Sentences with phrase «for parole under»

Not exact matches

In California, with the nation's largest prison system, a federal district court found in 2005 that the parole board «operated under a sub rosa policy that all murderers [typically serving life terms] be found unsuitable for parole.»

«The charge was a kilo of cocaine,» he says, «automatic life under the Rockefeller Laws, but, luckily for me, it came with parole.

Grantees under DACA can not apply for advanced parole and those with deportation orders should seek legal advice from a lawyer or representative with proper credentials as soon as possible.

Under her previous sentence, she would not have been eligible for parole until she was 106.

It would keep children under the age of 18 out of adult prisons, ensure the presence of a parent or guardian during questioning and sentencing and ensure a juvenile will not be imprisoned for breaking parole — given they are not a danger to others — as well as require family support centers and special care for children with significant behavioral health issues.

It is a hell of a plight, after all, as originally sketched in Victor Hugo's 1,400 - page historical novel: Sentenced to 19 years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's family, the stolid, pious Valjean breaks parole upon his release and goes on to become a respectable small - town mayor under an assumed name.

Thus in Secretary of State for the Home Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reasons.

Under CJA 1991, long - term prisoners are eligible to apply for parole after half of the sentence has been served, and automatic release at the 2/3 point.

Criminal Law: Pre-Sentence Credit R. v. Carvery (N.S.C.A., Oct. 3, 2012)(35115) Ineligibility for early release / parole may justify pre-sentence credit under the Truth in Sentencing Act.

Under the original second - degree murder convictions, Jordan and Magoon had been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a minimum of 17 years.

The state of Alaska refused to permit the testing under its general post-conviction statute because DNA testing had been available, Osborne had admitted guilt to some of the crimes in an application for parole, and no constitutional right to obtain DNA post-conviction testing existed.

Under this statutory instrument, the only circumstances where legal aid was available were as follows: parole board hearings where there is the potential for immediate release, external adjudications where additional days of imprisonment can be added to the individual's sentence; and sentence calculations where internal procedures for settling disputes have been exhausted.

R. v. Carvery, 2012 NSCA 107 (35115) Ineligibility for early release / parole may justify pre-sentence credit under the Truth in Sentencing Act.

The Court of Appeal found that a change of the terms under which an already - sentenced prisoner would be eligible for parole requiring him or her to spend more time in prison was, indeed, a form of punishment, and thus a violation of the Charter, which in its view the government failed to justify under s. 1.

The existence of measures to allow and encourage a person servicing a sentence of imprisonment for public protection imposed under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003), s 225 to progress is as inherent in the justification for his continued detention as the Parole Board reviews themselves; without them detention falls to be condemned as unlawful as if there were no such reviews at all.

Under that regime, prisoners were required to serve a minimum term — known as the tariff — before becoming eligible for parole.

Additional difficulties are also involved in prisoners being cut off waiting lists for public housing, through being incarcerated and hence under «state care» already and the fact that prisoners currently inside incarceration are often not aware of the exact time they may be released (pending parole etc) and so are unable to apply for public housing while within prison.

It makes for a terrible pathway to prison: according to Victoria's Youth Parole Board, 62 per cent of its clients are or have been under Child Protection.