Sentence examples for penal population from inspiring English sources

Muslims constitute a disproportionate majority of the French penal population – an estimated 60%, as opposed to 8% in society at large – and the proportion of Islamic radicals among the country's 68,000 prisoners is growing.

In the past three decades, our penal population has risen from 300,000 to 2,000,000, and black men are heavily over-represented in that rise.

In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase..

Most crime victims have never been at the center of attention of criminal justice policies, nor have their experiences and needs been considered as penal codes and prison populations mushroomed over the past three decades.

The inevitable use of coercion and violence in law enforcement, in the form of police and prisons, itself represents a grave karmic cost of imposing any penal law on segments of the population who do not accept it as legitimate.

That doesn't sound like many murders - on average, about just two per year in prison, but there have been some years, such as 1998, when as many as six prisoners were murdered while in jail; and if we were to express the rate of murder in the penal system, based on an average prison population of 62,500 in 1997-98, woulduldiscoverer a rate of 10 murders per 100,000 of the prison population.

"The new facilities are specifically designed to meet the unique needs of ICE's immigration detention population which is not a penal system".

When the new justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, was last in charge of prisons and penal policy, as home secretary, the average prison population in England and Wales (1992 1993) was 44,628.

And it is not just corruption that has been abolished on the little island but a variety of lesser human infractions, from spitting on the sidewalk to failing to flush a public toilet: the population is subject to an authoritarian penal code.

While most discussions have focused on penal policy reforms leading to decreases in prison populations, it is also true that violent crime rates have dramatically declined across the country since the 1990s.

LAST week the Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its prison population after finding that the state's penal system was so overcrowded that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment.