Sentences with phrase «federal prison»
A federal prison is a type of prison facility that is operated by the government of a country, specifically the federal government. It is used to house individuals who have been convicted of federal crimes, which are offenses that are against federal laws or involve federal agencies. Full definition
He is serving a 46 - month term in federal prison for beating a suspect and covering it up.
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Now he'll plead guilty to one count that could, but probably won't, land him in federal prison for three years.
Our attorneys fight hard to reduce or dismiss charges to keep our clients out of federal prison.
Most of the nursing jobs are available with federal prison system.
She would serve eight years in federal prison under the plea bargain.
Built in 1928, the prison is actually the first federal prison for women.
Both former judges are agreeing to serve 87 months in federal prison and to surrender their law licenses, among other terms.
- Focused on maintaining peace, security and safety within correction centers and federal prison systems.
Charles Kushner served two years in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2005 to making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering.
The Suffolk Police Department hasn't been immune to scandal in recent years: Former Chief of Department James Burke, a Bellone appointee, is serving a 46 - month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting a handcuffed suspect and conspiring to cover it up.
On Tuesday, the one - time political whiz kid who served time in federal prison on corruption charges before mounting a stunning comeback...
What we can effectively see and measure are changes in federal sentencing laws and federal prosecutorial practices, and these changes suggest a set of intricate stories help account for recent federal prison population changes.
And since that's Rivera's cause, too, she plainly doesn't care about his victims (not even the New Yorkers killed by his bombs), or the fact that he'd have won release from federal prison years ago — had he been willing to renounce violence.
Yesterday, the Law Memo blog posted a link to a 9th Circuit decision, Pollard v. GEO Group, holding — contrary to what other courts of appeals have ruled — that federal prison inmates may recover damages under the Bivens doctrine from employees of private corporations running those prisons pursuant to contracts with the Bureau of Prisons.
Based on the novels by Joe Lansdale, the six - part series stars James as Hap Collins, a working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War — Watch the trailer below!
Donovan is facing off against his predecessor, former Rep. Michael Grimm, who resigned in 2015 and then served federal prison time for tax evasion.
He's in federal prison now; but that doesn't really help us...
A federal court has sentenced Calin Mateias to a year in federal prison over a distributed denial - of - service attack he launched against World of Warcraft servers in 2010.
According to the feds, former Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., a Brooklyn Democrat, was sentenced to the longest federal prison term of any state legislator convicted of corruption — 168 months, or 14 years.
Taylor Schilling («The Lucky One») stars as a woman who is thrown into federal prison after helping her ex-girlfriend, played by Laura Prepon, deliver a suitcase full of drug money.
Though yoga classes in prisons are not rare anymore, training inmates to become yoga teachers had never been done before, until last April, when FCI Otisville, a medium - security federal prison for men in New York state engaged with the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch, a spiritual retreat center located in New York's Catskills Mountains.
«Ninth Circuit allows for Bivens suit against operator of private federal prison Main Connecticut governor vetoes bill which would have created a state sentencing commission»
MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Tuesday following his conviction on corruption charges.
Former New York state Assembly member William Boyland was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison last September after his conviction on bribery charges.
However, Canada's federal prison ombudsman, Ivan Zinger, says that he isn't sure cultural assessments will do anything to change the black population's overrepresentation in prison.
In this coming year, CCLA will focus on our domestic challenge of the practices of Solitary Confinement / segregation, in Canadian federal prisons — we are fighting the legislative provisions that permit these practices arguing that they constitute torture and cruel and unusual treatment and can not be countenanced by a civilized society.
On January 17, 2018, the BCCLA won a constitutional challenge to indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons across Canada, but our work is far from over.
In San Francisco you can take in some of the state's best art galleries and eateries, jump on a historic tram to see the «Painted Ladies» against the backdrop of the city skyline, or see first - hand the perils of the former federal prison on Alcatraz Island, aka «The Rock».
But Gerard Brady is headed to federal prison next month after he admitted he stole more than $ 310,000 in cash from the agency's...
The Orange County Weekly reports that Daniel, a physician and Pentecostal minister who sold her C - Extract product on Trinity Broadcast Network, received a sentence of «14 years in federal prison because her «brown sludge» was actually made of suntan lotion and beef flavoring.»
A former Jewish chaplain working in a Brooklyn federal prison said his bosses discriminated against him — and ultimately fired him — for his religion.
The basic numbers: As detailed here, in FY 2006 over 5,500 federal defendants were sentenced to long federal prison terms for crack offenses.
Grimm served eight months in federal prison beginning in 2015.
Rowland resigned as governor in mid-2004, pleaded guilty to corruption, and spent 10 months in federal prison before assuming his current role as an afternoon radio talk show host on WTIC 1080 AM.
Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were Cuomo's governing partners, and now both are headed to federal prison while he consolidates and expands his control over a weak Legislature.
You'll see and learn about Terminal Island Federal Prison, Coast Guard ships, massive dry docks, container terminals, the Vincent Thomas suspension bridge, Los Angeles fire boats, the cruise ships and terminal, San Pedro Bay, Angels Gate Lighthouse, the longest breakwater in the world, and much more.
«9th Circuit Rules Private Federal Prison Employees Subject to Bivens Main «Geezer Bandit» Still on the Loose in California»
A 10 foot by 20 foot (3 by 6 meter) outdoor enclosure slightly extends their world, but just for about an hour and a half each day, according to testimony by Mark Bezy, a former federal prison warden.
Pat Swisher was a brash young franchise titan until a stretch in federal prison changed the way he thought about business.
The only federal prison in Puerto Rico, MDC Guaynabo, is located in the northern part of the island and currently houses 1,389 inmates.
Rivera was sentenced to 55 years in prison in August 1981 for seditious conspiracy and an array weapons charges, then to another 15 years in 1988 for conspiring to escape federal prison through the use of explosives.
«The record - high incarceration rate in the U.S. has been inflated further by federal prison sentences for people whose only crime is stepping across the border.
A marketing company's CEO broke down in tears and blubbered about how badly he hurt his own children, as he was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison Wednesday for...
Prosecutors in the state case recommended a sentence of five years» probation because Ms. Huntley already faces federal prison time.
On your first day, see the Aquarium of the Bay and the historic Alcatraz Federal Prison on an exclusive Night Tour.