Sentence examples for cutting jail from inspiring English sources

A minister has staked his political career on cutting jail violence.

Some of the savings realized by cutting jail populations could support effective representation of defendants during their initial bail hearings, as well as funding programs to prevent crime in the first instance, such as investments in education and jobs.

Specialized drug courts have saved the state millions of dollars by cutting prison and jail time and reducing recidivism, two studies presented by the Judicial Council have found.

Russia's Investigative Committee, which is handling the case, reduced initial charges of piracy to hooliganism in late October, cutting the maximum jail term from 15 years to seven,.

If they'd scoped out better options first, they might have discovered that it makes sense to build a smaller and less expensive jail and invest more in drug and alcohol and mental health treatment, cutting into both the jail and homeless populations.

The plan, which the mayor largely supports, calls for cutting the current daily jail population of 10,000 in half and moving the remaining inmates to new jails across the city.

As always happens in Italy, we need scapegoats". On Twitter, Italians angrily claimed that Schettino's 16-year sentence would likely be reduced thanks to Italy's generous cutting of jail time for good behavior.

When you think about it, being in jail is on the cutting edge of not being in jail.

Eight inmates, including a convicted murderer and a man charged with murder, escaped from a county jail by cutting a hole in the roof, the authorities said.

The men escaped Friday from the jail after cutting a hole in a metal grate then crawling through plumbing tunnels and onto the roof.

That leads to an unsurprising plot device in which a prisoner escapes from jail by cutting out the warden's eyeball and using it to spoof the biometric scanners.