Sentences with phrase «prison populations decrease»

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.

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The federal - prison population has decreased significantly over the last three years from 220,000 in 2013 to 197,000 in December 2015.

New York's prison population is decreasing, but the number of inmates age 50 and over rose 46 percent from 2007 to 2016, and the state must adjust its policies to meet the unique needs of this population, according to a report issued today by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

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.

It could be postulated that the prison population would decrease because more people would qualify for jobs.

In 2009, the Justice Policy Institute noted that some states have begun to decrease the size of the prison population — thereby reducing spending — by providing community - based substance - abuse treatment programs, increasing rehabilitation efforts, improving parole mechanisms and services, and decriminalizing nonviolent offenses.105 States that intentionally decreased their prison populations saw crime decrease even faster than national averages.106 Other states should consider such reforms.

These results indicate the feasibility of a Transcendental Meditation (TM) program in a female prison population and that TM may be an effective tool for decreasing trauma symptoms.

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.