Sentences with phrase «reducing incarceration»

Reducing incarceration rates and working with local people to make effective change through grass roots people.

Until late 2016, there appeared to be no consideration that the federal government might even have a role to play in reducing incarceration.

As NAIDOC week celebrated the theme «Songlines, The Living Narrative of our Nation», Croakey published this timely interview with Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi man Clinton Walker who talked about fostering connections to culture and country with the aim of reducing incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Targets that allow us to focus on community safety, preventing crime and reducing incarceration.

6pm - 7 pm #ATSISPEP (suicide prevention) & #JustJustice (reducing incarceration) Summer May Finlay, Yorta Yorta woman, Croakey contributor, PhD candidate @OnTopicAus

Labor: Does not mention justice issues in its Indigenous health election statement but Opposition leader Bill Shorten pledged last November to set justice targets with a focus on community safety, preventing crime and reducing incarceration, and to support research into justice reinvestment.

We need an approach to reducing incarceration which is holistic and considers all the factors including education, health, housing, country, Culture and early support programs.

Rowland's document asked the museum to enter into a Social Impact Bond or a «Pay for Success» contract to invest in reducing the incarceration of adults.

He specializes in criminal justice issues, specifically reducing incarceration rates.

Researchers also found that prison education programs are cost effective, with a $ 1 investment reducing incarceration costs by $ 5 during the first three years post-release.

The six - point plan, which also called for reducing incarceration rates and investing in schools to close what King termed the «school to prison pipeline,» is the broadest package yet proposed by Democratic gubernatorial candidates, though they all have pushed various justice reform issues, particularly Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.

He believes in the power of the people, as evidenced by his steadfast support for Participatory Budgeting, reducing incarceration rates and taking to the streets against the 1 % during Flood Wall Street; he helps to empower the people to act.

When that happens, we as a society benefit with a stronger, more prepared workforce, increased school success, and reduced incarceration and remedial education costs.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

Here he does have something new to propose: not anything that will reduce the incarceration rate, but some effort to reduce the extensive «collateral sanctions» that come with a prison sentence and make getting a job and rehabilitation so hard.

And, while efforts to reduce incarceration rates are afoot, U.S. crime rates remain among the highest in the world.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

These services will increase the efficiency of the Courts, reduce the burden on government agencies, reduce incarceration rates, and promote the general welfare of the local community.

The creation of the conditional sentence suggests a desire to reduce incarceration.

The Court upheld the original sentence, agreeing with submissions that Mr. Duncan's team made, that although sentences in older riots were longer and harsher, that amendments to the Criminal Code in 1996 that were designed to reduce incarceration in favour of rehabilitation made those older cases ones which must be approached with some caution.

San Francisco, CA About Blog CJCJ promotes balanced and humane criminal justice policies that reduce incarceration and promote long - term public safety.

Maybe then real gains might be made to reduce incarceration rates of young people and we can see #JustJustice.

In the second of her series of articles for the crowd - funded #JustJustice project, Williams says that prisoners, victims of crime and taxpayers will benefit from reduced incarceration rates when governments implement the evidence on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» approaches to holistic health care, develop collective healing programs and address the underlying determinants of incarceration, such as poverty.

She said that prisoners, victims of crime and taxpayers would benefit from reduced incarceration rates when governments implemented evidence on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» approaches to holistic healthcare, developed collective healing programs and addressed the underlying determinants of incarceration, such as poverty.

While it is clearly critical that abusive individuals and systems in the NT are held to account, there are suggestions it will be a missed opportunity if the Royal Commission does not examine some of the wider issues, including the need to prevent and reduce incarceration of Indigenous youth in the first place.

When that happens, we as a society benefit with a stronger, more prepared workforce, increased school success, and reduced incarceration and remedial education costs.

Law, Justice and Cultural Rights: Facilitate access to flora, fauna, land and sea for all Aboriginal communities and endure Aboriginal rights, increase awareness of and understand within the law and justice system and reduce incarceration rates for Aboriginal people.

Not exact matches

«The data makes it clear that ending the War on Drugs will not alone end mass incarceration, but that the federal government and some states have effectively reduced their incarcerated populations by turning to drug policy reform,» the report says.

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

My point is, if a belief in hell reduces crime, than why is it that christards and muzzies, who both believe in hell, have higher incarceration rates than atheists, who do not believe in hell.

While intervention on the family level is thought to have great promise in reducing recidivism, in order to effectively guide research and intervention, current theory must be evaluated for its sensitivity to the context of incarceration and additional theoretical work is needed to conceptualize how incarceration affects paternal identity.

At 9 a.m., the Vera Institute of Justice hosts Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Reduce Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration, Tumblr Inc., 35 E. 21st St., Manhattan.

The plan the mayor outlined aims to reduce the jail population to 5,000 after a decade, which he said would allow the city to relocate all inmates from its famous — and infamous — incarceration island.

Last week, de Blasio released a «roadmap» for phasing out the incarceration center, which mostly reiterated steps he called for when he announced a plan to shutter Rikers in March: combining sentencing, bail, mental health and rehabilitation reforms to reduce the city's inmate population from 9,300 to 7,000 by 2021 and 5,000 by 2027.

She did not provide any cost estimates, arguing only that on a per - person cost creating supportive housing units will ultimately reduce City spending as such housing is less expensive than the cost of incarceration.

«We are proud that New York City leads the country in reducing both crime and incarceration, but there is much work still to do.»

We are reducing the madness of an incarceration society and ending a system of unnecessary human and financial waste.

Reducing recidivism means less crime, it means safer communities, it means fewer taxpayer dollars spent on incarceration.

«Eric's public support for good, well - paying jobs with a living wage, equal rights and social justice reform, plus his innovative approaches to reducing our city's reliance on incarceration, make him the right choice to continue moving Brooklyn forward,» Gresham said.

Clinton downplayed the clash that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had with protesters who criticized his record on criminal justice at a campaign event last week and said that if she was elected she would work to reduce unnecessary incarcerations.

``... she would work to reduce unnecessary incarcerations»?

«At the same time, the Mayor is expanding alternatives to incarceration, simplifying the bail and summons systems, and reducing solitary confinement while working to close Rikers Island.

«My vision would be to reduce mass incarceration of non-violent offenders by fifty percent over the next ten years, 25 percent over the next five years.

«He's built upon Ken Thompson's progressive legacy — and will continue to increase public safety for Brooklynites, while reducing our reliance on incarceration.»

Over the past several years, the jail's inmate population has been significantly reduced to approximately 1,200 inmates by the county's efforts to find safe and cost - effective alternatives to incarceration, such as supervised pre-trial release, credit card bail and other means of supervision.

The pardon plan also comes amid a national debate over reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders, in part because of the cost of mass incarceration and concerns about racial inequality in the criminal justice system.

Other interventions, such as in - home visitation by nurses and therapeutic foster care as an alternative to juvenile incarceration, and universal school - based violence prevention programs have proven effective, and expanding these programs could reduce the numbers of injuries even further.»

With deaths from heroin overdoses in the US on the rise, policies are shifting from incarceration to preventing overdoses and reducing harm

«The message for other states is clear: investment in well - funded, recovery - oriented, comprehensive community mental health programs clearly improves lives of people with serious mental illness, and may also save money from reduced dependency and incarcerations in this population.»

This marriage - gap has been explained by high incarceration rates among black men, reducing their income and marriage prospects for the future, and the growing divide in education rates between black women and black men.