Sentences with phrase «reduce imprisonment»

That Closing the Gap Targets to reduce imprisonment and violence rates are developed, and activity towards reaching the Targets is funded through justice reinvestment measures.

A target to reduce imprisonment rates should be introduced, [141] and investing in mental health and drug and alcohol services be considered as a justice reinvestment measure.

In particular, the AMA believes it is possible to isolate particular health issues (mental health conditions, alcohol and other drug use, substance abuse disorders, and cognitive disabilities are the focus of this report card) as among the most significant drivers of the imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and target them as health issues as a part of an integrated approach to also reduce imprisonment rates.

For example, in addition to improving healthcare for those caught up with the justice system, how about seeking to reduce imprisonment rates?

It recommends that governments adopt an integrated approach to reducing imprisonment rates and improving health through much closer integration of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs), other services and prison health services across the pre-custodial, custodial and post-custodial cycle, and says key elements of this approach would be:

While welcoming the renewed discussion on reducing imprisonment for fine default, Change The Record (CTR) Coalition co-chairs, Antoinette Braybrook and Shane Duffy said there were significant concerns with the use of the social security system to enforce fine payment by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who may already be socioeconomically vulnerable.

[73] While the current Closing the Gap initiatives in areas such as health, education and employment are welcome and will have a long - term positive effect on reducing imprisonment, targets addressing the current over-representation of young Indigenous people are crucial.

Not exact matches

According to John J. DiIulio of Princeton University, a leading expert of prisons and punishment, «much evidence shows that imprisonment reduces crime... The data leave no doubt that the increased use of prisons averted millions of serious crimes [in the 1980s]».

So there is something distinctive about the youth justice system which shows we can reduce crime and imprisonment at the same time.

Instead, the Chautauqua County D.A.'s Office reduced the reckless endangerment, unlawful imprisonment and menacing charges from felonies to misdemeanors.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

The First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama has called on the Ghanaian Society to encourage community service with effective supervision for minor offences as an alternative to imprisonment to help reduce congestion in the prisons.

Like saying you can't stop murder so just reduce the cost of capture, trial, and imprisonment to reduce the negative effect it has on society.

Kenya passed a law which made making, selling and using plastic bags illegal and punishable by up to four years» imprisonment or $ 40,000 in fines, in an attempt to reduce the nation's plastic pollution.

As former prosecutors and state's attorneys, our lawyers know what it takes to get the prosecution to drop or reduce charges, or agree to alternatives to imprisonment.

Between 2010 and 2015, 31 states reduced both crime and imprisonment, proving that fiscal discipline and safe streets can go hand in hand.

«To have imposed a sentence of less than six months» imprisonment would have involved reducing the sentence... [in such a way that it] would have resulted in a demonstrably unfit sentence for a «significant sexual assault» involving anal penetration» the Court held.

Up to 90 days CS (can reduce period of imprisonment) 12 — 48 hours IDRC * Ignition interlock device during license suspension and 1 - 3 years following restoration

Tauli - Corpuz said in a statement that Australia must reduce the «astounding» rates of imprisonment for Indigenous peoples and step up the fight against racism:

But it is also driven by the need to address poverty and disadvantage as an underlying cause of crime and imprisonment, and a need to focus on early intervention programs particularly for at - risk young people, as an extremely cost effective way to reduce crime.

Despite the evidence, Williams said strategies to reduce activities that lead to the imprisonment had been largely ignored by successive Australian governments over the decades.

They should ensure that laws, policies and strategies aimed at, and related to, reducing Aboriginal and Torres Strait imprisonment and violence rates are underpinned by a human - rights approach, and have in place a clear process to ensure they are designed in consultation and partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, their organisations and representative bodies.

Reducing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» rates of imprisonment and experience of violence will take a joint effort by communities, organisations and governments.

It is the AMA's hope that this Report Card will help build momentum for a national integrated approach to reducing both the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and imprisonment gaps — one that understands both as aspects of each other.

Legislation regarding mandatory imprisonment in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, which leads in many cases to imposition of punishments that are disproportionate to the seriousness of the crimes committed and would seem to be inconsistent with the strategies adopted by the State party to reduce the over-representation of indigenous persons in the criminal justice system, raises serious issues of compliance with various articles of the Covenant.

Reconciliation Australia today joins with coalition partners in calling on government to develop justice targets to reduce the high rates of imprisonment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander -LSB-...]

Justice reinvestment provides another argument for critically looking at these laws with an eye to reducing Indigenous imprisonment and expenditure.

The Campaign Steering Committee also recommends that the Closing the Gap Strategy is enhanced by the development of targets to reduce rates of imprisonment and violence and that achieving the targets is funded by a justice reinvestment approach.

Baker, J, The scope for reducing indigenous imprisonment rates, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research — Crime and Justice Bulletin Number 55, Sydney 2001, p3, www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/bocsar1.nsf/pages/cjb55text.