Sentence examples for prisoners crime from inspiring English sources

Critics say they will hurt prisoners, crime victims and their families and distort a complicated process.

A number of strong correlations have been observed between negative attitudes towards prisoners and more pessimistic and punitive answers to general questions about prisoners, crime and punishment.

The nature of the prisoners' crimes or length of sentence doesn't matter.

The former commander, Jon Burge, was not convicted of abusing prisoners — crimes for which the statute of limitations had passed — but of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about the abuse in a civil case.

I wasn't surprised when 97% of respondents to a prisoner crime reduction survey carried out in 2010 expressed a desire to stop offending.

Thatcher refused to countenance a return to political status for the prisoners, declaring "Crime is crime is crime; it is not political", but nevertheless the UK government privately contacted republican leaders in a bid to bring the hunger strikes to an end.

Other factors, such as the severity of the prisoner's crime, prison time, sex and ethnicity tended not to exert an effect on the rulings, according to the paper, which is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Despite Mr. Menem's pardon, Mr. Massera was arrested in 1998 on charges of having stolen babies born to political prisoners, a crime not covered by the amnesty.

That case was given fresh impetus in September, when a federal court ruled that, in the case of the kidnapping of babies, as well as that of the disappearance of political prisoners, a crime is still being committed until the child's original identity is restored, or the victim's body is recovered.This controversial verdict promises to open the floodgates.

On how well the prison system was coping, she said: "There's been a huge increase in the numbers of prisoners, although crime is going down.

Obviously oblivious to the logic of the incapacitation effect, the adjacent headlines implicitly argue that we should be releasing prisoners because crime rates are declining.