Yet there is little public will to fund drug treatment for those in prison or jail.
Blacks comprise 12% of the American population, but represent nearly half of those in prison or jail.
If offenders serve less time inside, whether in prison or jail, it must mean they spend more time on the streets.
Now we need to focus on giving young people, especially young men in our cities, better options than apathy, or gangs, or jail.
But even today the level of violent crime in America is still about the same as in the mid-1980s, when 1m fewer people were in prison or jail.
Nearly 3, 000 farmers have been told to leave their properties, but so far only about 500 have left despite threats of fines or jail for ignoring the eviction order.
When that happens, customer relationships are often destroyed, sales revenue tumbles, jobs are lost, executives are fired or forced to resign, bankruptcy can occur, and it can even lead to indictments or jail time.
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When they do, investors are reminded that the people best suited to monitor their money are themselves and managers see that failures of duty, or outright crimes, lead to dismissal, loss of reputation, or jail.
Although the 12 jurors were at first divided on whether to recommend the death penalty or jail for life without parole, some of them seem to have been influenced by Mr Muhammad's calculating manner during his six-week trial.
Then he had a flash of genuine brilliance, scripted or otherwise, by pointing out that the Tory party was full of people who were "either in jail or had just come out of jail".
The big banks were seen as too big either to fail or to jail.
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All of those folks have served jail time or are still in jail now.
His lawyers said it was unclear whether he would be detained under house arrest, in policy custody, or in jail.
They used to be something you got when you went into the Army or to jail, but now they've gone mainstream.
Approximately half a million people are in prison or in jail for a drug offense today, compared to around 41, 000 in 1980.
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Those might include the military, if a person was in the armed forces, or even jail, where an inmate might have been treated for a dental condition.
Angry investors are still waiting, three years on, for stronger moves against the company--fines or even jail time for those who presumably made illegal profits from the scheme.
Without issue, the ripping process started and I sulked away to pour a cup of coffee and contemplate what I'd do on my vacation -- or in jail, depending on how this ripping process went.
That means it is a criminal offence to possess or sell the drugs, and the courts can fine and jail offenders or order some other form of community-based sentence.
Many of his co-conspirators have been convicted and are serving or have served jail sentences.
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In everyday life, when you do something reckless like that you get fired, or go to jail.
If Judge Samour sees it that way, Winter will be compelled to give names or go to jail.
Today we have 2.3 million prisoners in the U.S., with a new jail or prison opening every week.
The group had denied the espionage charges, which carry a maximum penalty of five years in jail or a hefty fine.
After that, she says, her only other option is jail or juvenile detention.
Throwing a prominent executive or two in jail would be effective, of course, and many critics have suggested that.
And, secondly, we live in an interdependent world in which we cannot possibly kill, jail or occupy all of our potential adversaries.
All the members of the group had denied the espionage charges, which carry a maximum penalty of five years in jail or a hefty fine.
Scott never went to jail or otherwise personally got in trouble.
Over two dozen reporters were served or threatened with jail sentences last year in at least four different federal jurisdictions for refusing to reveal confidential sources.
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