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UK Prisons Full: Judges Ordered to Delay Sentencing, Criminals May Be Released Early
The judge emphasized that their "greatest concern" revolved around defendants convicted of rape being allowed to remain on bail rather than being swiftly jailed.
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Fight Against Drugs Fills US Federal Prisons: Study
More than half of US federal prison inmates are in jail for drug trafficking, with the harshest sentences going to crack dealers, most of them African Americans, a study found Tuesday.
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Barack Obama, Police Chiefs to Join in Call to Cut Incarcerations
President Barack Obama meets with top police officials and legal experts Thursday in a push to end "unnecessary incarceration" in a country where overpopulated prisons house 2.2 million people.
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US Police Chiefs Call for Reducing Prison Population
A group of 130 police chiefs, prosecutors and sheriffs from around the United States on Wednesday called for reforms that would to reduce the US prison population.
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UK Prisons Full: Judges Ordered to Delay Sentencing, Criminals May Be Released Early
The judge emphasized that their "greatest concern" revolved around defendants convicted of rape being allowed to remain on bail rather than being swiftly jailed.
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Fight Against Drugs Fills US Federal Prisons: Study
More than half of US federal prison inmates are in jail for drug trafficking, with the harshest sentences going to crack dealers, most of them African Americans, a study found Tuesday.
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Barack Obama, Police Chiefs to Join in Call to Cut Incarcerations
President Barack Obama meets with top police officials and legal experts Thursday in a push to end "unnecessary incarceration" in a country where overpopulated prisons house 2.2 million people.
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US Police Chiefs Call for Reducing Prison Population
A group of 130 police chiefs, prosecutors and sheriffs from around the United States on Wednesday called for reforms that would to reduce the US prison population.
