Sentences with phrase «federal prison over»

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.

A judge decided Tuesday neither would spend a day in federal prison over criminal convictions tied to a 2014 Boynton Beach police chase and...

This is an increase of 40 % in the number of aboriginals detained in Canada's federal prisons over the previous ten years.

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He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

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

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the estate of the late Cleve Heidelberg is asking for over $ 100 - million for the five decades he spent in prison

An explosive run as a rookie head coach at Louisville, demanding and then abandoning a 10 - year contract for the NFL in a moment that helped cement his heel persona, a superstar NFL player sent to federal prison, a midnight flight to take over a SEC program shortly after, an employee sex scandal that imploded a potential BCS title contender, and finally, a chance to keep his family together in one state and restart his career.

Average Joe's serve hard time in federal prison for falsifying identity documents, yet it is done legally all over this country in vital records» offices with the permission of judges and barbaric, antiquated state laws.

«We hope that discussions between Lagos State Government and Federal Government over Federal Government lands and state lands within Lagos, as well as over disuse or surplus lands which Federal Government especially Defence and Prisons are still occupying in Lagos, and are now surplus to requirement, will be held to settle this palaver once and for all,» Okunnu said.

A federal judge denied former Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh's motion for a new trial, and ordered him to report to prison in October to begin serving a two - year sentence for illegally pocketing over $ 200,000 in salary and overtime in his job as a lieutenant in the county sheriff's department.

The presidency has reacted to the ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, which remanded Senator representing Delta - North, Peter Nwaoboshi in prison over alleged fraud of N805m.

The presidency has reacted to the ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, which remanded Senator representing Delta - North, Peter Nwaoboshi in prison over...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded the former Governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki, in Kuje Prison, Abuja, over money laundering offences involving about N37bn.

Former Republican Assemblyman Chris Ortloff has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in federal prison for trying to set up sexual encounters with minors over the internet.

The resolution also preempts a number of plans in Cuomo's own budget, on taxes, free college courses for prison inmates, and spending authority over federal health care funds.

What Mr. Silver didn't say: He is trying to keep his taxpayer - financed pension, trying to stay out of prison and trying to forfeit as little cash as possible from the schemes that the federal government says netted him more than $ 5 million over the decades.

Although Rowland was convicted and spent 10 months in prison on a non-campaign related federal charge, public anger over political corruption in general pushed state lawmakers to pass major campaign reforms.

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the remand of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani - Kayode, and two others in prison over an alleged fraud of N4.6 bn.

Queens Democratic State Senator Shirley Huntley, who looks like a church lady and voted like one too, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for looting her sham non-profit of over $ 100,000.

As Ivey will tell you, she had about three hours to prepare before taking over the governorship, coming into office at the height of a controversy that forced out her predecessor and inheriting a prison system under federal court order.

A Federal Capital Territory, High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to remand into prison custody pending the determination of a bail application by the Ex - FCT minister Bala Mohammed who has been arraigned over a 6 - count charge bordering on abuse of office, false declaration of assets and fraud to the tune of N864million.

Bala Mohammed, a former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, was on Wednesday, May 10, remanded in the Kuje Maximum Prison over allegations of fraud.

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.

And before that, a 10 - week stint in solitary confinement after he stepped over the property line at the Federal Correctional Institution in Schuylkill, Pa., one of three prisons where he has spent the past three years.

A federal judge Tuesday denied former Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh's motion for a new trial, and ordered him to report to prison in October to begin serving a two - year sentence for illegally pocketing over $ 200,000 in salary and overtime in his job as a lieutenant in the county sheriff's department.

When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer.

Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state's rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades.

Currently, there are over 2 million people incarcerated in the 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, 79 Indian Country jails, military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in U.S. territories.

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.

One federal judge appointed him to represent prisoners in a collective action over second - hand tobacco smoke (a case that resulted in compensation for the clients and the banning of tobacco from Maryland's prisons), another asked him to serve on the U.S. District Court's task force regarding electronic discovery, and the Chief Judge asked him to serve on that court's bench - bar subcommittee on attorneys» fees.

Federal prosecutors previously asked St. Eve, who presided over Black's four - month trial earlier this year, to sentence the silver - haired press lord to federal prison for as long as 24 years for his July 13 convictions on three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of jFederal prosecutors previously asked St. Eve, who presided over Black's four - month trial earlier this year, to sentence the silver - haired press lord to federal prison for as long as 24 years for his July 13 convictions on three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of jfederal prison for as long as 24 years for his July 13 convictions on three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.

The report indicates that they are the least likely of all federal defendants to be given non-custodial sentences, even over and above violent and weapon offenses, and that «Prison sentences imposed on defendants convicted of CSEC offenses were among the longest in the federal justice system.

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.

The basic numbers: As detailed here, in FY 2006 over 5,500 federal defendants were sentenced to long federal prison terms for crack offenses.

The most significant driver of the five-fold increase in the federal prison population over the past thirty years has been mandatory minimums, particularly those for drug offenses.

Federal prosecutors took over the case, and a judge sentenced Moore to serve nearly 2 1/2 years in prison for traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor in July 2002....

The judges decided not to have the entire federal appeals court in Manhattan hear the appeal of lawyer Lynne Stewart's sentence of a little over two years in prison.

I apply the set of considerations to four areas of procedural law, concluding that Canadian courts have struggled with some issues — tribunal reconsideration and tribunal standing — but have done reasonably well on others — superior court jurisdiction over federal prisons and the content of the record.

For over ten years, we have developed and implemented comprehensive medical services for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, including numerous contracts for correctional facilities all over the United States.

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».

For example, a guy with a 7 - plex was fined over $ 18,000 per unit just for paperwork violations on lead paint, and a guy went to federal prison for four years for illegal ceiling texture scraping.