Sentence examples for a jail system from inspiring English sources

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With fewer than 600 spare places in a jail system with a capacity of just under 86,000, the outcome is by no means certain.

At the correction department, Mr. Reilly analyzed the numbers that matter in a jail system: incidents of violence, delivery of prisoners to programs or to court, overtime.

"The problem with jails is they are so mysterious," said Mr. Reilly, a former top official with New York City's Department of Correction, which oversees a jail system ten times bigger than the county's.

In Philadelphia, where it has worked since 1993 and now cares for about 7,000 inmates in five jails, P.H.S. has come closest to running a jail system like the one in New York City.

This would raise "inmate tension", he notes, and thus violence in a jail system that is already under investigation for abuses of inmates (see article).A lot will depend on how the state measures the progress being made by different counties.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who took office in January, has promised to reform a jail system he has described as broken.

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Mr. Jacobson pointed to this measure as a bellwether for any jail system.

Participants: Veterans (N=73) incarcerated in a county jail system who met SUD diagnostic criteria.

A veteran of the state prisons, she had been brought in to turn around a Los Angeles County jail system reeling from allegations of mismanagement and abuse.

But within 8 months, she was told she was being transferred to Rikers -- a New York City jail system which houses more than 12,000 inmates, most of which are awaiting sentencing.

While the families of former assault victims collectively suspect that Ryan Wells will meet a harsher fate via social media than the state's legal system, it seems like all we can do is hope that a crowded jail system won't result in history repeating itself and, as in the cases of Jill Meagher, Eurydice Dixon and many others, the end of another life.

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