Sentence examples for jails population from inspiring English sources

In addition, Martin said, county jails rely on the early release of nonviolent inmates with GPS monitoring, and together these measures have led to a steady decline in the jails' population since realignment.

That was an increase of 3.9percentt in the jail population and 2.3percentt in the prison population.

In 1980, New York City's jail population was about 7,000, he said.

This was the largest growth in the jail population in five years.

A condition of release into the general jail population is to "debrief" – inform – against gang members.

That works out to about 4.4 percent of the prison population and 3.1 percent of the jail population.

It also estimates that the jail population has grown by several thousand.

A persistently high crime rate, and new minimum sentences, keep the jail population swelling.

That, he said, was primarily a result of Suffolk's growing jail population and its inmate-population projections.

The premier acknowledged that the laws, if passed, could mean a surge in the state's jail population.

The reason the city can pursue this path is that the jail population has been steadily dwindling of late.