Sentence examples for imprisonment crime from inspiring English sources

"The argument has been for so long that if you wanted crime to go down, then prisons had to go up, and the reverse of that is, of course, that if you reduce imprisonment, crime would flourish," Adam Gelb, director of Pew's Public Safety Performance Project and co-author of the report, told HuffPost.

In fact, the relationship between imprisonment and crime control is murky.

Between 2008 and 2016, a total of 21 states recorded double-digit declines in both imprisonment and crime rates.

Barbie was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.

Barbie was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and died in custody.

See articleChen Shui-bian, a former president of Taiwan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes, including embezzlement, forgery and accepting bribes.

Separately, two Afghan officers thought to be working for the Taliban killed 11 policemen in southern Afghanistan.After three years of hearings a UN-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh sentenced two senior leaders of the Khmers Rouges to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed during the regime's rule in Cambodia between 1975-79.

The lay judges will take part in trials of some of the most serious cases: those that could warrant either a death sentence or life imprisonment; or crimes (such as arson) that unintentionally cause someone's death.As ordinary people gain clout in the courtroom, they may also tip the scales in favour of other legal reforms.

Beyond reducing the use of mandatory minimum sentences and shortening prison times for lower-level drug felons, while reserving more serious charges and longer sentences for violent and higher-ranking drug traffickers, the Justice Department supports sentencing more people to rehab than (re- imprisonment fore- imprisonmentin drug abuse and addiction.

Poverty, crime, imprisonment, illiteracy, family collapse – all fall disproportionately hard on the African-American population.

Mr. Marshall's lawyers issued a statement on Friday afternoon denouncing the law that requires imprisonment for his crime.