Sentences with phrase «crimes by prisoners»

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Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

According to a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that examined data from 30 US states between 2005 and 2010, two thirds of released prisoners were arrested for a new crime within three years, and more than a third were arrested after just six months.

Each prisoner is given the opportunity either to: betray the other by testifying that the other committed the crime, or to cooperate with the other by remaining silent.

At first, the prisoners thought he had been sent by the government — a spy in a clerical collar — to investigate their crimes.

The crimes committed by those prisoners are well - known, even outside of Israel.

Judy Clark, a lesbian who was convicted for her role in the 1981 Westchester County Brinks robbery, a headline - grabbing crime staged by the radical Weather Underground that led to the murder of two police officers, has been a model prisoner, according to widespread accounts.

«With payment by results, your money goes into what works - prisoners going straight, crime coming down, our country getting safer.

The survey of 1200 people, conducted by independent researchers Mass1 for Unite, exposes deep unease over plans to spend millions of pounds on privatising core police services, including 999 call handling, prisoner transportation, crime investigation and forensics with:

There has been a significant increase on the number of tagged prisoners going on to commit crimes, an investigation by a Conservative MP has found.

Mr Shapps found an average of seven crimes a day were being committed by prisoners released early under the HDC scheme.

«Ghana does it but there are some categories of prisoners who by the nature of crimes committed lose the right to vote.

Some sites do include the crime the inmate committed, but not «Hot Prison Pals», a dating site for prisoners run by Sam Wagner.

Now showing in theaters is Prisoners, a chilling new crime drama featuring a Black List screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, directed by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.

Official Premise: In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam.

While «Prisoners» satisfies as completely as any dense, literary crime novel, it's elevated by top notch performances from across the entire ensemble cast, and a richness of material, aided by some first rate filmmaking (Roger Deakins» cinematography in particular does much in adding to the damp gloom of the movie).

Her arrival practically coincides with the arrival of political prisoner Ramon Esperanza (Nero, Django Strikes Again), a South American despot who is being escorted in by the military to stand trial for his drug smuggling crimes.

Set within a bleak vision of the future dominated by a crime syndicate known only as the Boryokudan, players take control of Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin with a shady past, and Delta - Six aka Charlie, a prisoner in a secret facility who has had his memory wiped clean.

We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.

If a federal bill reduces a sentence for a crime, can a prisoner get relief at the state level, possibly by stating the original sentence was cruel and unusual punishment?