Sentences with phrase «decades in prison before»

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She was warden at a female correctional facility before being appointed to run an all - male prison in Marion, Ohio, that was in such poor condition that it had been under federal court monitoring for decades.

NEW YORK — Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful New York politicians for two decades, will stand powerless Tuesday afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom before a judge who could effectively send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Attorney Donald Specter spent more than three decades working to protect the rights of incarcerated people before he finally saw a prison he believed in.

What followed was all too typical of how things have worked for decades in Syria: the young woman was held incommunicado for nine months before her family could see her, then, in February 2011 in a closed - door process, convicted of spying and sentenced to five years in prison.

The number of Indigenous deaths in custody in the decade since the Royal Commission has been 147, compared to 99 in the decade before the Royal Commission, climbing from 12 per cent of all prison deaths to 17 per cent in a decade.