Sentence examples for lowest incarceration from inspiring English sources

Maine and Minnesota tied for the lowest incarceration rate, with 141 inmates per 100,000 residents.

It has one of the lowest incarceration rates in Europe – less than half of those of England and Wales or Scotland.

The states with the lowest incarceration rates were Minnesota, with 128 inmates per 100,000 residents; Maine, with 129 inmates per 100,000; and North Dakota, with 158 inmates per 100,000.

(Sweden imprisons about 80 people per 100,000 of population; Minnesota, about 300; and Texas, almost 1,000. Maine has the lowest incarceration rate in the United States, at 273; and Louisiana the highest, at 1,138).

As a result, among the 10 most populous states — including Texas, which is reforming its system — New York had the lowest incarceration rate and the lowest crime rate in 2010, according to the Pew Center on the States ("Prison Count 2010").

(Though New York's relatively low incarceration rate does make a powerful case for the Bloomberg approach, since the social costs of stop-and-frisk are much lower than the costs of mass incarceration).

Germany takes a different approach to its prisons -- and with its relatively low incarceration rate, low recidivism among offenders and low crime overall, it must be doing something right.

Japan maintained a very low crime rate and one of the lowest imprisonment rates in the world, though some moderate increases in the severity of punishments, including incarceration, created conditions of overcrowding in its prisons starting in the 1990s.

For a state to rank high on the Peace Index, it must have comparatively low levels of violent crime and homicide, low rates of incarceration and small arms availability, and reduced policing.

The top five most peaceful U.S. states on the index -- Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota and North Dakota -- landed there because of their low levels of violent crime and homicide, low rates of incarceration and small arms availability, and reduced policing.

That's why this legislation is specifically targeted to support the women and girls who need them most: In New York City, 79percentt of public school students are from low-income families; incarceration disproportionately affects low-income and minority communities; and being homeless often means having to prioritize food or housing over buying menstrual products.