Sentences with phrase «prison population»

The design features a central viewing chamber with a system of mirrors that allows a single guard to keep watch on the entire prison population in their cells.

It has also been reported that indigenous women constitute the fastest growing prison population.

It is also questionable how else the government would be able to succeed in funding the construction of the prisons necessary to house the ever - increasing prison population.

Seniors are expected to account for a third of the entire prison population by 2030, according to the study.

If convicted, these youths could be sent to the general prison population.

We make up around a quarter of the adult prison population [69] and over half of the juvenile detention population.

It is based on a 2 million prison population for all crimes.

He has cited a declining prison population due to a downturn in violent crime.

In addition to these primary stakeholders, there are analytical uses of school information including economic and employment forecasts, estimating transit needs, and, sadly, predicting prison populations.

While women only comprise about 20 % of the Canadian prison population, they are more likely than men to self - harm, and therefore more likely to end up in administrative segregation.

This will result in an increase in the short - term prison population - the exact opposite of what the coalition desires, it added.

These lower, medium and higher scenarios track the impact of three different sentencing trends on custodial convictions and hence on the resulting prison population.

And that is convenient you'll accept the label when it points to something in your favor, like prison population.

His reforms could still fuel a 2,000 cut in the record prison population.

The British prison population has been increasing rapidly in recent years, and the prison estate has struggled to keep up with the rising demand.

The party should, he argued, «be striving for a lower prison population».

It's a shoot - from - the - hip response to practices designed to make prison populations more manageable.

Indigenous women make up 5 % of BC's female population but 35 % of its female provincial prison population.

Literacy rates aren't much improved among the adult prison population.

The administration's position on drugs and immigration could reverse declining prison populations.

Godless American's are good without god, as is clearly demonstrated by the fact, that atheists or nonreligious Americans are about 12 % of the population and make up less than one quarter of one percent of prison populations.

Given King's business background, he estimated the economic payoff of reducing prison population would be huge.

Sessions's memo and Trump's rhetoric about rampant crime in America's inner cities indicate the nation may be headed for an uptick in the federal prison population in the coming years.

The findings underscore the way legal policies — such as the growth of the U.S. prison population from the 1980s — can have a ripple effect in communities, says Nancy La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Washington, D.C. — based Urban Institute.

Currently, private prisons oversee about 8 percent of the country's total prison population.

The graph stationed in the Nursery, Index II, juxtaposed data on prison populations, income distribution, the art market, and museum and prison construction.

Go check out the facts on US prison populations — you will find that atheists are way under represented.

«Hospice coordinators felt that EOL care had a positive impact on the general prison population as well as on dying prisoners because it promoted compassion and presented an alternative to the view of the prison system as entirely punitive — showing it to be more humane and caring, supportive of the dignity of the dying patient, and encouraging trust between prison staff and inmates,» wrote Wion and Loeb.

We have the largest prison population in the world,» says Senator Jim Webb (D - Va.)

There was a short period of declining prison populations from 1981, when fines, community sentences and cautions were increasingly used as alternative punishments.

Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday announced a compromise between district attorneys and Republican lawmakers on six bills they say will reduce Oklahoma's prison population while maintaining public safety.

«With our maximum - security prisons at 122 percent capacity and our overall prison population at 100 %, protecting the safety of inmates, corrections officers and the public at large means that tax dollars must be spent efficiently, and any reforms must address the extremely dangerous overcrowding and «double bunking» conditions at our medium - and maximum - security prisons.»

With an increasingly aging prison population, end - of - life care for inmates is becoming a more prominent issue, according to Penn State nursing researchers.

At last count in 2013, Indigenous deaths in custody had spiked to all - time highs in other states and territories where the service has not been implemented, as well as among Indigenous prison populations.

Apart from Cafardi's book or my review of it, MacRae's letter suggests an important context from which to consider the 2002 sexual crisis on the basis of the statistics he provides about the New Hampshire state prison population.

The staggering prison population within the United States is hard to visualize.

Measures to help bring down thesoaring prison population which last week reached 82,068 (96 over the level which the Prison Service considers safe) have been announced by the government.

Inflexibility in such laws has backfired in a huge way, as has been clear for so long in tens of thousands of convictions for nonviolent crimes swelling American prison populations.

The U.S. prison population continued to rise even after the crime rate began declining in the mid-1990s because judges were faced with more repeat offenders, a new study suggests.

The Red Cross Vulnerability Report: Rethinking Justice warned that, with Australia's prison population reaching a 10 - year high and Indigenous people comprising more than a third of those incarcerated, a rethink was needed.

Data about prison populations and re-incarceration rates are poorly reported, and information about post-prison release outcomes is almost entirely missing — despite data on all these issues being routinely collected through criminal justice system administration processes.

If one in five people with disability are diverted from detention and into a supported disability program, then the overall Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prison population could be reduced by 10 per cent.»

In the four 4 years to 2015, there were decreases in the youth prison population in all states and territories except Queensland and the Northern Territory, where the number of young people in prisons on an average night increased.

The Texas prison population, one of the largest of any state, counting inmates in both state and federal custody (not including Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees), is around 160,000 inmates.

So prison populations soared, and mandatory sentences forced often reluctant judges to imprison first - time offenders, many of them lower - level «mules» who were merely carrying the drugs for the dealers, who were seldom touched.