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The choice of a new leader for the union representing teachers in the District of Columbia — the first since a financial scandal sent its former president to federal prison last year — won't be decided until a runoff election is held later this month.

Former New York state Assembly member William Boyland was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison last September after his conviction on bribery charges.

Not exact matches

He was sentenced to life in prison last month, though federal guidelines stated he could have served as few as twenty years.

Because of the lasting toll it takes on prisoners, President Barack Obama has called on state correction centers to reduce punishment by isolation and banned solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons.

The federal - prison population has decreased significantly over the last three years from 220,000 in 2013 to 197,000 in December 2015.

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions — who is currently under pressure to resign for failing to reveal his meetings with the Russian ambassador before President Donald Trump's inauguration — issued a memo reversing the Obama administration's decision to phase out its use of private prisons at the federal level.

A Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty last year to federal child p0rnography charges was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison.

Manhattan federal prosecutors told the judge who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won't push for them to go to prison until at least three - plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.

It is thought to be a much less common problem than in the US, where the federal government had to intervene with the Prison Rape Elimination Act last year.

Frederick Ippolito, former Town of Oyster Bay planning commissioner who pleaded guilty to federal tax charges last year, has died in prison, his attorney, Brian Griffin said.

The Joe Percoco corruption trial resumes this afternoon in federal court in Manhattan, with disgraced ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, who has been spending his night in jail since late last week, appearing in a business suit — not prison garb — as per the judge's orders.

But Seabrook remained unapologetic in the Dec. 17 speech, which the city's prison guards have dubbed «Seabrook's Last Supper» because of his upcoming Manhattan federal bribery trial.

A Brooklyn federal judge last week sentenced former state Sen. Shirley Huntley to a year and one day in prison for stealing taxpayer dollars,?

Former Assemblyman Tony Seminerio, who pleaded guilty last January to federal corruption charges, has died in a North Carolina prison.

Seminerio, 75, died last Thursday while serving the first year of a six - year prison sentence, said Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Last week, a federal appeals court shot down Halloran's bid to stay out of prison on bail while he appeals his bribery conviction.

U.S. prosecutors are recommending that former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver receive a sentence «substantially in excess» of 10 years in prison for his conviction on federal corruption charges late last year.

The last Republican to hold the office was Mary Moran, who won a surprising victory in 1989 and served one term before losing in 1991 to Democrat Joseph Ganim, who later went to federal prison on corruption charges.

Convicted ex-State Senator John Sampson looks to be heading for prison after a federal appeals court denied his last - ditch effort to avoid prison while fighting his case.

Last week, former Attica prison employees Sean Warner, Matthew Rademacher and Keith Swack walked away from criminal prisoner brutality charges in Wyoming County Court without having to testify or spend a day in jail, but the three men still face legal challenges in federal court.

Though the park is still named after Skelos, who last week was sentenced to five years in prison on federal corruption charges, the village of Rockville Centre removed any signs referencing the Dean Skelos Sports Complex.

An Ohio man today admitted to federal charges in connection with the bombing of a New York state prison guard last year.

Dean Skelos, the once mighty Senate Republican who was addressed by colleagues as «Leader» before his political career collapsed last year, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison following his conviction on federal corruption charges.

Last September, Finch became the first incumbent mayor in Bridgeport history to lose a mayoral primary and his loss came at the hands of Ganim, a former mayor who spent seven years in federal prison on corruption charges.

He was also sentenced to six months in federal prison in Connecticut for tax evasion charges last week, Schneiderman said.

Last week, two Assemblymembers were sentenced to prison for their ethics crimes and Governor Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» economic development program was reported to be under scrutiny by federal prosecutors.

As of last December, less than 23,000 federal inmates were housed in private prisons.

NEW HAVEN — Former Congressional candidate Lisa Wilson - Foley Tuesday was ordered to serve five months in prison for concealing a campaign deal she struck with former Gov. John G. Rowland after a federal judge on Tuesday rejected her last minute claim that...

Silver, convicted on federal corruption charges late last year, was sentenced to 12 years in prison last week.

Mondello acknowledged that the image of Nassau Republicans has taken a hit because of a series of political indictments, that include former Oyster Bay Commissioner of Planning and Development Frederick Ippolito, who pleaded guilty last year to federal tax evasion and was sent to prison, and Hempstead Town Councilman Edward Ambrosino, who pleaded not guilty earlier this month to federal tax evasion and wire fraud charges.

The new poll follows a month in which former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were sentenced to federal prison after they were convicted on corruption charges in separate cases last year.

Percoco was convicted last week on three of six federal corruption charges and faces up to 50 years in prison.

Han, who resigned from the university last year, faces four federal criminal charges that could bring prison time if he's convicted,» Tony Leys writes in the article.

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.

Under a plea deal with federal prosecutors in Spokane, Wash., last week, Richard J. Novak may face 10 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines for his part in a conspiracy to commit fraud.

Since the last World AIDS Day, the federal and provincial justice ministers have had a year to study and discuss this issue as people living with HIV languish in prisons under a regime that has been criticized by experts at home and abroad.

West Coast LEAF intervened in the historic legal challenge to solitary confinement in federal prisons, which was brought by BC Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada and was heard over nine weeks last summer.

Last week the Federal Government announced it would ask the Australian Law Reform Commission to examine the factors leading to the over representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our prison system, and consider what reforms to the law could «ameliorate this national tragedy».