Fewer criminals given jail terms
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The number of criminals jailed in England and Wales fell by 5% in 2006, according to the Ministry of Justice.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 3--All over California, there are more inmates than spaces for them in county jails and state prisons.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells for inmates.
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More than 1,000 prisoners are to be freed later ahead of schedule as part of a move to ease prison overcrowding.
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to help them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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Aborigines are 13 times more likely than other Australians to go to prison, with poverty, unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The national homicide rate dropped to its lowest level in more than 30 years last year, says Statistics Canada.
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Plans to give murderers lighter sentences if they plead guilty have been watered down.
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New measures offering some persistent offenders an alternative to prison are  unveiled by Cathy Jamieson.
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Many shopkeepers believe not enough is being done to combat criminals who target their businesses, a survey suggests.
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The number of convicts imprisoned with death sentences dropped in 2003, which is helping to provoke the third straight annual decline in the nation's death row population, according to data released Sunday.
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By Roselee Papandrea, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Feb. 7--There were 50 fewer inmates in the Onslow County Jail Tuesday night.   And if all goes as planned, the once-overcrowded jail may be close to the number it was meant to accommodate when it was expanded in 1988.
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SPENCER, Iowa -- The tiny jail here has housed many a typical small-town Iowa criminal since its bricks were laid in 1938 -- drunk drivers, drug abusers, the occasional thief. These days, though, Sheriff Randy Krukow walks the cell row and behind the bars sees a new kind of increasingly typical l...
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Nearly 80 percent of young people who are arrested use illegal drugs or alcohol, but fewer than 4 percent receive substance abuse treatment, says a new study.
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Most federal judges are imposing prison terms within sentencing guidelines even though the Supreme Court says they do not need to, according to an analysis presented Thursday to Congress.
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The nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported on Sunday.
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GALT, Calif.  - California's prisons are putting a  new emphasis on rehabilitation, but it may take years to reduce  the high level of repeat offenders, the state's top prison  official said on Wednesday.