Sentences with phrase «prove community sentencing»

While the statistics do support the notion of short sentencing being ineffective on recidivism rates, the CCP claims they prove community sentencing is not the answer.

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«These figures prove that letting thousands of criminals off with one community sentence after another is failing.

With prison proving an inappropriate forum for treating problem drug use, the commission concluded one of the «striking findings» to emerge from its research was that community sentences are likely to be more beneficial.

Sentencing juveniles to appropriate correctional programs, based in the community whenever possible, rather than only to «training schools» or other large - scale detention facilities has proved a cost - effective strategy in Massachusetts and other states; recidivism and juvenile crime rates have remained low in these states.