California has one of the highest incarceration rates of all the 50 states.

9 Gelb, Karen Women in Prison Why is the Rate of Incarceration Increasing?

He she has been sentenced to more than five years' incarceration for a crime

If they leave their family environment they risk criminal charges, incarceration and stigmatization from the community.

An increasing number of women were also being held in remand, heightening incarceration statistics still further.

Funds for education, for training and for rehabilitation are declining, so this despairing cycle of incarceration continues.

In a developed country such as Canada, incarceration costs approximately 50,000 United States dollars per inmate each year.

Issues raised concerned Indigenous land rights, incarceration levels, and the plight of children removed from their parents the Stolen Generations'.

In 2003, the National Centre for Crime Statistics of the Australian Bureau of Statistics released a report entitled Women in Prison Why is the Rate of Incarceration Increasing? The report tested five hypotheses to explain the rising rate of female incarceration in Australia against statistics spanning a seven year period.

The Special Secretariat on Policies for Women, the Special Secretariat on Human Rights and the Ministry of Health prepared and publicized Inter Ministerial Administrative Directive No. 1.426 2004 containing Guidelines for the establishment and implementation of health care for adolescents in conflict with the law, in regime of incarceration or temporary incarceration.

Paraguay had one of the highest incarceration rates for women and she wondered how many women had been imprisoned for illegal abortions.

The Forum recommends that Member States investigate the alarming rate of incarceration of indigenous women and communicate their findings to the Permanent Forum.

(g) To investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the mistreatment, arbitrary arrest and incarceration of human rights defenders and members of the political opposition

Thailand believes that alternative measures, which include restorative justice, are necessary not only to decrease caseload but also to avoid the possible adverse effects of incarceration.

It notes that the author's incarceration in 1981 82 predates the entry into force of the Optional Protocol for the State party on 27 September 1984.

All NLD offices remain shut, with the exception of its headquarters in Yangon, and political party members are consistently liable to politically motivated prosecution and incarceration.

3.1 The author claims that the denial of an adequate remuneration for the work performed during his incarceration amounts to a violation of article 26 of the Covenant.

26. We commit ourselves to according priority to containing the growth and overcrowding of pre trial and detention prison populations, as appropriate, by promoting safe and effective alternatives to incarceration.

I find it interesting that, for every one dollar we spend, however, on early childhood education, like Head Start, we save 17 dollars on stuff like incarceration in the future.

are punishable by a fine equal to 1000 1500 times the minimum monthly wage or restriction of freedom for up to three years or incarceration for two to five years.

It confirmed the disturbing trend affecting Australian women, noting a 60 per cent increase in incarceration rates between 1995 and 2002, compared to a 14.8 per cent rise for men.

are punishable by incarceration for two to five years, with or without the loss of the right to hold certain posts or engage in certain activities for up to three years.

Offence attempted homicide with the use of a weapon. Authority Special court of Buga, Valle. Status defendant. Date of arrest 10 October 1999. Date of incarceration in Pereira prison 4 April 2002.

The Court concluded that in this case, the complainant could not prove that the reason for his dismissal was the fact of his conviction and not his inability to work due to his incarceration.

No, the incarceration of Liu is targeted at those who value democracy, both within China and abroad. It is an effort to criminalize democratic ideas and force people to choose between them and business with China.

Particularly troubling is France's protracted incarceration of pre trial suspects. In a country that regards itself as a civilized counterweight to belligerent American hegemony, nearly half of all prisoners have never been convicted of a crime.

Our municipalities, rural and urban, play the operational course of infrastructure things like waste disposal, energy demand, as well as social costs of unemployment, drop out rates, incarceration rates and the impacts of various public health costs.

If the offence is a repeat offence or is committed by an organized crime group, it is punishable by a fine that is 1000 2000 times the minimum monthly wage or incarceration for two to five years.

Today's performers, like Rhodessa Jones, work in women's prisons, helping women prisoners articulate the pain of incarceration, while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs to find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more.

The Forum on Indigenous Issues is deeply concerned that particular problems and discrimination are faced by indigenous children and youth, including in the areas of education, health, culture, extreme poverty, mortality, sexual exploitation, militarization, displacement, incarceration, labour and others.

It disputes the author's argument that the present circumstances of his incarceration are irrelevant to his complaint, which arises from his individual experience on particular days, with particular individuals, and not from an express legislative provision of general application.

(g) To investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the mistreatment, arbitrary arrest and incarceration of civic and political activists leading up to and following the presidential election of March 2006 and to release immediately and unconditionally all political prisoners

A highlight of the independent expert's mission to Somaliland was the negotiated release of Zamzam Ahmed Dualeh of Puntland , a 17 year old girl who had been sentenced to five years' incarceration for espionage and for lying about her clan identity.

The Panel agrees that the claimant did not provide any evidence in support of his personal losses, such as court documents noting the date of or basis for the alleged incarceration, and therefore recommends no award of compensation for these losses.

Finally, the Bill foresees a change to article 313 of the Penal Process Code, to add a new basis for preventive incarceration, when the crime involves domestic or family violence against a woman, irrespective of the penalty that is applied.

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is deeply concerned that particular problems and discrimination are faced by indigenous children and youth, including in the areas of education, health, culture, extreme poverty, mortality, sexual exploitation, militarization, displacement, incarceration, labour and others.

Most institutions that are invested in an individualistic orientation hold up the person as sinner, culpable, afflicted, insane, or irrational. Programs of change follow either a medical model of rehabilitation, therapy, reeducation, and treatment, or a punitive model of incarceration and execution.

Therefore, the meaning of alternative measures entirely covers restorative justice policy, procedures and programmes and the words alternative measures to prosecution, including should be added after further developing and the words and avoid the possible adverse effects of incarceration after the caseload of criminal courts .

In particular, he has not provided any information on the type of work that he performed during his incarceration and whether it was of a kind that is available in the labour market, nor about the remuneration paid for comparable work in the labour market.

And America s incarceration rate is 10 times Sweden s rate of 70 people per 100,000. The US is richer on average than Sweden, but the income gap between America s richest and poorest is vastly wider than it is in Sweden, and the US treats its poor punitively, rather than supportively.

Although the author's life with his family was interrupted for a considerable period of time because of his incarceration and subsequent custody on remand pending deportation, he received regular visits from his wife during that period and was able to visit his children several times during prison leave.

The claimant alleges losses in the amount of USD 155,990,800 for personal property, lost wages and losses in respect of personal injuries allegedly sustained as a result of his arrest in Kuwait by Iraqi soldiers and his subsequent incarceration in an Iraqi prison from September 1990 to October 1997.

The US now imprisons around 2.3 million people at any time, a substantial number of whom are poor people who are arrested for selling drugs to support their own addiction. As a result, the US has ended up with the world s highest incarceration rate a shocking 743 people per 100,000!

Under article 239 of the Criminal Code, setting up or maintaining houses of prostitution, as well as conspiring to engage in prostitution for mercenary purposes and trafficking in prostitutes, is punishable by a fine that is 1000 2000 times the minimum monthly wage or by incarceration for up to five years.

And over the past 20 years, we've spent record amounts of philanthropic dollars on social problems, yet educational outcomes, malnutrition, incarceration, obesity, diabetes, income disparity, they've all gone up with some exceptions in particular, infant mortality among people in poverty but it's a great world that we're bringing them into as well.