Sentence examples for level of incarceration from inspiring English sources

All it's done has burden us with the highest level of incarceration in the world.

One result is our staggering level of incarceration, the highest in the world.

"We aren't really getting the return in public safety from this level of incarceration," said Susan Urahn, the center's managing director.

Tina Kankia, another member of Russia Behind Bars, said the protests had helped the cause of judicial reform, and in the coming years could energize a large following in Russia because of the country's high level of incarceration, close to that of the United States.

"It doesn't connote an easier level of incarceration".

But as important, this level of incarceration has devastated the children, the neighborhoods, the lifetime livelihoods, and even the very health, of the imprisoned themselves.

A case in point here is Aboriginal levels of incarceration.

This would help reduce the shameful levels of incarceration of Indigenous Australians.

Reversing years of toughening political rhetoric in Washington, attorney general Eric Holder declared that levels of incarceration at federal, state and local levels had become both "ineffective and unsustainable".

There are better uses of taxpayer dollars than to maintain high levels of incarceration simply to enrich the shareholders of for-profit prisons or to maintain prison jobs.

"Jailhouse Blues" (editorial, Nov. 22) shows one of the many ways that record levels of incarceration in the United States distort a free society.