Sentence examples for prison expansion from inspiring English sources
It focuses on community-based programs rather than excessive mandatory minimum sentencing policies and prison expansion.
And why have his recommendations on prison expansion been taken up so enthusiastically in the light of that failure?
After all, it was only a year ago that the state authorities were planning the next phase of prison expansion.
The surge has filled existing prisons to capacity and prompted commanders to embark on an unanticipated prison expansion plan.
"Has the economics of prison expansion blinded influential state lawmakers to the need for better criminal justice practice?" the report asks.
New York's drug-driven prison expansion, while providing jobs to largely white upstate communities, has devastated black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the cities.
It falls to them, in the few weeks before the budget is finalized, to go to bat for California voters who have demanded a fundamental shift in criminal justice spending from prison expansions to locally based crime prevention and anti-recidivism programs.
Is an increment of presumed advantage in the drug war worth the price of warrantless searches, extreme and irrational punishments, pointless additional prison crowding, expansion of prosecutors' power to take property from people never found guilty of a crime, and further abdication of state powers to federal bureaucrats?
Even the guards' union, which so heavily promoted and supported the tough sentencing of the past that fueled the prison building and expansion boom, now says it supports the idea of alternatives to prison and did not publicly object to the new law.
Political candidates in Mexico with a solid platform for prison reform and expansion would be of great value to the general public safety and could perhaps win election in spite of the inertia and naysaying of the cynical Mexican electorate and pundits.
An Egyptian court has sentenced 12 militant soccer fans to five years in prison in an expansion of the military-backed regime's crackdown on its Islamist and non-Islamists opponents that could ultimately re-position soccer as a major platform of protest.
