Sentences with phrase «than prison inmates»

Kids are spending less time outdoors than prison inmates, and it's leading to a whole host of problems like obesity, nature deficit disorder and lower levels of what could be called «ecological literacy».

With 75 per ‑ cent of children in the UK spending less time outside than prison inmates (survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Persil as part of its «Dirt is Good» campaign) it's going to take more than just schools to get young people outside enough to reap the benefits; benefits that include not just self - development, but also increased academic attainment — one of the core functions of schools.

The amount of time children spend outside is dramatically decreasing, in fact - three quarters of UK children are spending less time outdoors than prison inmates due to lack of green spaces and the influence of technology, indicating we desperately need to reconnect our children with nature to increase their appreciation for their surroundings.

Also, the amount of time children spend outside is dramatically decreasing, in fact - three quarters of UK children are spending less time outdoors than prison inmates due to lack of green spaces and the influence of technology.

Not exact matches

Three hours have been set aside in the morning for Norway's most infamous inmate, who has previously decried his prison conditions as «torture» though they are considered more than comfortable by many.

The Liberal government of Ontario has questioned the bill's price tag, saying it will unnecessarily cost the province more than $ 1 billion due to an expected influx of new prison inmates in the provincial prison system.

The last study released by the Department of Justice was in 2001, and it found that the rate of inmate - on - inmate assaults was 38 percent higher at private prisons than at public prisons.

I've seen figures that high, or higher, among drug users and prison inmates, but you are looking at less than 1/20 in the general population.

Surely Charles Manson, Gary Gilmore and the other former and present inmates of state prison Death Rows — there are presently more than 300 Death Row occupants nationwide — can not be compared with Jesus.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that crowding at California prisons constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, and ordered the state to reduce the number of inmates by more than 30,000.

Many prisons release inmates soon after midnight on the day of their discharge, a perversely legalistic practice (legally, some prison officials say, they do not have the authority to hold prisoners any longer than it takes to process their release).

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.

It's a similar sentiment, softer stance, and less offensive take on it than what Texans owner Bob McNair had at the owners meeting when he said «we can't have the inmates running the prison,» in reference to players kneeling during the anthem.

More than 120 mobile phones that belonged to some inmates of the Kumasi Central Prison have been confiscated by the prison authorities in response to last year's infamous attempted jailbreak in which one inmate was shot dead by a poliPrison have been confiscated by the prison authorities in response to last year's infamous attempted jailbreak in which one inmate was shot dead by a poliprison authorities in response to last year's infamous attempted jailbreak in which one inmate was shot dead by a policeman.

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

The announcement comes a week after the DOJ released a report concluding that private prisons holding federal inmates «incurred more safety and security incidents per capita than» federal prisons managed by the government.

In 2015, almost 11 percent of 4,205 incoming inmates at state prisons had hepatitis C, with more than half of them identifying as injection drug users, according to Joanne Morne, director of the state Health Department's AIDS Institute.

A nationwide study found that assaults on guards by inmates were 49 percent more frequent in private prisons than in government - run prisons.

In 2015 the Government pitched an ambitious # 25m project to build a 1,500 bed prison in Jamaica, with the aim of sending more than 300 Jamaican inmates with sentences of more than four years there.

As prisons are expensive and take a long time to build, the result of a lack of capacity has been overcrowding, which is when prisons have to house more inmates than they are designed for.

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.

As of last December, less than 23,000 federal inmates were housed in private prisons.

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.

On the other hand, Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier in the month said DOCCS was hiring guards because, even though the prison population — now about 52,000 — is shrinking, the inmates who remain are tougher than ever.

Less than two months after the escape of inmates from an upstate prison began to shine light on deficiencies in the state's prison system, the union that represents its officers has taken on new legal representation.

The prison escape by Matt and fellow inmate David Sweat launched a massive 23 - day manhunt amid rugged terrain involving more than 1,100 law enforcement officers in far northern New York.

Jersey City represents a «unique laboratory» for pursuing a renewed effort on prisoner reentry and connecting training with employment, McGreevey said, with more than 1,000 former prison inmates returning to the city each year.

In recent years, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pushed for the closure of state prisons, citing an inmate population decline of more than 17,000 since 1999.

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:

Wilson and Rule found that inmates who had received the death sentence tended to be perceived as less trustworthy than those sentenced to life in prison; in fact, their analyses showed that the less trustworthy a face was deemed, the more likely it was that the inmate received the death sentence.

Spanning a 15 hectare area, this prison houses more than 1200 inmates and employs approximately 300 staff.

In both men's and women's prisons, for example, the most violent inmates have higher levels of testosterone than their less violent peers.

Yet after their release, having been confined in mental hospitals, not prisons, not only are they less likely to reoffend than disordered inmates, but they are even less recidivist than offenders without a recognized mental illness.

I also learned that inmates who have just given birth more often than not come back in the prison severely depressed and many even try to commit suicide.

One American site, in particular, called Prison Penpals, has a monthly list of more than 100 inmates looking for company.

The number of U.S. prison inmates has grown to more than 2 million.

Nationwide, over half of released inmates return to prison within 5 years, but for the past 14 years, less than 1 % of the inmates that received a college degree at Sing Sing returned to prison.

A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.

There are few sights in a movie more poignant than inmates in an institution — a prison, or a mental hospital — mooching around in tracksuits, because you know they're not going to be running anywhere anytime soon.

O'Connell plays a violent, troubled inmate who's more comfortable with prison life than life as a free man.

A retired soldier (James D'Arcy) finds working as a prison warden a hell of a lot more stressful than it looked on Porridge, thanks to the threats from the inmates (including Noel Clarke) and the corruption of his colleagues (including Frank Harper).

The only trouble is, he soon finds that's easier said than done — so roll out the Murphster as prison inmate Reggie Hammond, Ganz's former partner - in - crime.

Yet on average, children spend only one hour a day outside; less than a maximum ‑ security prison inmate.

Consider the following statistics cited in the film: the annual cost of prison for an inmate is more than double what is spent on an individual public school student.

We have produced a larger and more costly prison system than any country in the world — we have 5 % of the world's population and 25 % of its inmates — populated primarily by high school dropouts on whom we would not spend $ 10,000 a year when they were in school, but we will spend more than $ 40,000 a year when they are in prison — a prison system that is now directly devouring the money we should be spending on education.

And in some parts of New England, serving lobster to prison inmates more than once a week was forbidden by law, as doing so was considered cruel and unusual punishment.

There are several tailwinds that could propel private prisons to new heights: private correctional facilities house only a fraction of all inmates in the United States and the world, state and federal governments are more willing than ever to outsource prison management to a private company, and the number of incarcerated people continues to grow at a rate faster than the general population.

With more than 61,000 inmates in the Oklahoma prison system, we have the second highest incarceration rate in the country; are prisons are at 119 % + capacity; and 77 % of Oklahomans personally know someone who has been sent to a correctional facility.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP)-- Officers at Iowa's maximum - security prison use radios with alarms that do not work well during emergencies and poorly trained dogs that can attack staff rather than inmates, according to a regulatory agency that recently...