Sentences with phrase «rather than a prison»

Increasingly, bosses are becoming coaches, colleagues, and cheerleaders for the employees they support rather than prison wardens or executioners.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

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.

Clarke, whose focus on rehabilitation rather than prison at the Ministry of Justice angered the tabloid press, is expected to be demoted, probably to Leader of the House — a position currently occupied by Sir George Young.

«We can help disrupt the supply of this poison that is killing people at an alarming rate,» Flynn said, adding that those suffering from opiate addiction who commit non-violent crimes such as petty larceny will receive treatment rather than a prison sentence.

Investing in school systems rather than prison systems would benefit the U.S. student population in more ways than one.

You'll also be treated to fine gourmet meals rather than prison slop.

These buildings require Blob to squeeze inside and pump various amounts of paint points in specific colours into them to turn them back into the happy buildings they used to be, rather than prisons and police stations.

Not exact matches

How about we agree that you just take my word for it (or read my book), rather than try to learn these prison leadership lessons in their natural setting?

His extraordinary family, rather than being a loving haven within which he could grow to maturity, had somehow come to resemble a kind of debtor's prison from which he could escape only by the most strenuous effort.

Prisons were reoriented around the idea of rehabilitating criminals rather than punishing them.

She gave up to her father her newborn son, whom she had been nursing in prison, choosing to surrender her role as mother rather than submit.

(How different a picture one has if one starts with Cost of Discipleship rather than Letters and Papers from Prison.)

In the PBS version of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in the year 1916 a student chooses to go to prison rather than serve in a war he has come to believe is wrong.

It was only when they discovered, with help from the prison chaplain, how guilty and angry their motivations were for dealing with this man and how immobilized they were in responding rather than giving that they were able to discover limit setting, goal setting, responsive listening.

Soon, religious men who idolize the bungholes of young males will be sent to prison rather than being tranferred to another archdiocese or kept secret by cohorts like their wives who will also be going to prison as accessories.

If we took more of an interest in the making of our foreign policy, usually for the profit of our corporate overlords rather than for the safety of the American people, maybe we would know why, when bringing the lamp of liberty to the darker places of the earth, the United States invariably chooses for its allies the despots who operate their countries on the model of a prison or a jail.

We serve proudly in the Israel Defense Forces — as do those soldiers who choose, out of conscience, to sit in a military prison rather than serve in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip today.

The third son left prison, but lived nearby, rather than in his father's house.

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.

On March 16, 2009, while facing 18 months in federal prison for not paying taxes on his whiskey, he decided to take his own life rather than go to prison.

The rabble down the road are very proud of their man and it is a source of pride that one of their own has made it to the High Court rather than the youth offenders prison.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

At that time some civil servants (such as prison officers and immigration staff) were reclassified as «Programme» rather than «Administration».

One change — the scrapping of Indefinite Public Protection sentences — survived and many believe that this is one reason why the prison population is now stable rather than rising rapidly.

Prison officers now are just frustrated that what they're doing now is simply locking and unlocking doors rather than enhancing their skills.»

Rather than private companies getting these brand spanking new prisons and letting us down we want to make sure that they're treated the same as the public sector and sharing best practices.

Over 50 immigration detainees — people who have committed no crime and had no trial — are held in the prison rather than in immigration detention centres.

Prison education is currently organised by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills rather than the MoJ, with contracts often handed out to voluntary and private groups.

Within the context of the prisons crisis, a focus on inspection reports rather than a fundamental rethink really seems to be missing the point.

The measure would require most teenagers convicted of many, but not all, violent and other serious felonies to be treated as minors, which can include a youth or family court venue and juvenile incarceration rather than in general prisons, according to the Raise the Age Campaign.

Lawyers, like me, who find solutions across the prison estate, which enfranchise prisoners, rather than rehabilitate them according to a commercially bound agenda, will read the analysis in disbelief.

«The court affirmed the legality of counting incarcerated individuals in their home communities for the purposes of redrawing district lines, rather than the districts where they are in prison.»

If it turns out this is a systemic problem, rather than just the standard story of the prison service being slow to respond to change, they'll kick up a fuss about it.

«He used a nonprofit's money to serve his own political career rather than his constituency and with today's prison sentence will forfeit his freedom.»

She says it would also reinstitute the practice of using upstate prison populations to boost Senate districts, by counting the inmates where they are imprisoned rather than where they live.

Two leading mental health charities have joined forces to call for offenders with mental health problems to be treated in the community rather than sent to prison..

At a time when the public purse is under pressure, these funds could be better spent on «diversion» programmes where offenders are helped to access community support programmes rather than locked up in overcrowded prisons.

The Liberal Democrats said the report reinforced their argument that the government should order drug treatment for non-serious offenders, rather than send them to prison.

Last year, the Legislature passed a law requiring that prison inmates be counted in their home communities rather than their incarceration address for the purpose of redistricting.

Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, proposes that prison officers be rewarded for their ability to prevent reoffending, suggests victims should, within limits, be able to recommend the length and type of sentence, and proposes directly elected crime commissioners to represent part of a force area within police authorities, rather than a single crime commissioner for each police authority.

One guard, identified by name in the report, spent his work days reading rather than inspecting prison cells.

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

The Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, has said that falling crime rates in past years have been due to increased prosperity rather than rising prison numbers.

A «harm reduction» approach to public health, rather than an abstinence or look - the - other - way policy, scored another win this month when the California state legislature gave the green light to a bill that would provide condoms for adult prison inmates.

Galanek observed, for example, the following instances where an officer's decision — rather than rigidly enforcing prison rules — helped mentally ill inmates and maintain order within the institution:

Kirk used these post-Katrina shifts — driven by an outside natural disaster rather than internal forces such as rising poverty or gentrification — to see whether changes in the concentration of people just out of prison affected reincarceration rates.

The researchers also analyzed studies exploring the effects of an amendment of the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the add - on sentencing laws adopted by a number of states during the 1970s and 1980s, which added prison time to crimes committed with a gun rather than a less lethal weapon.

«There needs to be a rethink of the staffing levels in prisons, rather than adopting methods that will perpetuate the existing arrangements,» he says.

Health care has traditionally been the responsibility of the prison system rather than the medical authorities.