Sentence examples for support diversion from inspiring English sources

Funds will also be provided to aCommunity Reinvestment Fund that will grow to $50 million annually to support diversion and reentry programs supporting economic development, education, housing, and legal services in communities disproportionately harmed by drug war policies.

Running on a broad reform platform, Johansson, who has won the endorsement of the local Democratic Party, has pledged to support diversion programs for youth offenders to help keep them out of the criminal justice system, end practices that criminalize poverty, mental illness and substance abuse, and stop seeking the death penalty in the county's cases. .

Reformer Johansson had pledged to support diversion programs for youth offenders to help keep them out of the criminal justice system; end practices that criminalize poverty, mental illness and substance abuse; and stop seeking the death penalty in the county's cases.

Seminars are also organized for government and civil society organisations to better understand child rights based diversion and to promote changes in national policies and procedures to support diversion.

Supporting diversion of Yorktown sewage is like supporting the guy who refuses to install gutters on his roof, then wants to pump his resulting basement water into his neighbor's backyard.

Mr. Kaplowitz said his inability to win political support for diversion in the Legislature was partly the fault of city and state officials, who had failed to get adequately involved in the fight despite its regional significance.

Many link the unraveling support for diversion to this frequently articulated allegation of injustice:"This plan will effectively authorize Westchester County to shift an additional environmental burden onto its minority communities for the sole benefit of the white communities within its jurisdiction," Janette Wipper, assistant general counsel for the N.A.A.C.P., wrote to Mr. Spano on March 10.

And with state leadership historically opposed to Medicaid expansion, the poor, homeless, mentally ill and/or substance addicted population LEAD advocates want to target in the city will be hard-pressed to secure the support the diversion program is based on.

Violation of children's rights in detention In addition to the international legal provisions directly in support of diversion and alternatives, it should also be acknowledged that one the main reasons for promoting alternatives in the first place is that it is very difficult to respect children's rights whilst in detention.

Adult Redeploy supports other diversion programs throughout Illinois including drug and mental health courts.

Focus group participants noted the double bind of women who did not qualify for the support of a diversion court because they were convicted of non-felony prostitution while conversely those with a felony conviction suffering from a subsequent lack of education, housing, and employment.