Sentence examples for higher prison from inspiring English sources

Some scholars have found that English-speaking nations have higher prison rates.

The origins of mandatory minimum sentences, three strikes laws and truth-in-sentencing which create higher prison populations have origins in ALEC's model legislation.

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest prison company in the country, once chaired ALEC's now defunct "Criminal Justice Task Force". The origins of mandatory minimum sentences, three strikes laws and truth-in-sentencing which create higher prison populations have origins in ALEC's model legislation.

Highlighting one fact from the report's 50-state survey, it pointed out that "Tennessee imprisons drug offenders at a rate more than three times greater than New Jersey, but the illicit drug use rate in the two states is virtually the same". States with tougher sentences simply saddle themselves with higher prison costs.

Therefore, it appears that states' more aggressive incarceration policies are behind the higher prison rates.

The United States has a higher prison population--more than 2.2 million inmates--than any other country in the world.

The U.S. has the world's second-highest prison population rate — 698 prisoners for every 100,000 people, according to the Institute for Criminal Policy Research.

And maybe we wouldn't have the highest prison population among civilized nations.

He added that governors were already under pressure from high prison numbers.

Damo Carroll Providing 10,000 more prison places is not the answer when we have the highest prison population in Europe.

Providing 10,000 more prison places is not the answer, when we already have the highest prison population in Europe.