Sentence examples for in incarceration for from inspiring English sources

The racial and ethnic disparity in incarceration for drug offenses is particularly striking in NYS, where in 2001 the ratio of African American males to white males ages 21-44 incarcerated for drug offenses was greater than forty to one (Beck and Harrison 2001).

Unless Louisiana changes its laws, it is likely to continue to lead the world in incarceration for a long, long time.

Reagan greatly expanded the reach of the drug war and his focus on criminal punishment over treatment led to a massive increase in incarcerations for nonviolent drug offenses, from 50,000 in 1980 to 400,000 in 1997.

Half a million people are now in prison or jail for drug offenses, about 10 times the number in 1980, and there have been especially sharp increases in incarceration rates for women and for people over 55, long past the peak age for violent crime.

In 2012 Nasheed wrote an opinion piece in the Financial Times where he said that he was no stranger to jail, "having spent much of my adult life in incarceration, punishment for advocating democracy in my country".

As a child, Mr. Salzman said, he was beaten by his foster mother; much of his adolescence was spent in juvenile incarceration, for fighting.

Two of the most notorious criminals in the country are back in the news, but it is not possible to consider either Jon Venables breaking the terms of his parole or Peter Sutcliffe asking for his minimum term to be set without asking if there's any place in modern incarceration for the life-that-means-life sentence.

Khaled Dawoud, assistant editor-in-chief of Al Ahram Weekly said in a tweet the Journalists' Union was to hold an emergency meeting to protest the draft anti-terror law that would result in the incarceration for two years of any journalist who contradicts official statements.

In between, there was an incredible, tenacious rise to the top of the international skate scene, followed by a dramatic, very public fall from grace, which resulted in Tas' incarceration for drug trafficking, and Ben's killing of his girlfriend and then himself.

In the Potter books and movies, Gellert Grindelwald was a famous dark wizard whose early friendship with Albus Dumbledore ultimately corroded to the point that the pair duelled in 1945, resulting in Grindelwald's incarceration for more than half a century in the continental European fortress of Nurmengard.

This problem is further reinforced by the ideology of legal coercion: Treatment failure results in incarceration or other punishment for the patient not negative consequences or fewer referrals from the justice system for the program.