Sentence examples for for reducing incarceration from inspiring English sources

A real solution requires a strategy for reducing incarceration and crime.

Advocates for reducing incarceration argue that a true reform of the prison system must also address the criminalization of immigration.

Senator Webb tried a few months ago to pass legislation creating a bi-partisan blue-ribbon commission to make recommendations for reducing incarceration and recidivism but Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and other Republicans filibustered it.

The letter also calls for a review of sentencing reforms with the goal of reducing incarceration rates amongst Indigenous Canadians.

GROVER NORQUIST President, Americans for Tax Reform Washington, June 20 , 2012  To the Editor: Indeed, the time is ripe as never before on the issue of reducing incarceration rates while preserving public safety.

There's more and more evidence that we're getting diminishing returns for our current incarceration rates and we can do more for less by reducing incarceration and reinvesting those savings into reducing recidivism and investing in ways to build communities rather than break them down".

And we need to ensure that these efforts to include reducing incarceration for those imprisoned for violent crimes, not just non-violent drug offenders.

He wants more Indigenous people to enter politics to effect change from within, and reiterated his calls for the government to introduce a new target on reducing incarceration rates for Indigenous Australians.

McDonnell said he agrees with the goals of the proposition: reducing incarceration while providing treatment for drug addicts.

The Greens senator Rachel Siewert said reducing incarceration rates was a priority for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, and targets could drive that.

Increasing judicial discretion, improving preparation for release, and shortening unnecessarily long sentences can continue safely reducing incarceration and costs.