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Other governments are trying it with success, is it not time for us as well, "Since a new penal law about juvenile deviance was enforced in 1988, decarceration and significant decreases in daily counts of youth incarceration have been notable trends."
A hypothetical Juvenile case: Rehabilitative Justice at work 2009
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The decarceration of 60,000 eligible offenders is a possible first step to address that problem.
What’s the Matter With California? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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This book also underlines an important point which decarceration projects reducing the influence of the prison-industrial complex to de-emphasize incarceration as a "solution" to crime tend to obscure: that reforming incarceration practices to demand that prisoners take full responsibility for their own violence needs to be part of a decarceration agenda.
Archive 2009-08-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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This book also underlines an important point which decarceration projects reducing the influence of the prison-industrial complex to de-emphasize incarceration as a "solution" to crime tend to obscure: that reforming incarceration practices to demand that prisoners take full responsibility for their own violence needs to be part of a decarceration agenda.
Paying The Prison Bill: A Review Of Sunny Schwartz, Dreams of the Monster Factory Tenured Radical 2009
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Not decarceration, or an end to the billions spent every year testing students at all levels in California.
"Sincerely Yours, The Department Of Miserable Bastards" Tenured Radical 2009
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Not decarceration, or an end to the billions spent every year testing students at all levels in California.
Archive 2009-07-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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She thinks that decarceration, probation, and above all job training, affordable housing, health care, and other measures to foster re-integration into society is the best way to deal with those individuals.
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