Sentences with phrase «father is in jail»

Eleanor «Groovy» Robinson loves cooking, but things start to go wrong the year she turns eleven - suddenly, her father is in jail, her best friend's long - absent mother reappears, and the swallows arrive early.

The film centers on Alison Miller, whose father is in jail, while her mother had left when she was young.

None of Lucy's five children — one girl and four boys — has chosen to tell their schoolfriends that their father is in jail.

The boy's father was in jail and had left Myls with his girlfriend.

«@katiecouric They would also mock me because of my home situation, when people found out that my father was in jail..»

Not exact matches

In an essay for Time earlier this year, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.

And that means that black women, who were our best voter according to the political people in this campaign, have watched their brothers and their parents, their fathers, and their sons go to jail and get convictions young and be forced into a cycle of poverty.

Shoplifting is a very big deal in China, as it should be (5 - 10 years in jail), but not to father LaVar.

Days after claiming credit for the release of three UCLA basketball players who were questioned over shoplifting in China, Donald Trump tweeted that he «should have left them in jail», owing to a lack of gratitude from one player's father.

In an essay for Time earlier this month, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.

Avoiding jail, the married father of one was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years.

The theory and practice of recovered memory were discredited in the late 1990s — not before thousands of fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, and teachers had been jailed, sued, or just estranged over recovered memories of pedophilic abuse.

It is her way of dealing with a sorrow begun in a loveless childhood (her father went to jail for fraud, adding to her sense of uncertainty).

The mother of two was jailed and sentenced to death in May for abandoning her Muslim faith, although she had never been a Muslim and was raised Christian by her mother when her father left the family.

Behind the walls of every prison and jail are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors — all persons made in the divine image who, like the rest of us, have distorted that image and who long for love, reconciliation and purpose.

He is, after all, the son of a man jailed for speaking out (Vivek's father, Yeshwant, a military pilot and general secretary of the National Pilots Association in India, was arrested for grounding a plane he felt was unsafe).

«At this point I think this would be fair: that he spend at least 40 years in jail,» says Richard Johnson, father of Kyle.

HE threw me across a conference room yelling I had no right then he tried to murder his father over us stopping him having a day off since 1985 the offer was just wait 210 more days and he would get his stinking vacation He did not have to hurt us because we stopped him again to let a younger couple have the two weeks for their honey moon He was so angry over that he had me and his father arraigned and jailed for two months for illegally acting as false agency in his name.

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

The father of the two girls said that he feels sorry for the duo that has been charged and jailed in connection with the incident.

Their father, disgraced ex-Assemblyman Jimmy Meng, was sentenced to a month in jail in March 2013 for his role in a bribery scheme.

A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).

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 film stars Dwayne Johnson as a father whose son is wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Unbeknownst to Tommy, Dion has to jump into the restaurant business as quickly as possible in order to square a debt with Patrick Woichik (a perfectly cast Michael Gladis), the son of a jailed mob boss who is operating the family business in his father's stead.

This time, the focus is on teenage Pio (Pio Amato), a minor character in the previous film, who becomes the man of the house after his father and older brother are both jailed for stealing electricity.

We also learn how Victor became Cyborg and the issues he has with his father; and all we learn about Barry is that he has no friends and his dad, Henry (Billy Crudup), is in jail after allegedly killing his wife.

The fact that his father was put in jail by the Commander has the fire - throwing Warren taking an immediate disliking to Will.

After a bank robbery goes bad and Emma turns on Joe, he ends up in jail, albeit with a shortened sentence courtesy his police superintendent father (Brendan Gleeson, and the best thing Live By Night has going for it is a tremendous cast where even small roles are played by top - shelf actors).

She's convinced herself that her absent father, who's spent some time in jail, will be coming back for her — even though she's left him several messages with no response.

The setup is simple enough: A father (Denzel Washington) gets a free pass from jail in order to convince his superstar son (Ray Allen) to go to a college so he can earn a shorter prison sentence.

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.

Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) now combines owning a rundown pub with a little gentle blackmail; Spud (Ewen Bremner) is still on the «scag» and failing as a father; and the terrifyingly violent Begbie (Robert Carlyle) is in jail.

The film spends maybe 5 minutes at most developing the family dynamic before Ford is called away to help bail his father Joe out of jail in Tokyo.

Well, it turns out that he wanted out of jail early in order to spend more time with Will (Tye Sheridan), his estranged 15 - year - old son who is suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, and who has been living with his own irascible father (Christopher Plummer) during his stretch in the stir.

Having lost his father and his girl (an underused Zoe Saldana) during a spell in jail, Russell is released to a whole new set of problems, all leading back to Woody Harrelson's resplendently repugnant drug kingpin Harlan DeGroat.

With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in jail, eleven - year - old Luz Castillo has been taken into the custody of the state.

Our Founding Fathers knew from the Old World that locking someone in jail was not an effective way to deal with their inability to repay debt.

Ryan's path to success was anything but ordinary — he grew up in an LA gang, lived with a meth addicted father, landed in jail numerous times, and dropped out of high school his freshman year, yet still managed to transform his life from that of a criminal to a professional.

The game opens in a dream of Marcus's where he's going back the jail at the start of the original game, then to the stairs where he lost his father.

Despite the protections in the Act for whistleblowers, one may ask if such people are really likely to be able to stay anonymous and thus safe, or should suffer very stiff penalties for choosing not to send their spouses and fathers of their children, and possibly main source of support, off to jail and not to make them unemployable for many years.

If the father does not pay the ordered child support then enforcement steps can be taken against him; examples being the suspension of his driver's license, the cancellation of his passport, and in extreme cases jail.

The father was detained in jail for 21 days before being released on bail; co-operation between him and the mother became strained after that point, and litigation increased significantly.

Another mother was jailed for sending a birthday card and a father jailed for waving at his children in care as they passed by in the street.Cases of child abuse or neglect should be dealt with by criminal courts where parents are presumed innocent of such offences unless proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

Young father sentences for nine months in jail: A young father who was convicted of five charges, two of them relating to the riots of November 16, 2006 serves a nine months imprisonment sentence starting today.

The father of singer Ella Henderson has been jailed after he fleeced people out of millions in dodgy get - rich - quick schemes.

Incarceration: Incarceration was assessed by maternal report of whether the child's father had spent time in prison or jail in the past 2 years, whether a current live - in partner spent most of the previous week in jail or prison, and whether she had been convicted of a crime during the past 2 years.

Propaganda — Children growing up without a father in the home are more than twice as likely to end up in jail.

She was unrepentant throughout, and continued the denigration and attempted further alienation of the father even when she was in jail.

Her father should have been put in jail and provided with supervised visitation.