Sentence examples for reverse prison from inspiring English sources

With that move, Brown came to the fore of efforts to reverse prison growth, decades after he'd played a key role in its expansion.

Comprehensive sentencing reform will not be enough on its own to reverse the prison boom, because the criminal justice system is highly adaptive.

Jeremy Beecham Shadow justice minister, House of Lords Shouldn't your headline have more accurately read "Government partially reverses previous prison staff cuts"?

To reverse the trend, prison officials offered a $3,000 bonus last year to new correction officers in certain units in which the oil and gas boom had created the most competitive hiring environment.

A prison official reversed the disciplinary decision, but only after Mr. Stevens had been punished.

Judge Frederic Block ordered Peter Gotti released from solitary, but prosecutors appealed, and Mr. Gotti remained in solitary until prison officials reversed themselves.

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No one is claiming the reverse will happen and the prison population will dwindle to even 2 million anytime soon, or that prisons will close in significant numbers".

The Justice Secretary also cancelled a contract to run the Saudi Arabian prison system and reversed a ban on prisoners being sent books in prison.

But bipartisan sentencing reforms in a growing number of states are starting to reverse that trend — causing the prison population to decline by about 3.8 percent since 2009.

That is why, although crime is falling, there is no sign of the rise in the prison population being reversed.