Sentences with phrase «poor people in jail»

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.

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Muslims in western nations tries to act «nice and tolerant» to make non-Muslims believe and think their violence and evil religion is peaceful so people fall into their cult and convert Blacks, people in jail, and poor women are main people being target!

The poor and the minorities also account for nearly all of the 50,000 people in county jails on an average day as pretrial detainees.

With a bad environment and poor parenting, orchid children can end up depressed, drug - addicted, or in jail — but with the right environment and good parenting, they can grow up to be society's most creative, successful, and happy people.

On principle, poor people should not be sitting in jail if they can't afford bail,» Schenectady County DA Robert Carney said.

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.

I also totally agree with you about the criminal system, I'm sick if hearing rich people buying themselves out of trouble and poor people spending way too much time in jail for the crime they committed xox

In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcIn the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcin the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcin getting housing, jobs, etc..

On the other, the legacy of apartheid remains: Khayelitsha, a partially informal township on the Cape Flats and one of the poorest areas in Cape Town, is still home to 2.4 million people of whom nearly 100 percent are black and young, and some half of whom live in shacks; every day, tourists visiting the Robben Island Museum take a bare - bones bus from Nelson Mandela's onetime jail cell to a rocky outcrop where the gulls» squalls convey a feeling of intense loneliness.

People do not feel threatened by exceptional acts of ethical behavior because they feel exempt from such impossibly high standards, i.e. Mother Teresa helping the poorest of the poor in India and Nelson Mandela doing jail time for leading South Africa out of apartheid.

«When you see folks saying, «Come take a criminal case; no experience required,» «Here, you'd better take this case, or I'm going to put you in jail,»... it seems to suggest that there are [people] in power who don't believe poor people's justice is worth much,» Bunton says.

News stories this fortnight have, for example, reported on poor people with diabetes being 10 times more likely to lose a limb than those who are better off, children with jailed family members experiencing poorer health in later life, and children who are intellectually stimulated being less likely to develop Alzheimer's.

Examining comorbidity is critical because it is so prevalent among juveniles in the general population, 69,70 adult jail detainees, 71 and adults who have high arrest rates, such as substance abusers, 72 young, long - term psychiatric patients, 73 and homeless, mentally ill persons.74 Moreover, studies71 of adults suggest that juveniles with comorbid disorders may be especially vulnerable to arrest, particularly if they are poor and can not afford treatment.