Sentence examples for prisoners behavior from inspiring English sources

The corrections system is losing an important tool in modifying prisoners' behavior, and preparing them for the next step most will take: returning to the streets.

Sketch's pink is only a touch lighter than Baker-Miller pink, also known as "drunk-tank pink," which became familiar in the late nineteen-seventies when a paper published in Orthomolecular Psychiatry claimed that a pair of correctional officers named Baker and Miller had seen a drastic improvement in prisoners' behavior after applying the color to a holding cell.

The officers tend to have a pretty shallow understanding of prisoners' behavior; they receive a minimal amount of training and any instructional sessions they get while on the job are organized sporadically by NGOs.

The centerpiece of the government's cure for the predatory, monopolistic, take-no-prisoners behavior that Microsoft was found to have embraced is to chop the company in two.

Just before I met Greg, his appeals lawyer petitioned the prosecutor for a sentence modification, a procedure in which, on a prosecutor's recommendation, an Indiana judge might amend a sentence and grant an early release for a prisoner whose behavior and record in prison suggest complete rehabilitation.

But in Louisiana, the prisons also backed up when the practice of releasing prisoners for good behavior after 10 years and 6 months of their life sentences was ended in the 1970s.

Hamas legislators and human rights researchers said the worst behavior — prisoners beaten with clubs and cables; suspended from the ceiling while tied up in painful positions; and forced to stand for days — had ended.

In February, lawmakers in Oregon temporarily suspended a program they had expanded last year to let prisoners, for good behavior, shorten their sentences (and to save $6 million) after an anticrime group aired radio advertisements portraying the outcomes in alarming tones.

An effort meant to save us from a form of moral decay became its own insidious brand of moral perversion — turning people who should have been patients into prisoners, criminalizing victimless behavior, targeting those whose first offense was entering the world wrapped in the wrong skin.

(Only prisoners with impeccable behavior are typically eligible for work programs).

In the UK prisoners with good behavior can often hope to serve half their recommended term, meaning even those on a mandatory life sentence for murder could be released in as little as seven-and-a-half years.