Sentence examples for raise prison from inspiring English sources

This year, Governor Engler is proposing to raise prison spending by nearly 9percentt, about the same as last year.

The union's ultimate goal, apparently, is not to abolish prison labor, but instead to unionize inmates and to press collectively for higher pay and better working conditions, and to raise prison wages to discourage use of prison labor by making it less profitable.

The story features Yodit, a young Ethiopian woman born and raised in prison in the 1970s who now lives in the United States.

"When they were laying off teachers, he was giving double-digit raises to prison guards, the public employees union.

A1 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Concerns Are Raised Over Prison Care Company Prison Health Services, part of a corporation that delivers health care to 175,000 inmates in 27 states, is prepared to begin a nearly $100 million-a-year contract to care for 13,000 prisoners on Rikers Island and in other New York City jails.

The service has also proposed raising the prison term to eight years for those who sell spice as part of a criminal gang, or who sell spice that results in the death of a user.

A7 Haitian Prisoner Raises Doubts From prison, former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune has denounced his case as a "political witch hunt" aimed at seeking vengeance, not justice, against those who supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Consumer groups are campaigning against drunk driving, and the police want parliament to raise the maximum prison sentence from three to five years and to double the heaviest fine to ¥1m ($8,200).

The report also raises concerns about prison overcrowding and the escorting of prisoners between courts and jails.

Successive inspectors of prisons raise the alarm, to absolutely no effect, the latest concerning the Isis youth prison in Kent, which was called by one inmate a "gladiator school".

The tours were so popular that in one year the prison raised $1,000.