Sentence examples for custody rate from inspiring English sources

Joining up social and criminal justice policy at last is a better legacy or major milestone, whichever it proves to be, than achieving the highest custody rate in Europe or becoming world leader in prison privatisation.

UK Calll to cut UK youth custody rate', BBC News article (online) 3 September 2009 [Word 26kb] Media coverage of a report by the Prison Reform Trust calling on UK authorities to mimic radical measures from overseas to cut youth crime and the number of children in prison.

"They are a useful tool in supporting our capacity management policies as they take into account future demographics and make assumptions about how custody rates and average custodial sentence lengths could change based on observed trends.

Then they turn up to the conference and find a pimply adolescent".The potential for softening hearts is appealing, since it was public clamour for tougher sentences that helped push up custody rates in the 1990s.

These and other upheavals, including losses of traditional lands, have left a legacy of trauma, poor health and high prison-custody rates among aborigines.

Eoin Lawrence, head of safer custody at HMP Swansea, remembers only too well the dark days of high death-in-custody rates and is proud of the prison's seven listeners and of Swansea's approach to looking after vulnerable people.

For children and young people in custody the rate of re-offending rises to 75%.

Today, 20 out of every 1,000 children in Bushwick are in the city's protective custody, a rate 10 times as high as it is in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and seven times what it is in solidly middle-class Bayside, Queens, according to city figures.

In provincial and territorial custody, the rates are even higher, at 36percentt for women and 25percentt for men, according to Statistics Canada.

Since the rioting and looting after the death April 19 of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered severe spinal injuries while in police custody, crime rates have spiked.

In 2009, Dr Tseng and colleagues published an epidemiological study on the in-custody death rates of 50 California police departments in the five years before and five years after they adopted ECWs.