Sentences with phrase «americans is in jail»

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are in jail as a result of simple drug possession charges.

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When an American teenager vandalized 18 cars in Singapore, he was sentenced to jail and caning.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Browder said that to protect the vast amounts of money, some of which he said was in American banks, Putin launched a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russian officials whom the U.S. held responsible for the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail after being retained by Browder to investigate corruption.

In 2000, Mr. Strankman was an unsuccessful candidate in the Canadian Wheat Board elections and in 2002 he was fined $ 7,500 and faced 180 days in jail after taking 756 bushels of wheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmersIn 2000, Mr. Strankman was an unsuccessful candidate in the Canadian Wheat Board elections and in 2002 he was fined $ 7,500 and faced 180 days in jail after taking 756 bushels of wheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmersin the Canadian Wheat Board elections and in 2002 he was fined $ 7,500 and faced 180 days in jail after taking 756 bushels of wheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmersin 2002 he was fined $ 7,500 and faced 180 days in jail after taking 756 bushels of wheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmersin jail after taking 756 bushels of wheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmersin jail with four other rebel farmers).

Approximately 12 % -13 % of the American population is African - American, but they make up 40.1 % of the almost 2.1 million male inmates in jail or prison

Nearly one in three African American males aged 20 — 29 are under some form of criminal justice supervision whether imprisoned, jailed, on parole or probation.

I was a victim of it over the weekend and arrested because I witnessed a Paralized African American man being beat up by cops and recorded it and then I got thrown in jail falsely and giving charges that wasn't true and had witnesses there to verify.

Twenty - year - old María Mirtala López told an American priest who visited her in jail that she was hung by her breasts in an attempt to extract a confession.

I was amazed and moved when several of the men responded positively to this material, since I was all along well aware that — to the extent that some of them had Christian backgrounds or had even become Christians in jail — such traditions of silence within Christianity would be far removed from the affective and sometimes noisy spirituality of much African - American Protestantism.

Jesse Jackson, director of Operation PUSH, estimates that of the approximately 400,000 persons being held in American jails and prisons, 300,000 are either black or brown.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the American author referred to a friend of his who had «drunkenly» looked for images of 16 - year - old girls and was later jailed.

Both have been arrested and served six - month jail sentences for acts of civil disobedience in protesting the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)-- a military school in Fort Benning, Georgia, that has trained Latin Americans in tactics of war, terrorism and torture.

And six months after the Democratic Party took control of both houses of Congress, the prison at Guantánamo Bay was still open and conducting drumhead courts martial of the prisoners held there; the CIA was still using «enhanced interrogation techniques» on prisoners in foreign jails; illegal intrusions into the privacy of American citizens continued unabated; and, more than fifty years after the CIA was founded, it continues to operate under, at best, the most perfunctory congressional oversight.

An American woman is held in a Haitian jail for more than 100 days after allegedly attempting to traffic children out of the country in the wake of a devastating earthquake.

The Anglo - American idea... means that the party who does not abide by certain specific decrees emanating from a judicial body is a contumacious person and may, as a rule, be held in contempt of court, fined and jailed... Now, this very concept of contempt simply does not belong to the world of ideas of a Latin lawyer.

A clergyman of the American Lutheran Church has been ordered confined in jail for contempt of court because he refused to answer questions before a grand jury investigating the «occupation» of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for two months last year by militant Indians.

Meanwhile, the outspoken patron has dismissed a case ordering him to pay $ 15m to Instituto, insisting that the South American agents involved in the deal «should be in jail» as FIFA have already moved to get rid of them owning the rights to players.

The US government has long been in the habit of jailing american citizens indefinitely without trial if it suits them particularly.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has for the first time acknowledged the contours of his unusual effort in representing Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader jailed in Manhattan on charges of conspiring to violate the American sanctions on Iran: In a newly unsealed court affidavit, he makes it clear that he is trying to turn a criminal case into a matter of international diplomacin representing Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader jailed in Manhattan on charges of conspiring to violate the American sanctions on Iran: In a newly unsealed court affidavit, he makes it clear that he is trying to turn a criminal case into a matter of international diplomacin Manhattan on charges of conspiring to violate the American sanctions on Iran: In a newly unsealed court affidavit, he makes it clear that he is trying to turn a criminal case into a matter of international diplomacIn a newly unsealed court affidavit, he makes it clear that he is trying to turn a criminal case into a matter of international diplomacy.

I am quite confident that many Americans will soon come to see that Trump deserves to die in jail.

Proposals to build up to three American style jails each housing 2500 prisoners were announced in December 2007 and provoked an outcry.

The American Civil Liberties Union says the federal government is illegally detaining immigrant teens from Suffolk County, N.Y., in «jail - like facilities,» based on unsubstantiated claims that they are members of transnational street gangs.

Jimmy Meng — a former assemblyman who became the first Asian - American to be elected to the New York state Legislature — was sentenced today to one month in jail and fined $ 30,000 for masterminding a bribery scheme.

Ferragamo - loving former labor boss Norman Seabrook — busted by federal authorities this month in a massive kickback scheme — boasted that he was given an American Express black card by the law firm hired to represent his jail - guard union, sources told the NY Post.

In 2004, an American man was jailed for conducting a Russian brides scam and defrauding more than 250 victims to the total amount of US$ 737,521.

In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcIn the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcin the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etcin getting housing, jobs, etc..

After the announcement of a comet hitting Earth, British bank manager Jamie Winton (Mathew Baynton) seeks his wife, who disappeared seven year ago and biological mother; Rhonda MacNeil (Jenna Fischer) meets white supremacist Leanne (Megan Mullally) in jail; Rhonda's brother, Scotty (Kyle Soller), and his boyfriend, U.S. General Arnold Gaines (Paterson Joseph) try to find a way to stop the comet and Father Jude Sutton (Rob Lowe) with Sister Celine (Gaia Scodellaro), are trying to locate the second coming of the Messiah before the apocalypse in this British - American dramedy.

The title is borrowed from a folk - song popular in American jails, relating to a superstition that prisoners who felt the lights of the eponymous passing train on their faces would soon be released, would gain liberation and thus salvation.

Its host, Derek Waters, gets a funny genius sloshed and they relay a part of American history that they're deeply, madly obsessed with (like the great escape of early LSD advocate Timothy Leary, jailed for being smart in a dumb society).

Tokyo Drift has a very contrived storyline where American high - school hot - dog Sean Boswell has been gotten himself in trouble with the law for the third time for reckless driving while engaged in drag racing, and in order to avoid certain jail time, he consents to leave the country to live with his estranged, career - Navy father (Brian Goodman, Annapolis), currently residing in Tokyo, Japan.

Days before Washington hosted the «Million Man March» and the National African - American Leadership Summit last fall, the U.S. Department of Justice released a report showing that one - third of the African - American men between the ages of 20 and 29 are in the criminal - justice system, either in prison, in jail awaiting trial, on probation, or paroled.

As Michelle Alexander noted in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, «More African Americans are under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslved in 1850.»

In «The Unknown Soldier,» one of the stories in Molly Antopol's The UnAmericans, a young actor, Alexi Liebman, has to serve jail time because he comes under suspicion that he is a member of the American Communist partIn «The Unknown Soldier,» one of the stories in Molly Antopol's The UnAmericans, a young actor, Alexi Liebman, has to serve jail time because he comes under suspicion that he is a member of the American Communist partin Molly Antopol's The UnAmericans, a young actor, Alexi Liebman, has to serve jail time because he comes under suspicion that he is a member of the American Communist party.

Historically notable movie clips are also included, such as a 1919 clip of African - American employees playing a game of baseball, and the interview of Marion King in the hospital following her beating by police while pregnant for visiting protesters in jail.

While about 10 % of the 3.9 million dogs in American shelters are relinquished because of behavioral issues, about 70 - 80 % of the some 50,000 incarcerated persons return to Georgia jails within three years of release.

An American woman traveling solo in the U.A.E. was thrown in jail for, she says, turning down help from two men who approached her at the airport... Read More

Beyond major art centers, important presentations are on view, including Senga Nengudi at the University of Washington, Seattle; Fred Wilson at Oberlin College in Ohio; Mark Bradford «s «Receive Calls On Your Cell Phone From Jail» in St. Louis, Mo.; and the group show «30 Americans» in Cincinnati, Ohio.

I saw it at the California African American Museum last winter in After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, a show about the ripples of the year a jailed Huey P. Newton said «we're hoping the master dies» and Joan Didion -LSB-.....]

Durant wrote, «We now know that one in 100 U.S. citizens are in jail and one in nine African American men are in prison... We know that innocent people have been executed and that there are many potentially innocent prisoners sitting on death row today.

I saw it at the California African American Museum last winter in After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, a show about the ripples of the year a jailed Huey P. Newton said «we're hoping the master dies» and Joan Didion experienced socio - politically induced «nausea and vertigo.»

The two discussed Adjaye's work since his controversial London Elektra House (2000), which almost landed the young architect in jail, to his grand project for the National Museum of African American History, the last building to be constructed -LSB-...]

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My compatriot David Suzuki, CC, OBC, was on PBS with Bill Moyers the other day and re-iterated for Americans his previously stated position in Canada that climate - denying politicians should be jailed:

Their white paper, «Preserving the Rule of Law in America's Jails and Prisons: The Case for Amending the Prison Litigation Reform Act,» was published in 2007 by the American Constitution Society.

They should be thrown in jail for talking senior Americans into this kind of horrid ripoff, but that won't happen.

Making more men marriageable is one of the goals of the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project, though apprenticeships and helping those in the military and in jail (hmm, I'd have to think long and hard about marrying someone who'd been in jail — wouldn't you?).