Sentence examples for rather than incarcerating from inspiring English sources

Governors and advocates who boast of success at reducing state prison populations notably in red states met with the president and son-in-law Jared Kushner on January 11 to plead for similar measures in the federal system, but the discussion was largely confined to rehabilitating the incarcerated rather than incarcerating fewer people in the first place.

Treating such offenders, rather than incarcerating them, may therefore reduce recidivism.

"Rather than incarcerating repeat offenders in the same families generation after generation, we can put our taxpayer dollars to better use to break this vicious cycle and turn lives around," Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a former prosecutor and one of the bills sponsors, said in a statement.

A recent statement by Rebekah Gee, Louisiana's Health Secretary alluded to the importance of "treating mental illness and addiction rather than incarcerating" (O'Donnell, 2016).

"We need to stand up for the hurt and the wounded," Christie said as he discussed helping those with drug addiction get treatment rather than incarcerating them.

An optimistic view of the brain disease model suggests that it provides a rationale for offering treatment to drug addicted offenders rather than incarcerating them for crimes related to their addiction (e.g. drug possession, crimes committed in order to obtain drugs) [ 4].

On prison issues … he insists that nonviolent criminals should not be jailed, that more convicts should be paroled, and that drug offenders should be treated rather than incarcerated.

According to the Council of State Governments Justice Center, more than 300 cities and counties across the U.S. have established mental health or drug courts, in which the mentally ill and those with substance use disorders are sent to treatment rather than incarcerated.

The goal may be to rehabilitate youth rather than incarcerate, "but as a practical matter, we're locking them up," he tells me.

She's determined to study them, rather than be incarcerated in one of them.

It conceded only that they will be allowed to live – temporarily at least – within the community rather than being incarcerated in the immigration detention centre at the far end of the island.