Sentences with phrase «higher prison sentences»
Many other states have higher prison sentences as well.
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Eastern State Penitentiary has a 16 - foot - high bar graph, showing the dramatic jump in the prison population, due to expanded definitions of crimes and longer, mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses, notes Sean Kelley, Eastern State senior vice president.
If ADX is known as the highest security prison for prisoners not sentenced to death, Terre Haute's death row is «the most maximum security of maximum security,» Dunham said.
US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high - ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the «right hand man» of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.
Philadelphia (CNN)- The highest - ranking Catholic Church cleric charged and convicted in the landmark Philadelphia child sexual abuse trial was sentenced to three to six years in prison Tuesday.
Among the officers on the force was Terry Young, a high - ranking leader of the Traveling Vice Lords who was later sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of heading the street gang's cocaine, crack and heroin operation on the West Side.
Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce were both sentenced to eight months in prison today, in a catastrophic ending to a high - flying political career.
That means Silver, sentenced to 12 years in prison, could remain free for upwards of a year while he appeals his case — or never head to jail at all if a higher court throws out his conviction, or grants a new trial.
The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.
I am glad to him going to prison, though it seems a light sentence considering the breach of trust and corrupt nature of a scheme concocted and run by one of NY's highest elected officials.
She was sentenced to four years in prison and she invited the high school football team to her house where they engaged in sexual acts.
The community sentences were often justified by supporters as a better alternative to the high number of short prison sentences.
Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced to more than a year in prison in the hush - money case that included accusations he sexually abused teenagers while coaching high school wrestling.
HARTFORD — The Chief State's Attorney's office asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate 5 - year - old corruption convictions against former Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez — exposing Perez to a prison sentence if the high court agrees.A Superior...
A high court in Kano State on Friday sentenced a micro-finance bank manager, Aliyu Suleiman, to 195 years in prison for stealing N21m.
Justice Muntar Abimbola of Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday sentenced a female lawyer, Yetunde Oyediran, accused of stabbing her husband to death in Ibadan Oyo state, to seven years in prison for manslaughter.
Bharara's office recently won the conviction of former state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), a one - time Senate president who was sentenced to seven years in prison last month, and the indictment of longtime Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), both very high on the food chain of bottom feeders in the Albany trough.
William F. Boyland Jr., a former state assemblyman from a political dynasty in Brooklyn, was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in federal prison in a high - profile corruption case.
«The record - high incarceration rate in the U.S. has been inflated further by federal prison sentences for people whose only crime is stepping across the border.
With no differences between the two hypothetical groups other than the length of the sentence, even 3 extra months in prison led to higher incarceration rates over time.
Although the people he works with in the prison are older adults, many were sentenced to prison as teenagers, making it easy for Smith to see a connection between them and his former high school students.
Baxter sentenced three defendants, all high - level school system administrators, to seven years in prison and 13 years on probation, plus 2,000 hours of community service and a $ 25,000 fine.
VENTURA, Calif. — A teen who fatally shot a gay junior high classmate in the back of the head during a computer lab nearly four years ago was sentenced Monday to 21 years in state prison, capping an emotional case that focused attention on how schools deal with sexual identity.
In Italy, which has the second highest rate of prison overcrowding in the EU, a new bill approved in Calabria and headed to Parliament would allow inmates to reduce their sentences by three days for every book they read, with a limitation placed on how many days they can earn each year.
Doig claimed he had never been in prison and that he had been attending high school in Ontario at the time, but Fletcher insisted that the records of the prison sentence were erased not to jeopardize the artist's career.
The Swedish judge who last week sentenced four men to prison in the high - profile Pirate Bay file - sharing case is being accused by the lawyer for one of the four of having conflicts of interest that should compel a new trial.
By now, you've probably read elsewhere about the case of Genarlow Wilson, the seventeen - year old Georgia high school student and athlete who engaged in consensual oral sex with a fifteen - year old and was sentenced to ten years in prison under Georgia's mandatory minimum sentence guidelines, which consider him a «sex offender.»
An 18 - year - old man in Wisconsin recently received a sentence of 15 years in prison after he «posed as a girl on Facebook to trick male high school classmates into sending him nude cell phone photos, which he then used to extort them for sex.»
The headline points are: ● prolonged, persistent and deliberate bad driving and consumption of drink and drugs puts offenders in the most serious category with jail sentences of at least seven years; ● a combination of these features of dangerous driving accompanied by aggregating factors, such as a bad driving record, attracts sentences towards 14 years; ● careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs provides for a longer sentence, as the degree of intoxication increases; ● regarding mobile phones — an offender distracted by a handheld mobile phone when the offence was committed will be treated as particularly serious; ● reading or composing texts over a period of time at the wheel is also likely to result in a higher level of seriousness and offenders should serve up to seven years in prison.
Tom has conducted state - appointed investigations in high - profile matters and has been appointed to various boards and commissions, including the Delaware Stadium Corporation, Delaware Emergency Medical Services Oversight Council, Criminal Justice Council, Sentencing Accountability Commission and the Prison Construction Oversight Task Force.
In Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), the highest court in the land found that trying a criminal defendant without a lawyer when he faced a prison sentence violated his 14th Amendment rights.
«Oregon Supreme Court upholds 112 - year aggregate sentence for juve mass murderer Kip Kinkel Main High - profile recipient of federal clemency headed to prison once more, and then...»
The maximum statutory sentence capped his highest possible prison sentence at twenty years.
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times provides a news update headlined «High court gives sentencing judges more power; The justices» decision allows for greater ease in setting lower prison terms under strict federal cocaine laws.»
Those who are found guilty are receiving prison sentences — or being passed onto higher courts for sentencing.
In a recent, high - profile Toronto - area case, for instance, Marco Muzzo was handed a 10 - year prison sentence for killing three children and their grandfather while driving drunk.
Howe was convicted in the sexual assault case — following a graphic, high - profile trial — stripped of his licence to practise law, sentenced to three years in prison, acquitted on appeal, and reinstated as a practising lawyer.
77 % of Indigenous inmates had previously been sentenced to an adult prison (total imprisonment rate 13x higher than the general population)
The conviction of Allen and TBW's former chairman, Lee Farkas, who still awaits sentencing on June 27, are considered to be some of the highest profile executives in the housing and financial industries to receive prison time in the aftermath of the housing market collapse, the Washington Post notes.