Sentences with phrase «convicted prisoners»
The phrase "convicted prisoners" refers to people who have been found guilty of a crime by a court of law and are serving a sentence in prison. Full definition
Since 2001, IPNO has won the freedom or exoneration of 30 wrongfully convicted prisoners who served a total of over 656 years in Louisiana and Mississippi's prisons between them (These numbers continue to grow — check out our list of exonerees for the most recent information).
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Freeing / exonerating 30 wrongly convicted prisoners.
In the Steve Bochco - penned «Dead Men Don't Kill» (broadcast December 4, 1979), Georg Stanford Brown plays a wrongly - convicted prisoner on California's Death Row who rejects a last minute stay of execution in favor of ending his miserable life behind bars.
You play as either Leo or Vincent, two convicted prisoners who must work together to escape a maximum - security prison before hunting down the man who framed them and put them behind bars.
This model has proven viciously effective in the past with Israel trading 1027 convicted prisoners for the safe return of a single captured solider (Gilad Shalit) in 2011.
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has granted pardon to no fewer than 71 convicted prisoners in the prisons in the state.
Peter Selby, former Bishop to HM Prisons and now president of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards for Prisons stated: «Denying convicted prisoners the right to vote serves no purpose of deterrence or reform.
The Conservatives are set to unveil measures preventing convicted prisoners profiting from publishing memoirs about their own criminal activities.
Saranac Central went over their allotted amount in 2015 when the manhunt for two convicted prisoners at Dannemora shuttered operations.
They first tallied the costs of all crimes — which included everything from caring for victims to replacing stolen goods to housing convicted prisoners — and converted them into an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases.
The action begins with convicted prisoner Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), working a Mississippi chain gang when he learns that his estranged wife Penny (Holly Hunter) is fixing to marry another man.
The Parole Board does not have the independence from the executive that is required for its judicial role in determining whether or not convicted prisoners should be released on licence.
But Betty Anne Waters is still working for wrongfully convicted prisoners.
While watching «The Green Mile» I felt I could relate a lot of it to the Bible because of the evil vs, good, I felt the convicted prisoner, a supposed killer, to be so much like the Christ (the convicted prisoner I felt was also the main character, not Tom Hanks) I thought the evil guard to be so much like Satan and all unbelievers, who wished to cause as much pain as possible to the convicted prisoner: the Christ.
Tom Hanks, the only actor in the movie that I recognized, and supposedly the star of the movie, filled the role of God who believed in the innocence of the the convicted prisoner, but could do little about it, because of the choice of the evil unbelieving people.
Let a human rights organization or an international tribunal come and convict these prisoners and they'll all be freed on the basis that they are resisting (whether violently or peacefully) the occupation of their country.
Addressing the role played by (mis) information within systems of power, and their failures, Fullerton draws his controversial characters from mass media: famous journalists and radio broadcasters, spies and human intelligence gatherers, wrongfully convicted prisoners, figures of political scandals, icons of the media and the Internet... The stories behind these individuals illustrate ideological beliefs, collective rumours, and the failures of regulative systems.
Hence, the restriction was tantamount to `' a blunt instrument» which «indiscriminately stripped a significant category of prisoners of their Convention rights and it imposed a blanket and automatic restriction on all convicted prisoners irrespective of the length of their sentence, the nature or gravity of their offence or of their individual circumstances».
IPNO has won the freedom or exoneration of 30 wrongfully convicted prisoners.
Judges also have the power to recommend when sentencing that a convicted prisoner be deported after completion of the sentence.