Sentence examples for use of imprisonment from inspiring English sources

People are beginning to question whether we can afford this exceptionally high use of imprisonment.

This presupposes long-term planning and a preparedness to take an authoritative overview of the proper use of imprisonment.

Government commissioned reviews by Baroness Corston and Lord Bradley warn that widespread use of imprisonment widens, rather than narrows, health and social inequalities.

Paul Cavadino, of the crime reduction charity Nacro said a strategy designed to cut the use of imprisonment to levels nearer those in continental Europe was needed.

I had gravitated toward the subject upon being struck by how a sophisticated, democratic society had made next to no use of imprisonment.

And despite all this, the dramatic increase in our use of imprisonment has only encouraged a more fearful and insecure population, and has raised unrealistic expectations about the role prison can play in securing a safer society.

Another would extend the use of life imprisonment.

Mr. Riegner and many others had earlier reported the vast and mounting evidence of Nazi persecutions: arrests, deportations, the use of ghettos, imprisonment, forced labor and summary executions.

In July 1999, the Communist Party initiated a campaign to suppress Falun Gong, including through the use of extralegal imprisonment, torture and other coercive measures, and propaganda.

Shaming, ostracism and gossip are often non-regulatory in the sense that members of the public can legally exert these punishments, while the law often consigns the use of execution, imprisonment, corporal violence and fines as exclusive punishments of the state.

It also accuses the government of using a programme of imprisonment, forced disappearance, surveillance and censorship to create a culture of permanent fear and crush all dissent.