Sentences with phrase «federal prison changed»

Pat Swisher was a brash young franchise titan until a stretch in federal prison changed the way he thought about business.

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The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

It changes the federal penalty to include a maximum of eight years in prison and forces the perpetrator to pay the costs incurred because of the fake call.

Former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. has asked a New York federal judge to change his mind about allowing the government more time to respond to Espada's August request to vacate his sentence, saying conditions at his prison are too inhumane to wait.

There's a real sense of hope that Robinson will bring representation and change to the long - struggling neighborhood, even as he tries to shed the stigma of a drug - related past that included running a marijuana enterprise and spending more than six years in federal prison.

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.

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.

Hacking: Federal prosecutors in Alexandria are seeking a 10 - month prison sentence in a computer hacking case in which an aspiring medical student tried to change his MCAT scores.