The phrase
"hardened criminals" refers to individuals who have committed serious and numerous crimes in the past, making them less likely to change or be reformed. They are considered to be experienced, tough, and unyielding in their criminal behavior.
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A malevolent game of cat - and - mouse ensues, between John and a gang
of hardened criminals out for the money — and blood.
I think it is magnificent that the Senate has raised the age of criminal responsibility, as it prevents young people from being locked up
with hardened criminals who have a bad influence on them.
As an experienced criminal defense lawyer, I understand that individuals charged with white collar crimes are generally
not hardened criminals, and may have only made an unfortunate decision or two.
The Nigeria Police Force of Bauchi Police Command said it has apprehended notorious cattle rustlers, kidnappers in one week special operation against
hardened criminals in the state.
Just nineteen, Eric has been relocated from juvie to the big house, a claustrophobic expanse of cross-hatched steel bars, teeming with
hardened criminals for whom seething anger is their resting state.
After sentencing her to Blackgate Prison — an institution reserved for the
more hardened criminals of Gotham — Batman has second thoughts and realizes her incarceration may have been too harsh a fate for a common thief.
Those North American cowbirds are perhaps the
most hardened criminals of all the cowbirds, practicing what scientists call «mafia behavior.»
He is sent to prison, where his gentle, polite nature seems out of place against such
hardened criminals as the growling Knuckles McGinty (Brendan Gleeson).
After a year and a half of group therapy, of steering clear of the lifers and
other hardened criminals who lived in the same cellblocks with addicts and of playing basketball in the prison yard, Manigault was paroled.
The goal of the program is to help steer those who are not
yet hardened criminals the chance to turn their lives around.
In May, Gov. Pat Quinn and state lawmakers made Illinois the first state to withdraw from Secure Communities, a federal deportation program that
targets hardened criminals but has also been used against illegal immigrants arrested for misdemeanor crimes.
But even with the details we have, the ultimate truth is clear: Ahmed's death is the responsibility of this country, where we lock people up indefinitely
among hardened criminals, without trial or information about when they will be released.
Hardened criminals locked away in gritty city jails can now look forward to getting some inner peace through stress - reducing transcendental meditation classes, courtesy of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
«Our officers patrol the worst precinct in New York — prison facilities —
where hardened criminals always assault them.»
As a kid I had a huge crush on Shue (and the film does everything it can to prop her up as a girl - next - door sex symbol), but even without that today, it's still a very enjoyable romp back when we'd believe in the power of pre-pubescent teens in the face of
hardened criminal scum.
There are plenty of unintentional laughs —
hardened criminal Eddie, who has no problem upping a felony B&E to a murder rap, vents about his «fricking» frustrations, because in a PG - 13 movie only one F - bomb is allowed and it's saved for Union in a climactic one - liner — but nothing in the way of suspense.
For those who believe the prison system is a sieve
leaking hardened criminals through a permissive parole system, over the last 10 years day parole has decreased 15 % with full parole plummeting 40 % leaving more and more offenders with few if any support programs at their delayed point of community reintegration.
Someone else asked: «Why is the Eucharist given to
hardened criminals in prisons but, denied to remarried couple trying to be caring people?»
Actual corruption is a difficult charge to prove, sometimes even
with hardened criminals, if they are cunning enough and know how to cover their tracks.
Detroit's Chaldean Catholic bishop, Francis Y. Kalabat, told church leaders the diocese is reaching out to the government, the Iraqi embassy, the local Chaldean foundation, and the US Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on behalf of the detainees, most of whom are «
not hardened criminals but for the last decades have been great citizens.»
In it he said inmates and staff told him that they did feel safe in the maximum security facility designed for the state's
most hardened criminals.
Posing as two
hardened criminals who make their millions transporting drugs, Montoya brings on the duo to help with his latest shipment, but little does he know that they're not who they really say they are.
The group maintained that BSS, which is a militant arm of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is «infested with all manner
of hardened criminals and deviants» aimed at carrying out their devious activities.
You don't have to be a bad person or
a hardened criminal to find yourself with a negative result or two showing up when people Google your name.
Not that a woman deserves to be forced to acknowledge
a hardened criminal in her life: -LRB-
Do any of us believe that
hardened criminals, amoral youths, and venal politicians can be transformed into model citizens?
«It is also deplorable that a prisoner of conscience like Farshid Fathi is currently held with
hardened criminals.
Well «hate» is a strong word which personally I have always reserved for terroistS, drug dealers and
hardened criminals.
I know it's popular to think of movies where Floyd is sharing his cell with
a hardened criminal and having to worry about being shanked, but it's much more likely that he spends a bunch of time away from general population, being kept safe and probably watching TV and reading his days away.
Clearly the Senate Republicans have not changed their views on the need to treat children like children, not
hardened criminals.»
«The evidence is overwhelming: doing that is often the quickest, surest route to turn that individual into
a hardened criminal and an addict using harder drugs.
The former mayor had some very strong words for the upcoming Gotti movie, which he says will do nothing but «glorify»
hardened criminals.
By its conception, design and intendment, BSS is the militant arm of IPOB, infested with all manner of
hardened criminals and deviants.
While our minimum - and medium - security prisons have seen a reduction in inmates, our maximum - security prisons, which hold the most dangerous and
hardened criminals, remain at 122 % of capacity that they were designed to hold.
How many violent,
hardened criminals have to be released before the Board of Parole stops this cycle of bad decisions?»