Sentences with phrase «prison population as»

I don't have to be an atheist to call you an idiot for criticizing Bill Gates and the prison population as greedy and disproportionately secular, respectively, when you seem to lack what's common knowledge about both topics.

Not exact matches

But since the 1990s, as the U.S. prison population exploded, new, bigger prisons were built — and states looked for a way to repurpose older ones.

The decision to isolate high - risk offenders system follows a government report which highlighted the dangers of leaving religious extremist prisoners as part of the general prison population.

It also said extremist inmates were «acting as self - styled»em irs» and exerting a controlling and radicalising influence on the wider Muslim prison population».

As of 2014, about 2.4 million people in the US, or 0.7 % of the population, were in prison.

In the early 1980s, just as the U.S. prison population was starting to rise, two young men were convicted of stabbing to death a park employee in the parking lot.

In order to reduce individual violence as well as drug use, we have created a prison population of two million.

And as far as criminals go, less than.5 % of the US prison population are «non-believers».

The report goes on to say that the prison populations decrease only as people are deliberately starved, forced into excessive labor, executed, tortured, raped, are forced into having an abortion or have their children killed.

We are almost always coined as immoral, sinful, etc.... when in fact atheist make up.2 % of prison population and we are some of the largest philanthropist in the world.

We increase the number of homeless shelters and food pantries, restore the welfare entitlement, build more prison cells, and write off a substantial part of the population as permanently incapable of citizenship.

As a beginning point in the search for answers to these questions, a profile of the prison and jail population is instructive.

In truth, the most recent study one can find shows that while about the same percentage identify as Christian (80 %) in prison as in the population at large, a much smaller percentage in prison identify as atheist (0.2 % of the prison population).

In truth, «the segment of the prison population which self - identifies as non-religious is approximately twice as large as found in the general population.»

Actually, the most recent study I can find shows that while about the same percentage identify as Christian (80 %) in prison as in the population at large, a much smaller percentage in prison identify as atheist (0.2 % of the prison population).

Why does such a high percentage of the prison population identify as religious?

As it seems that the Domino effect is really taking effect for countries falling one after another as all idols fell at times of winds of change (El - Zalzalah) the Earthquake... to those countries which have not invested in their populations but rather treated as if in a major Prison systeAs it seems that the Domino effect is really taking effect for countries falling one after another as all idols fell at times of winds of change (El - Zalzalah) the Earthquake... to those countries which have not invested in their populations but rather treated as if in a major Prison systeas all idols fell at times of winds of change (El - Zalzalah) the Earthquake... to those countries which have not invested in their populations but rather treated as if in a major Prison systeas if in a major Prison system.

Then there's about 20 % of the population that are $ e xu al maniacs who think they have to have $ ex with something... and they usually line up for the prison trans gen der that does it for books of stamps (prison currency) as they imagine that they're with a female.

TEXAS PRISONS are full of Baptists, Methodists, Fundies, Pentacostals, Catholics — roughly at the same percentage as their numbers in the general population.

Tom... you... are aware that the number of people who identify themselves as «atheist» VASTLY under represents the prison population compared to their numbers in society in general, yes?

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

Under racial profiling many black americans were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported toi AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the congo and in the SUDAN and it was this act as well as the rise of the hiphop nation is what has contributed the black holocaust in which the black human population were exterminated during the years between 1968 -1993-2001.

When you compare the percentage of inmates in prison who are Christian to the entire Christian population, and then compare the percentage of atheist / agnostic / non-deists with the entire atheist / agnostic / non-deist population, there are FAR more criminals who call themselves «Christian» rather than those who identify themselves as non-religious.

With the growing prison population in many western countries, fathering from prison is emerging as a further significant context in which to understand the contemporary experience of fathers in families.

Liberal groups such as NDN and Media Matters had mounted a «Dump Dobbs» campaign, and Latino organizations challenged such Dobbs declarations as his 2006 statement that about one - third of the U.S. prison population «is estimated to be illegal aliens» — which the anchor later acknowledged was way too high.

He warned that the prison population could not keep on growing indefinitely as it had under Labour and that it made no sense to continue locking up illiterate non-violent offenders.

Owerri prison was built in 1905 with an intake capacity of 540 inmates but as at the time of the incident the prison had a population of 2,260 prisoners.

If you are prepared to be unpopular you could accomplish an awful lot for the benefit of the people you represent, so I would hope to reduce the prison population and reduce the gap between rich and poor, as it seems that the smaller the gap the fewer of society's ills trouble everybody.

«The task has been made even more difficult by the government's choice to limit reforms designed to combat what it describes as «the unsustainable rise in the prison population».»

As we have talked about extensively on Capital Tonght, upstate prison populations have been utilized in the past by the Senate GOP to carve out districts that are more friendly for their conference.

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

The prison population has risen as a result of the government's policies on crime, Mr Brown insisted.

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

Nevertheless, in my view, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the conjunction of resource, population and policy pressures, particularly in the second half of 2013 - 14 and particularly in adult male prisons, was a very significant factor for the rapid deterioration in safety and other outcomes we found as the year progressed.»

According to the Ministry of Justice, the prison population had not grown as fast as previously projected, with a prison population in January 2011 of 82,991 and a useable operational capacity of 87,936.

It comes as the government looks at ways to reduce the prison population, and shadow home affairs minister Edward Garnier warned that this drive must not lead to more lenient sentences.

Cahill's acceptance speech covered the usual subjects, though his foray into the state's rising and falling prison population — in the context of raising the age of prosecuting offenders as adults from 16 to 18 — struck some as curious, considering things in Albany these days.

When the state's prison population was fairly small, the practice did not have much of an effect on legislative districts, but as the number of incarcerated people grew, so did the impact.

As lord chancellor, he was «astonished» at a prison population of 85,000, and set about reducing it.

The New York State Department of Community and Correctional Supervision has claimed that as crime rates decline and inmate populations decrease, taxpayers can not afford to continue paying for empty prison beds.

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.

Others argue that tools that seem to work in the broader population should be used in prisons as well.

One of the big challenges in addressing TBI in prison populations, and beyond, is that it is not as easy to diagnose as a broken bone or a blood - borne illness.

New research led by a University of Georgia sociologist on the growth in the scope and scale of felony convictions finds that, as of 2010, 3 percent of the total U.S. population and 15 percent of the African - American male population have served time in prison.

Synthetic cannabinoids, such as «Spice» and «Black Mamba», are becoming an increasing problem, especially with youths game to experiment and within the homeless and prison populations, due to their cheapness and odourless properties.

More and more yoga classes are being offered in settings that serve populations with a high incidence of trauma, such as prisons, community health clinics, and low - income schools.

My hope is that the Sivananda teacher training program can serve as an example that will inspire other institutions and be replicated elsewhere, generating a greater impact for the entire U.S. prison population.

Dave Asprey: It seems like... As least given what I know, it seems like it would be unethical to take even a prison population and put them on a sugar and white flour diet because we kind of know what happens.

Following a massacre at the prison, the group is splintered into several factions, none of whom can be sure about the fates of the others, and forced to find shelter among a population of survivors that can pose as much and often more of a threat than the walkers themselves.

Paul Walker (Eight Below, Running Scared) stars as ex-Marine Tim Kearney, a «three - time loser from Palmdale», who is sent to prison for a very long time, and while in there, gets into a heap of trouble with the criminal brotherhood (he kills their leader), which means certain death for sure if he were to go back into the prison population.