The incarceration rate has been rising faster than the crime rate, driven by harsh sentencing policies like "three strikes and you're out," which impose long sentences that are often out of proportion to the seriousness of the offense.
And my road to activism since has been driven by two sentences.
The correlation in these regions is driven by passive sentences, which place greater reliance on syntax.
The truck was driven by Timothy J. McVeigh, who was sentenced to death and is scheduled for execution on May 16.
The women had already spent more than five months in jail when they were convicted in last month of "hooliganism driven by religious hatred" and sentenced to two years in prison.
Two months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the nation's plan to scale back federal prison sentences for low-level drug crimes, California is still struggling for consensus on how to comply with a federal mandate to reduce prison overcrowding, much of which has been driven by overly harsh drug sentencing.
The activation, however, appears to be driven by word, rather than sentence, processing because both single words and sentences activate the region to the same extent [39, 40].
Activations in the ALE comprehension network outside the temporal lobes (left IFG, SMA/pre-SMA, and Precentral Gyrus) were driven by the use of sentences instead of words, the scanning paradigm, or the type of non-speech baseline.
Federal corrections expenditures, driven by new federal drug-sentencing changes, went from five hundred and forty-one million dollars in 1982 to more than $6.9 billion in 2006, and state corrections expenditures that year totalled more than forty-two billion dollars.
The Meridian case also differs from incidents such as the "kids for cash" scandal uncovered several years ago in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in which juvenile court judges were driven by greed to illegally sentence thousands of children to private detention centers in a racketeering scheme that netted them millions.
