Our penal system is biased toward incarcerating the most disadvantaged.
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Stop incarcerating families seeking refuge in private prisons at taxpayer expense.
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"We're incarcerating people of color in such staggering numbers," she said.
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Like everywhere, we are disproportionately over-incarcerating our black and Latino youth.
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Making abortions illegal and incarcerating women and doctors will be hugely unpopular.
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Cory Booker brought them up to blast incarcerating people who use drugs.
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The U.S. cracked down vigorously, spending billions of dollars incarcerating drug users.
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After weeks of public outcry, the administration has begrudgingly agreed to replace a policy of incarcerating children by themselves to incarcerating them with their family members, although questions remain as to whether reunification is even possible in many cases.
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And one of them was very articulate, "President Trump is incarcerating these children".
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Incarcerating people for using marijuana serves neither the individual's nor the public's interest.
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Black female rage is an incarcerating stereotype whose social costs remain absurdly high.
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That's partly because we are incarcerating women at much higher rates than before.
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Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan was known for brutally incarcerating and torturing his political opponents.
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It will ban California from incarcerating anyone in privately-run facilities altogether from 2028.
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In Turkey, they're actually incarcerating the media -- be careful when you travel there, sir.
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And, as each of their stories illustrate, incarcerating children should be a last resort.
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It's time to stop incarcerating gang members and make their crimes punishable by automatic death.
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Incarcerating 20-year-old men for 85033 or 40 years is essentially a life sentence.
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None of those principles is served by routinely testing and incarcerating people for marijuana use.
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The country was incarcerating more people than ever, and the U.S. government couldn't keep up.
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We have community-based programs that are significantly more effective, and cheaper, than incarcerating somebody.
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"When you incarcerate one person you're incarcerating their family, their future, their community," DuVernay told NPR.
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They robbed that person of sustaining a healthy pregnancy by incarcerating them at their own discretion.
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World Special Report: China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps.
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San Francisco ranks at the other end of the scale, incarcerating about 353 people per 100,000.
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The problems with trying children as adults, let along incarcerating them well into adulthood, are many.
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Cotton, it will mean ignoring studies demonstrating the detrimental effects of incarcerating children for status offenses.
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Incarcerating an older prisoner can cost up to five times as much as jailing a younger one.
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He also said that South Korea should Christianize itself by incarcerating all Buddhist monks on an island.
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Ripping that all away by incarcerating them for failing to register only leaves the public at risk.
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For years we have been warning U.S. policymakers about the rise of incarcerating elderly and sick people.
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Sezibera also accused Uganda of incarcerating, torturing and illegally deporting its citizens "for reasons we don't understand".
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He noted how every year, $9 billion is wasted incarcerating people who have not been convicted of crimes.
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I do not think that incarcerating parents for the deaths of their children in these cases is appropriate.
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Samour later adds that the government acted with "conscience-shocking" indifference in re-incarcerating Lima-Marin in 2014.
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The Trump administration's policy of criminalizing and incarcerating families crossing the southern border has been unnecessary and counterproductive.
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He previously had been held in a high-security federal prison in Arizona known for incarcerating sex offenders.
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He said incarcerating Mr. Johnson would have a chilling effect on addicts who call 911 when someone overdoses.
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Some states, like Florida and Indiana, have taken a "tough on crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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Some states, like Louisiana and Indiana, have taken a "tough on crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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Some states, like Florida and Indiana, have taken a "tough on crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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Insistently repeated press rolls on the snare generate the need to break out — rhythmically — while simultaneously incarcerating this need.
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They suggest ending the practice of incarcerating those awaiting trial for nonviolent crimes and reclassifying some low-level offenses.
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In America, for example, incarcerating a federal convict costs eight times as much as putting the same convict on probation.
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For the cost of incarcerating a juvenile in some states, a child could receive a quality private school college education.
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Kentucky bills people held in its jails for the costs of incarcerating them, even if all charges are later dismissed.
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Is black death more palatable than accepting the racist reality of slaveholding America, of segregating America, of mass-incarcerating America?
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Instead of spending $80 billion incarcerating predominantly poor Black and brown people, we should be investing in schools and jobs.
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The U.A.E. has cracked down much harder on Islamists since 2011, arresting and incarcerating them en masse, on thin pretexts.
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Since then, innocent people have lost over 22,315 years of their lives and taxpayers have spent $4.12 billion incarcerating them.
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His attorneys general, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, reshaped the Department of Justice -- with a focus on incarcerating fewer people.
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This approach leads to massive enforcement costs, not to mention the human costs of incarcerating people for a victimless pastime.
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It's obviously also time to reconsider incarcerating people whose only crime is possessing the drugs to which they are addicted.
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Some states, such as Louisiana and Indiana, have taken a "tough on crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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That doesn't include the costs of arresting and incarcerating offenders in local jails before they are sent to a state prison.
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One recent study found that our national bill for incarcerating two million people each year is actually closer to $1 trillion.
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Thankfully, last year, Washington, D.C., joined half of U.S. states which either ban or shun the practice of incarcerating status offenders.
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The cost of incarcerating these people has drained state and federal budgets, while failing to reduce drug addiction and overdose deaths.
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The Administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama also experimented with keeping families together when incarcerating migrants and asylum seekers.
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"Incarcerating violent people has a big effect on violence," John Roman, senior fellow at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, said.
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It allows them them to keep an eye on someone, and manage their activities, without incarcerating them, or laying formal charges.
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"If we're incarcerating people because we don't like the negative effects of drugs, what this study shows is it's counterproductive," King said.
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Research has shown that incarcerating young people doesn't work — in fact, time in "juvie" is the single largest predictor of future incarceration.
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But zero tolerance will continue to wreak havoc, and incarcerating children with their parents, as the order stipulates, is no real solution.
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But a general rule in economics — the law of diminishing marginal benefits — applies to incarcerating additional people or adding years to sentences.
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Incarcerating young men and women, instead of educating and empowering them, is how our country gets left behind on the world stage.
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Our immigration policy revolves around incarcerating innocent children, often in appalling conditions, and rejecting desperate asylum applicants fleeing the most extreme danger.
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You when I have friends, Democratic friends, who were very upset when President Obama had his deportation policy and was incarcerating people, families.
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We can do better than prosecuting and incarcerating 16- and 17-year-olds charged with nonviolent crimes on the same terms as adults.
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We support evidence-based approaches and want to encourage the reinvestment of savings from incarcerating fewer individuals into much-needed services to support survivors.
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He warns that the DOJ could end up spending one-third of its budget on incarcerating people, rather than preventing, detecting, or investigating crime.
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SCAAP, which reimburses State, local, and tribal governments for prior year costs associated with incarcerating certain illegal criminal aliens, is unauthorized and poorly targeted.
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" Ginsberg shared the legal concerns: "Incarcerating people and giving people criminal records is one of the most damaging things you can do to someone.
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If Avery really is innocent, just how reliable is this system that is charged with incarcerating people, potentially for life, and even executing them?
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Research now suggests that incarcerating people accused of, or convicted of, minor crimes does little to prevent crime, and may even contribute to it.
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But in 1980, spurred on by advocacy from some juvenile court judges, Congress loosened protections against incarcerating youth for running away from home or truancy.
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The United States has more expansive laws for incarcerating people who joined terrorism groups, including the offense of providing material support to a terrorist organization.
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Another option that experts are urging courts and law enforcement to consider is simply not incarcerating anyone who doesn't pose a risk to public safety.
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A few notes of caution: The group supports criminal justice reform, including incarcerating fewer people, and seeks to promote the voices of victims who agree.
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As the minister most recently responsible for incarcerating asylum-seekers in foreign processing centres, he has positioned himself as one of his party's most reactionary figures.
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In a recent article, pollster Celinda Lake says that by a two to one margin, voters believe that our country relies too much on incarcerating people.
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Ampry-Samuel said that her district contains so-called million-dollar blocks, where the annual cost of incarcerating a city block's residents is a seven-figure sum.
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As prosecutors with almost 40 years of combined experience, we support and understand the public safety imperative that at times necessitates incarcerating those who break the law.
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Individuals incarcerated for nonviolent drug crimes — 50 percent of the federal prison population — pose a low risk, and the costs of incarcerating these people outweigh the benefits.
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Some states have also talked up treatment programs, although others, like Louisiana and Indiana, have taken a "tough-on-crime" approach that focuses on incarcerating drug traffickers.
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Before incarcerating someone who hasn't paid a traffic ticket, judges in Texas must find out if they are too poor to pay, and if so, offer them alternatives.
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"That means we spend a million dollars a year on average in New York City and in the state incarcerating my constituents on just one block," she said.
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My experience in juvenile hall, and from working with others who spent time there, has taught me how wasteful it is to spend so much on incarcerating kids.
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Stretch all the way back to Agnes Richter, and suddenly a beautiful cropped jacket requires thought about mental health, erasure of voice, and the history of incarcerating women.
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There are some people who portray addiction as untreatable, because there's a lot more money in endlessly "maintaining" or incarcerating sickness than will ever exist in supporting wellness.
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Disinvest in incarceration Criminal justice solutions are 750 percent more costly than other options; a corpus of evidence demonstrates that incarcerating large numbers of drug users is ineffective.
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She has been criticized for her remarks as first lady in reference to criminal justice legislation championed by Bill Clinton, which had the effect of disproportionately incarcerating Black Americans.
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"At our border with Mexico, our country is taking terrified little children from their parents and incarcerating them in camps behind chain link fences," Bredesen said in a statement.
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If Rick does take his son's words to heart and spare Negan's life, it's unlikely Negan would ever relinquish his role as a leader, which necessarily means incarcerating him.
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The project also tallies the cost of incarcerating kids in every state, comparing the most expensive confinement option per child to the cost per student of public school education.
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Hopwood, who is now an associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center, said the cost of prison programming is a fraction of what's spent on reprosecuting and incarcerating someone.
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Social Studies John Okada's "No-No Boy" captures the injustice of incarcerating Japanese-Americans during World War II — and serves as a warning today for our own fractured society.
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Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) unloaded on Harris, blasting her for incarcerating people for marijuana use and seeking to hide tainted evidence that eventually ended up dismissing 1,000 drug-related cases.
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The crime bill did not significantly lower crime rates; it did, however, help transform the United States into the world's warden, incarcerating more of its residents than any other country.
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Recently it was reported that the office of the district attorney of Orleans Parish is arresting and incarcerating victims who get scared and refuse to come to court to testify.
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The steps outlined in two executive orders set the stage for incarcerating thousands of immigrants who do not represent a threat, for widespread civil rights violations and for racial profiling.
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Those states that have begun to reduce their prison populations are seeing that their crimes rates are continuing to drop, often faster than states that still are the most incarcerating.
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Although he did vote for the Cures Act, his record on marijuana and stated views on incarcerating drug users suggests he takes a view more in line with Bennett than Botticelli.
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While serving as a high-profile surrogate for his wife's 2016 presidential campaign, former President Clinton admitted to supporting policies that "overshot the mark" by incarcerating too many people of color.
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As the prison population gets larger, the additional prisoner is more likely to be a less risky, nonviolent offender, and the value of incarcerating him (or, less likely, her) is low.
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If you go back through American history, security concerns are a justification for a lot of things that we got away with, from negative racial relations, incarcerating individuals, going to war.
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After an initial welcome, the U.S. government followed suit, incarcerating thousands of Mariel Cubans, often for decades, when they were not serving criminal sentences, because Castro would not take them back.
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The war on drugs has become a de-facto war on people of color, incarcerating record numbers of African Americans to the point that it has become a human rights issue.
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And in general, the federal government plays a relatively small role in the criminal justice system — with the great majority of policing, prosecuting, and incarcerating happening at the local and state level.
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Even if you think 100% of those prisoners deserve to be in prison, you have to concede that economically, incarcerating 1 in 110 people in this country is an expensive government investment.
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In announcing the largely symbolic move, Pompeo said Gandarilla Bermejo was also responsible for "arbitrarily arresting and detaining thousands of Cuban citizens and unlawfully incarcerating more than 100 political prisoners in Cuba".
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" Gargour said: "From a civil liberties point of view obviously incarcerating people doesn't give us comfort, and that's why we've seen spreads on Saudi bonds go 50 basis points or so wider.
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Instead of incarcerating people who are merely accused of a crime, we need to prioritize community investments in education, housing, rehabilitation and our mental health systems to truly make our communities safe.
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We don't yet know what this policy change may look like, but one thing we know for sure is that incarcerating low-level, nonviolent offenders in federal prisons is not the answer.
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Beyond independent case outcomes, the problems facing public defender offices are emblematic of a deeper issue within the US criminal justice system, which has prioritized incarcerating individuals who are convicted of crimes.
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Despite the well-meaning efforts of countless Americans, despite the tireless work of organizations like Freedom for Immigrants and the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, America is currently in the business of incarcerating people.
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As one example, New York received more than $22019 million, and by 2000, the state had added more than 12,000 prison beds, incarcerating 28 percent more of its citizens than a decade before.
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In 1913, the California Alien Land Law made it illegal for immigrants from Japan and other parts of Asia to lease land or other properties, incarcerating and confiscating land from those who did.
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Related: Incarcerating the Mentally Ill Makes Us All Less Safe Significant changes need to be, and can be, implemented to assist in providing better treatment for those who suffer from serious mental illness.
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The House bill allows for a gradual, three year phase out of the practice of incarcerating status offenders and NCJFCJ has offered to provide technical assistance to states to help them implement this reform.
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Some 87 percent of voters would like governments at the state and federal levels to shift some of the money spent incarcerating nonviolent offenders toward alternative programs, like electronic monitoring, community service or probation.
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From ballot initiatives to local elections to the state and federal races, the 2018 midterm elections will give voters an opportunity to define the system charged with arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating people in America.
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But it's difficult to see how incarcerating teenagers for the crime of turning 18 protects them more than, say, releasing them to a willing sponsor who has cleared a basic but thorough background check.
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The government in Berlin has been critical of Mr. Erdogan, who has steadily expanded his powers since a failed coup in July, incarcerating or firing tens of thousands of people regarded as political opponents.
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America is the most incarcerating country on the planet, and one consequence of that is the presence of fines and fees that are layered on top of people who are convicted of a crime.
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The annual costs of incarcerating criminal aliens, and for providing federal reimbursement to smaller governments for some of those costs fell 9 percent from fiscal 2010 through 2015 — to $1.42 billion from $1.56 billion.
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By incarcerating small-time users, we have broken up families, greatly increased the likelihood that spouses and children will fall into the social services safety net, and set up a generation of children for failure.
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While even low-level dealers should and can be held accountable, incarcerating them for decades at a time is not the most effective means of interrupting the illicit drug trade and deterring future drug crimes.
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In 2014, Secretary Johnson decided that 'aggressive deterrence' was the only way to deal with the crisis: incarcerating asylum seekers to prevent the perception that America might serve as a refuge for those being persecuted.
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We addressed issues like the police state inflicting harm in underdeveloped communities, the for-profit prison system and its benefiting from incarcerating immigrants, as well as subjects like xenophobia and the destruction of the environment.
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Mistrett is CEO of the Campaign For Youth Justice, a national initiative focused entirely on ending the practice of prosecuting, sentencing, and incarcerating youth under the age of 18 in the adult criminal justice system.
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" Co-chair of the organization Carl Takei's grandmother was interned while her husband fought in Europe for the United States, which he said "speaks to the senselessness of rounding up and incarcerating an entire community.
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But after an unexpected surge in families crossing the border, officials began to suggest that incarcerating the migrants for long periods of time could be an effective way to discourage others from following behind them.
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I can put two "Caution: Wet Floor" signs face down at the top of a set of stairs where White House employees might slip and slide down into a delegation from the Organization for Incarcerating Flag Burners.
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That being said, I see no contradiction in cheering on Mohamed Salah's Egypt as its attack bears down on the goal and criticizing Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's Egypt for incarcerating Alaa Abd El Fattah, an activist and writer.
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Trump shows no appetite for the criminal justice reforms — meant to reduce the time and money the government spends incarcerating non-violent offenders, particularly when it comes to drug offenses — that the Kochs have increasingly championed in recent years.
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Housing and poverty advocates have long said it might be cheaper for states to pay for housing in lieu of simply incarcerating the homeless or seeing them repeatedly land in emergency rooms, another place where the poor seek shelter.
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We will also see change when, as the Movement for Black Lives advocates, communities control the laws, policies and institutions impacting them -- and when this nation invests in education, health and safety rather than criminalizing, incarcerating and killing black people.
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But the prison-industrial complex that benefits mainly from incarcerating members of marginalized groups is still definitely a thing that exists and does harm on a daily basis, so it's not as though making light of it is an immediate solution.
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Cedar Hawk Songmaker, the 26-year-old, pregnant adopted Ojibwe daughter of white liberal Minnesotans, must outsmart a government hellbent on incarcerating all pregnant women after evolution stops working in this dystopian thriller by one of our great American novelists.
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Still, the Obama administration, concerned not only about the U.S. attorneys scandal but also about irregularities in the Bush administration's request for legal opinions about incarcerating and interrogating terrorism suspects, imposed new restrictions in an expanded 2009 memo from Holder.
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"In a time of worsening business environments, incarcerating businessmen for a long time does tremendous damage not only to their companies but also to the national economy," said Kim Kyong-man, an executive at the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business.
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"When you're incarcerating so many people who have a history of trauma and PTSD, you're creating circumstances that are just right for all kinds of terrible things to happen," says Beth Schwartzapfel, staff writer from The Marshall Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan prison watchdog group.
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According to Matt Brooks, the president and C.E.O. of the Indiana Council of Community Mental Health Centers, the state's drug problem is the result of a history of incarcerating addicts rather than treating them, and also of a lack of coverage for rehabilitation under Medicaid.
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But the crown prince badly tarnished his image as an economic reformer when he ordered the arrests last fall of about 200 wealthy businessmen and officials, incarcerating them in a Ritz-Carlton Hotel and forcing many to surrender assets in exchange for their freedom.
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But while Mr. Xi's government promises the world a new Silk Road through Muslim Central Asia and the Middle East, the Xinjiang authorities attempt to contain a purported "Uighur problem" by incarcerating many good citizens and spying from every street corner and mobile phone.
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"The U.S. is really missing the opportunity to be a leader, to take a minimum symbolic action against a country that is incarcerating millions of people for ethnic reprogramming," said James A. Millward, a professor at Georgetown University and an expert on the Xinjiang region.
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And Sessions recently rescinded an Obama-era memo to judges discouraging them from incarcerating people for not being able to pay fines and fees, and announced he would give US attorneys discretion on prosecuting marijuana cases in states where the drug had been legalized.
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"The Justice Department's expected shift to prosecuting and incarcerating more offenders, including low-level and drug offenders, is an ineffective way to protect public safety," Brett Tolman, a U.S. Attorney for Utah under President George W. Bush, said in a statement anticipating the policy change.
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It's hard to know how often this really happens, but it seems much more plausible if the justice system is incarcerating people for lengthy periods of time, tarnishing their social networks outside of prison and leaving them only with the networks they build in prison.
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Their passage came on World Refugee Day, five days after Mr. Orban spoke by telephone with President Trump, who came under intense criticism in the United States for his policy of separating migrant children from their parents, and incarcerating them, after they cross the southern American border.
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Marino also once argued for incarcerating drug users, even those not involved in drug dealing, in a "hospital-slash-prison": One treatment option I have advocated for years would be placing non-dealer, nonviolent drug abusers in a secured hospital-type setting under the constant care of health professionals.
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The Marijuana Justice Act would also provide federal funds as an incentive to states where marijuana is still illegal, states with a record of disproportionately arresting or incarcerating low-income folks and people of color for weed-related offenses, as a way of encouraging them to change their laws.
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the policy of incarcerating people who crossed into the country illegally, knowing full well it would mean they would be separated from their children, many of whom are under 10 years old, with no clear plan as to when they might be re-united.
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"At some point, Mr. Flick is going to age out of his capacity to engage in this conduct, and incarcerating him beyond the time that he ages out doesn't seem to me to make good sense," Crowley said at the sentencing hearing, according to court documents obtained by CNN affiliate WGME.
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Biden's plan is quite long and detailed, but it effectively breaks down a response to the opioid crisis into five categories: boosting treatment, combating overprescription, holding drug companies accountable, reducing the flow of illicit drugs from other countries, and reforming the criminal justice system to stop incarcerating people for drug use.
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The protections are common sense and include not incarcerating children who have run away from home, broken curfew, or other status offenses; keeping youth out of adult facilities and separated from adult inmates; and ensuring children in the justice system are not treated differently based on their race or ethnicity.
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"[It's] being reinvented in the modern age by way of multinational corporations taking occupied native lands to extract resources and the profiting off of incarcerating blacks and Latinos via racist campaigns such as the 'War on Drugs,' the FBI's sabotage of the Black Panthers, and any other attempt at black unity," Braxton explains.
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In addition to ending the practice of incarcerating some youths in adult prisons, she would allow juveniles sentenced to more than 20 years to petition for reduced sentences after 10 years and encourage states to replace much juvenile incarceration with community-based programs that allow offenders to repair the harm they have done.
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I mean here in Kentucky we had Gynnya McMillen who died while at the Lincoln Village Detention Center back in January, and for the past five months activists have been asking the governor to shut down the detention facility and asking the legislature to really look at what can we do as alternatives to incarcerating our young people.
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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.
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Most recently, the increase in detention has been due to an uptick in incarcerating asylum seekers: In fiscal year 2010, 15,683 asylum seekers (20143 percent of all asylum seekers in court proceedings) were detained, which jumped to 44,228 (77 percent of asylum seekers in court proceedings) in fiscal year 2014, according to the Human Rights First report.
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In the wake of Guzman's sentencing, I saw an article suggesting that Mexico would be better off if the US court had released Guzman instead of incarcerating him for life, arguing that he was somehow less brutal than the current crop of cartel leaders in Mexico and that he could calm the violence afflicting his country if only he could walk free.
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Said Foxx, "Some of my opponents who use the rhetoric of the Willie Horton era, of fearmongering and law and order, do that dismissing the reality of the work we do every day ... and are actually quite comfortable with the fact that we were incarcerating black and brown people at disproportionate rates for things that were not in the interest of public safety."
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