Sentences with phrase «federal prisoners»
Federal prisoners are individuals who have committed crimes that go against the laws of the entire country, not just a specific state. As a result, they are incarcerated in federal prisons rather than state prisons. Full definition
These changes reduced the sentences of, and is continuing to lead to the early release of, many thousands of federal prisoners.
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It's the single largest federal prisoner release in American history.
He is the only federal prisoner to ever receive a death sentence.
Life — The Omnibus maintains all existing pro-life policy and funding provisions that have been carried in Appropriations legislation in previous years, including the Hyde Amendment, a ban on public funding for abortions in the District of Columbia, and a ban on abortion funding for federal prisoners.
The Obama administration in 2014 had launched a clemency program, training 4,000 volunteer lawyers that screened 36,000 federal prisoners who had sought volunteer assistance.
The petitioner is asking that the immediate custodian rule, which applies to normal federal prisoners, be ignored in favor of a rule which would provide more equal justice to all immigration detainees.
His comments come a month after President Obama announced the early release of about 6,000 non-violent offenders — the largest one - time release of federal prisoners in the nation's history.
If the sentence is carried out, he would join a group of just three federal prisoners executed since 1988, when capital punishment by the U.S. government was reinstated.
The House Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Wednesday that aims to prepare federal prisoners for release so they are less likely to commit another crime.
Russo thinks the federal government will also steer more federal prisoners his way and pay for his jail to house them.
The lawsuit seeks to return to the old way of counting New York's roughly 57,000 state and federal prisoners as «residents» of the districts in which they're incarcerated.
While the number of state and federal prisoners continues to fall, former inmates are often reincarcerated because of technical parole violations.
Finally, though, the grown - up Ludlow (Josh Gad, «Jobs»), a conspiracy theory geek and Plant (Peter Dinklage, «X-Men: Days of Future Past»), a perverted federal prisoner, are reunited to become the «Arcaders.»
Over its 36 year history as a federal penitentiary, the island was home to some of the most infamous federal prisoners.
This sentence also has some obfuscating adjectives: should we infer from the wording that there is a different rule for «abnormal federal prisoners» than for «normal» prisoners»?
If most district judges exercise the restraint that I predict they will, and circuit judges use Guidelines - sensitive standards for the defiant, Booker will turn out to be, in the words of one famous federal prisoner, «a good thing.»»
Justice Peter Leask found the prolonged and indefinite segregation of federal prisoners violates their rights to life, liberty, and security of the person (s. 7 of the Charter) and discriminates against mentally ill and Indigenous prisoners (s. 15 of the Charter).
Whether you believe legal services should be expanded or not through deregulation, surely we can all agree that federal prisoners deserve protection from incompetents who seek to profit from their misfortune.
Since relocating to Texas, Ms. Rol has volunteered with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and Clemency Project 2014, a working group of lawyers and advocates providing pro bono assistance to federal prisoners who would likely have received a significantly shorter sentence had they been sentenced today.
It would be more diplomatic and more accurate to say instead that «the immediate custodian rule, which applies to normal federal prisoners, does not now and should not extend to immigration detainees.»
According to the United States Department of Justice, percentages range from 45 percent of federal prisoners to 56 percent of state prisoners and 64 percent of inmates in local jails.
Decommissioned in 1963, Alcatraz Prison held over 1,500 federal prisoners in its lifetime, ranging from money launderers to mob bosses.
In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Federal prisoners, including those with mental illness, are being kept in solitary confinement for long periods of time in violation of federal policy, according to a new report.
The directive effects 12 percent of federal prisoners.
WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Andrew Mckenna, Author of Sheer Madness: From Federal Prosecutor to Federal Prisoner.
For federal prisoners, CSC policy says it will consider your vulnerability and the risk you face of being a victim from a roommate.
CD 800, paragraph 34 says that federal prisoners should get the same quality of health care that they can get in the community.
Federal prisoners can also call the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) for help: 1-877-885-8848.
In addition, the prose in the second example is at times inopportune: «The petitioner is asking the immediate custodian rule, which applies to normal federal prisoners, be ignored in favor of a rule which would provide more equal justice to all immigration detainees.»
Federal prisoners are regulated by the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, SC 1992, c 20, [CCRA] and its regulations.
Of course, they could abolish the federal death penalty with an ordinary act of legislation, and the President could pardon or commute the sentences of all federal prisoners on death row.
«These are not ZIP codes,» Bain said, as he rattled off the federal prisoner numbers of Darleen Druyun, formerly a top Air Force procurement officer and then a Boeing executive, and Mike Sears, former Boeing chief financial officer.
Mr. Berman... I am the wife of a federal prisoner who was severly enhanced by the replacement judge at sentencing.
That is, an essentially unregulated market of «paralegals» who may be offering legal services to federal prisoners and harming those prisoners in the process.
While seldom successful, a section 2255 action stands as the last chance for a federal prisoner to upend a wrongful conviction or sentence.
Note that unless the federal prisoner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing, or other special circumstances exist, he or she not entitled to the appointment of counsel.
If, as I suspect, that communications like this one are intended to induce inmates to hire «paralegals» to prosecute section 2255 motions, I am concerned that federal prisoners are being fleeced.
Some pro se litigants who are federal prisoners are subject to the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
In particular, a Federal Bureau of Prisons complex computes and archives the accrued time served and time remaining of all Federal prisoners.