been falsely accused or wrongfully convicted of arson, estimates that there may still be as many as a «few hundred» innocent people in prison for arson - related offenses.

He deplored the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the prison system.

She quotes Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda as saying it is shameful that «we do better at keeping Aboriginal people in prisons than we do in schools.»

America already has almost as many people in prison as on active military duty.

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.

Evidence exists that it has illegally spied on Americans, tortured and abused men and women in its direct custody, sent others to be tortured by countries like Syria and Egypt, and kept people in prison indefinitely with no chance to challenge the bases of their detention.

According to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, there is also now greater disproportionality in the number of black people in prisons in the UK than in the US.

We aim to work alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBQTI people in prison in determining the best way to fulfil this role.

Bad people in prison also like to present themselves as being remorseful so that they can manipulate others into thinking they've changed their ways.

Gordon Brown countered: «That's why there are 20,000 more people in prison as a result of the tougher sentences we've been passing.»

At noon, Assemblyman David Weprin and the Rikers Debate Project hold a public debate on whether people in prison should be given the right to vote, Legislative Office Building, LCA Press Room 130, Albany.

Also at 11 a.m., members of Release Aging People in Prison, state Sen. Kevin Parker, Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry and others demand an end to racial bias in state prisons, Legislative Office Building, LCA Press Room 130, Albany.

Many — including Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, a Mount Vernon Democrat who co-chairs the caucus — stood to applaud Cuomo's plans to reform the prison system when he declared, in his State of the State presentation, «don't put other people in prison to give some people jobs.

The most common causes of deaths related to smoking among people in prison were lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and chronic lung disease.

M. Scott Peck: He hypothesizes that you will find more truly evil people in church than in prison because people in prison can admit their brokenness, while people in church are all trying to hide theirâ $ ™ s.

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

You note there are also a disproportionate number of dyslexic people in prison, though.

Rendering punishment meaningless leaves people in prison alone with their guilt.

Although there is an array of different people in our prisons, from all walks of life, there is no doubt that the disillusioned and desperate make up the majority of its population.

«So many people in prison fell through the educational slats.

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman found the drugs led to the deaths of at least 19 people in prison between April 2012 and September 2014.

The Prosecutor, Insp Okunade Johnson, urged the court to remand the accused persons in prison pending receipt of legal advice from the Office of Director of Public Prosecution.