Sentences with phrase «after decades in prison»

It is, rather, to give juvenile offenders a sporting chance, perhaps after decades in prison, to make the case that they deserve to get out, he said...

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Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

That bishop meets the main character, Jean Valjean, after he's released from serving nearly two decades in prison.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

The federal government began contracting with private prisons in 1997, more than a decade after states started using them.

Two decades after he was sodomized by an NYPD officer, touching off one of the biggest police misconduct investigations in city history, Abner Louima is living a quiet but productive life in Miami, while the officer who attacked him, Justin Volpe, has eight years left on his federal prison sentence.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after a lobbyist made up lies to try to escape the decades in prison he could face after admitting to eight crimes.

A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who endured for decades as one of the most powerful figures in state government, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in November on multiple corruption charges.

New York, NY (AP / WBEN)- A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after an associate, disgraced ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, made up lies to try to escape the decades in prison he could face after admitting to eight crimes.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after a lobbyist made up lies to try to escape decades in prison for his crimes.

Prominent Democrats were on the defensive in both public episodes — one a legislative controversy, the other a trial in Hartford Superior Court — relating to the clean - election program established a decade ago by the Democrat - controlled General Assembly after a corruption scandal sent Republican Gov. John G. Rowland to federal prison.

NEW YORK — A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Prosecutors had asked Caproni to sentence Silver to well over a decade in prison while defense lawyers requested leniency, citing his age, health and good deeds including efforts to improve lives after the Sept. 11 attacks and Superstorm Sandy.

NEW YORK (AP)- A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

Duplass plays Chris, who in the film's opening moments is as a car passenger nervously anticipating returning to his rural hometown of Granite Falls, Washington, after two decades in prison.

The film begins in the present, when Gangster 55 (who's known only by that name), played by Malcolm McDowell, learns that Freddie Mays (David Thewlis) has been released from prison after three decades.

The framing narrative has Grace worn down after more than a decade in prison and perceptive to the way people judge her.

Haynes» first feature is a decade - spanning, genre - hopping black - and - white trilogy about a boy who shoots his father and flies into the clouds, a scientist who turns into a monster after isolating and then consuming the human sex drive, and two gay lovers in a French prison.

A decade after his dismissal, he's given the opportunity to produce The Tempest in a prison.

This week, an Illinois man who spent nearly two decades in prison for sexual assault was released after DNA evidence exonerated him.

It is very hard to be released from prison after decades spent struggling to survive wrongful incarceration only to encounter the very real struggle of re-entry into a society that offers very little in the way of rehabilitative or social services.

MAY 15, 2018: Today, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office moved to withdraw all charges against Dontia Patterson — after he served over a decade in prison for a crime he -LSB-...]

Even after a conviction is overturned, exonerees still have to readjust to life outside of prison — to find employment and housing, deal with a criminal record that often doesn't go away even after being declared innocent, and try to get their lives back on track after so many years — not an easy task for those who in many cases have spent decades locked up.

All the members of the Colorado pretend judge and grand jury crowd that have gone to trial after their April 2018 arrest have been sentenced to decades in prison.

A court has granted bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who spent the past two days in prison after he was convicted of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago.