Sentence examples for jail expansion from inspiring English sources

On Long Island, Suffolk County has recently sued the commission, accusing it of arbitrary and capricious enforcement of state law in a dispute over jail expansion.

The Poughkeepsie Journal reported that as a result, Dutchess may have to house 60 to 80 inmates a day somewhere else and that the county may have to reconsider the jail expansion.

- Thanks to nonexistent oversight and really bad math, taxpayers in Palm Beach are left holding the bill for a stalled $150 million jail expansion that, six years later, has netted the county 218 fewer beds than they started with.

Now, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is considering a proposal to spend as much as $2.3 billion on a massive jail expansion, with a significant portion of that money going to facilities for mentally ill inmates, who currently make up nearly 20% of the jail population.

"It is usually the high-profile, high-emotion cases" that override concerns about prison crowding, said Lizzie Buchen, state coordinator for Californians United for a Responsible Budget, a collection of groups whose acronym, CURB, reflects their opposition to prison and jail expansion.

On Thursday, at a hearing on criminal justice held by the Little Hoover Commission, a California watchdog agency, Lyman of the Drug Policy Alliance denounced Brown's 2011 reform as a "failed policy" and called LA's jail expansion the "epitome" of that effort.

Instead of the wire cages and Nissen huts we lived in, walls were going up in a new phase of the jail's expansion.

De Blasio began by returning to accomplishments over the past year, highlighting reform at the city's jails, the expansion of free prekindergarten for over 50,000 city residents and the reduction of stop-and-frisk policing.

A judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court, "with more than 31 years on the criminal bench," Smerling argued that the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, which is considering whether or not to fund an expansion of jail facilities, should fund a diversion program to treat the mentally ill in a therapeutic setting.

This ploy has been the perfect rationale for the wild spending on and expansion of jails, and prisons.

LA's expansion of its jail system contrasts sharply with changes taking place across the country.