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reconvict

VERB
  1. convict anew

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  • Napo, the probation union, says the £350m cost of imprisoning them would be better and more effectively spent on intensive community orders with a reconviction rate of 34%. Penal reform must not be gender neutral
  • As the church was trying to [reinvent] him," he said, mentioning the efforts of Pope John Paul II in the early 1990s to clear Galileo's reputation as a heretic, "[scholars] were trying to reconvict him. The Rebel Yell
  • By 2006, their three-year reconviction rate had dropped to 10%. How to Stop Urban Crime Without Jail Time
  • Yet the reconviction rates revealed by the Ministry of Justice show that everyone should be concerned about what happens to released inmates. Cost of re-offending is around £11bn - prison is a colossal failure
  • He appeared to impeach subtly every intelligence in the room for having had any preconviction about the prisoner's guilt. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Mickey and Harry (along with one of Haller's ex-wives, on the D. A.'s team) will work to reconvict a man they believe personifies "certain kinds of evil in the world that had to be contained, no matter the hardship. Death in L.A.; Southern Suspicion; Spenser Gets Artistic
  • Blunt is being advised about how to roll out the plans by Victim Support and the Restorative Justice Consortium, which wants 75,000 victims of robbery, violence and burglary each year to be offered meetings, arguing that this would cut reconviction rates by 27%. Prisons minister says criminals could cut jail sentences by saying 'sorry'
  • Despite all the money and effort, overall reconviction rates remain high. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was only because the army, as a dual sovereign was able to retry him after an acquittal that he was reconvicted.
  • For those serving sentences of less than 12 months, the reconviction rate rises to 61 per cent. The Sun
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