Sentence examples for correctional reform from inspiring English sources
She has expertise in state sentencing and correctional reform, legislative drafting, bipartisan commissions, state corrections and courts, and implementing evidence-based criminal justice practices with departments of corrections.
Encouraged by the federal Second Chance Act of 2008, which aims to promote correctional reform, several states have cut recidivism by giving newly released inmates access to drug treatment or mental health care, focusing parole supervision on the riskiest offenders, and developing a system of community-based sanctions that sends only troubled or repeat offenders back to prison.
"The Replacements" is "Rudy" and "Major League" rolled into one anti-union comedy starring Gene Hackman as the coach, who has now gone from coaching fresh-faced high schoolers in "Hoosiers" to leading a team with a convict in some kind of modern correctional reform: a scab football work-release program.
c The patient underwent a correctional osteotomy.
According to my good friend and retired 23-year veteran of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Jack Donson, the ability to reduce the prison population and reform correctional practices by legislation is only part of the solution.
Reforming the correctional system is no vote winner, not even in a democracy as purportedly enlightened as America.
In September, U.S. District Judge Lance Africk in New Orleans approved a team of monitors or correctional experts to implement reforms at the prison.
Further, by the end of this year, Cameron's plan calls for transforming six as-yet-undesignated correctional facilities into pilot program "reform prisons".
Strong correctional unions are essential to justice reform.
I don't believe that correctional officer unions work against justice reform; I think we ask them too seldom to work for it.
Another is that there are politically powerful groups, such as district attorney associations and correctional officer unions, that aggressively oppose reforms and land victories such as Sessions' emphasis on mandatory minimum sentencing.
