Sentence examples for large incarceration from inspiring English sources

The high rates of disease and illness in prisons (Binswanger, Krueger, & Steiner, 2009; Wilper et al., 2009), coupled with large incarceration rates for men and race/ethnic minority groups, suggest a need to examine the role of the prison in the administration of healthcare in U.S. society given that prisons disproportionately house individuals with disadvantaged health profiles.

Speaking about the issues of an anti-drug system focused on enforcement, Carter suggested that large incarceration rates, especially among minorities, were being perpetuated by harsh punishments for marijuana possession.

He's constrained, but we have the largest incarceration rate in the world, he's deported more people than Bush, the economy is in a deeper depression.

Zenica prison was once the largest incarceration facility in Yugoslavia; now it's the largest in Bosnia.

When John Legend spoke at the Oscars, as winner for the song in the film "Selma" (co-written with Common) "Glory," he spoke about the work that still needed to be done, the US having the largest incarceration rate in the world, and how much higher the rate was for black men.

That we have the world's largest incarcerated population our incarceration rate exceeds China, Russia and India combined is the end result of a national Cradle to Prison Pipeline® crisis which is lodged at the intersection of continuing poverty and racial disparities in American life.

But the ripple effects of large-scale incarceration now extend well beyond the individuals who are imprisoned, and as a result minority communities throughout the country have lost political influence.

Indeed, the practices at far too many schools in the U.S. reflect the larger mass incarceration phenomenon.

But, it neglects the realities young black men and boys face every day in America: higher rates of poverty, arrests and incarceration, large health disparities and lower educational attainment rates.

In part because of federal grants to states to incarcerate drug offenders, the United States experienced the largest increase in incarceration in the history of the free world.

With brown eyes wide behind large glasses and incarceration-gray hair cut close to the scalp, the ex-inmate dined on ribs, coleslaw, fried okra, and root beer.