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  Gendercide Watch: Incarceration and the Death Penalty
Incarceration and capital punishment are among the most gender-selective of all repressive institutions.
In most countries of the world, the proportion of those incarcerated and executed is at least 95 percent male, often higher.
The process of arrest and incarceration of people who had, for the most part, served the revolution at the risk of their lives was nothing short of Kafkaesque.
www.gendercide.org /case_imprisonment.html   (4154 words)

  
 Incarceration
Incarceration is an eventual outcome of a crime and the questions "what is crime" and "why the crime" were asked since the ancient times.
The predictor variables, explaining about 69% of variance in the international incarceration rates, were the index of the unequal distribution of wealth (the explanation favored by liberals) and the index of the family disintegration (the explanation favored by conservatives).
Since the mid-1970's, the average length of incarceration steadily increased and the legislatures continued to reduce discretion in both the sentencing process and the determination of when the conditions of a sentence have been satisfied.
www.visualstatistics.net /East-West/Incarceration/Incarceration.htm   (2102 words)

  
 US notches world's highest incarceration rate | csmonitor.com
That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world.
Nor does the impact of incarceration end with the sentence.
New drug policies have especially affected incarceration rates for women, which have increased at nearly double the rate for men since 1980.
www.csmonitor.com /2003/0818/p02s01-usju.html   (924 words)

  
 The Sentencing Project - Publications : Incarceration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
On December 1, Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel LLP submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the New York State Court of Appeals on behalf of The Sentencing Project and seventeen additional organizations to challenge surcharges imposed on New York State prisoners' telephone calls.
Fact sheet on the growing number of incarcerated persons in federal and state prisons with details on race, gender, substance abuse and crime offenses.
Provides an overview of the factors influencing the record rise in incarceration in the U.S. and data on the ten nations with the highest incarceration rates.
www.sentencingproject.org /pubs_06.cfm   (1235 words)

  
  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Inquisition
It was known as immuration (from the Latin murus, a wall), or incarceration, and was inflicted for a definite time or for life.
Immuration for life was the lot of those who had failed to profit by the aforesaid term of grace, or had perhaps recanted only from fear of death, or had once before abjured heresy.
They were to be kept in custody; "in a place where one grew wise" (sophronisterion), as the place of incarceration was euphemistically called; they should be relegated thither for five years, and during this time listen to religious instruction every day.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08026a.htm   (12683 words)

  
 Treatment vs. Incarceration | Jointogether.org
Need alcohol or drug help for yourself or someone else?
Home > Key Issues > Treatment vs. Incarceration
Many crimes are rooted in alcohol and drug addictions.
www.jointogether.org /keyissues/incarceration   (154 words)

  
 SAGE Publications - Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities
The two-volume Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and contemporary framework.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, a fact that has caused lawmakers, advocates, and legal professionals to rethink punishment policies as well as develop new policies on prisoner education and rehabilitation.
Issues of race, gender, and class are fully integrated throughout in order to demonstrate the complexity of the implementation and intended results of incarceration.
www.sagepub.com /book.aspx?pid=10230   (180 words)

  
 'Real' incarceration sought for developer - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
'Real' incarceration sought for developer - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
Federal prosecutors are seeking "real and meaningful incarceration" for prominent D.C. developer Douglas Jemal after his conviction last year on wire-fraud charges, newly filed court records show.
But a D.C. Council member, a former council member and several top business leaders have written letters to the judge seeking leniency for Douglas Development Corp.'s Jemal, whose attorneys are asking for probation.
www.washtimes.com /metro/20070228-104951-6486r.htm   (627 words)

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