Sentence examples for on jails from inspiring English sources

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Mr Cameron will have to take politically unpalatable decisions to ease the pressure on jails, freeing resources for the expensive and time-consuming work of rehabilitation.

However, they are also an admission that more sentences will need to be served in the community because of the pressure on jails.

More than $100bn is spent a year on the justice system in America- more on jails in California than on higher education.

Criticized for its overemphasis on jails, a local committee overseeing realignment in Fresno recently approved using $848,000 from its state total of $20.8 million this year to expand drug rehabilitation programs for people released from jail.

The center is the nation's first to be designed and built with the new reforms in mind and represents a shift from the federal government's longtime reliance on jails and jail-like buildings that immigrant advocates have long argued are inappropriate and unduly harsh for people being held on civil violations.

The counties argue further that they should not be spending millions of dollars on jails at a time when the country as a whole is moving away from mass incarceration and toward rehabilitation, job training and other forms of nonjail approaches.

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"Travis County's experience doing this will tell us what's possible," said Michele Deitch, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and an expert on jail conditions.

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