Sentences with phrase «in decades in prison»

Depending on the charge and the details of the case, a violent crime conviction may result in decades in prison.

Not exact matches

«Most people are in prison because they didn't know how to make enough money legally,» says Jackson, who has more than a decade left in his sentence at Green Haven.

The 73 - year - old Boone was convicted in the 1980s in what prosecutors called the «largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history,» spending more than a decade in prison.

Rajaratnam, who faces potentially two decades or more in prison, is to be sentenced in July.

Nassar, who is named as a co-defendant in the lawsuit, is serving decades in prison for molesting some of the sport's top athletes and others as well as child pornography crimes.

«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.

Those who are today 20 or 30 are today planning how they will live afterward,» said the oligarch - turned - dissident, who spent a decade in prison seen as punishment for his political ambitions.

The prospect of years or even decades in prison might be easier to swallow if Cohen believes a presidential pardon is possible.

Daniel Rush, 28, still faces decades in prison on charges of molesting three underage boys in...

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

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

«Another time, undercover police were following us, and all they needed to put my little drug ring in prison for a decade was a photo of us consuming.

It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.

I've seen 18 year old black kids sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling cocaine to adult buyers; these predatory priests should be looking an serious issues of prison time · (measured in decades) while their purple - robed protectors deserved to be confined with them.

Philosophy, theology, and science have been struggling to escape from this prison for many decades now Quantum physics is merely one chapter in this struggle.

That bishop meets the main character, Jean Valjean, after he's released from serving nearly two decades in prison.

She was warden at a female correctional facility before being appointed to run an all - male prison in Marion, Ohio, that was in such poor condition that it had been under federal court monitoring for decades.

During the course of a decade, Mr Lawson has shared his testimony in more than 25 countries, visiting some of the world's most challenging prisons in doing so.

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Jehoiachin gives himself up and the city is spared destruction for another decade; but the young king spends the next thirty - seven years in Babylonian prison until he is finally released in 561 (see Jer.

Premier Cru Owner Sentenced to Six and a Half Years Behind Bars for Wine Ponzi Scheme John Fox, the wine store proprietor who admitted to conducting a Ponzi scheme for two decades, was sentenced in federal court yesterday to six and a half years in prison...

He was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for abusing gymnasts and other athletes at Michigan State under the guise of medical treatment for two decades.

Former USA Gymnastics women's national team coordinator Martha Karolyi and her husband Bela tell NBC they were unaware of the abusive behavior by a former national team doctor now serving decades in prison.

Sentences are repeating themselves, and how is he facing «decades in prison» if he was only sentenced to five years?

Clark was a member of a radical leftist group, but during her decades in prison has sought to perform charity work and founded an HIV / AIDS program.

In his first substantial interview in a decade and his first extensively about football since the»90s, OJ Simpson spoke to The Buffalo News about his time in prison, his life since his release, football, CTE and morIn his first substantial interview in a decade and his first extensively about football since the»90s, OJ Simpson spoke to The Buffalo News about his time in prison, his life since his release, football, CTE and morin a decade and his first extensively about football since the»90s, OJ Simpson spoke to The Buffalo News about his time in prison, his life since his release, football, CTE and morin prison, his life since his release, football, CTE and more.

«We all know that Shelley Mayer learned her brand of politics at the hip of Malcolm Smith and John Sampson, who were convicted of corruption and sent to prison for their crimes, and she has spent three decades in Albany,» said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

The man who killed 10 people in one of the largest mass shootings in New York City in decades was released from prison earlier this year.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

stands accused of pocketing nearly $ 4 million illegally and, if convicted, could spend two decades in federal prison.

The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said this week that the number of incidents involving contraband at the state's 54 prisons more than doubled over the last decade, from 2,540 incidents in 2008 to 5,231 incidents last year.

The federal government began contracting with private prisons in 1997, more than a decade after states started using them.

Successive British governments have battled for more than a decade to deport the cleric, who is wanted in Jordan on terror charges and has been in and out of prison since his first arrest in 2001.»

Last year's outcomes in prisons were the worst for a decade.

Two decades after he was sodomized by an NYPD officer, touching off one of the biggest police misconduct investigations in city history, Abner Louima is living a quiet but productive life in Miami, while the officer who attacked him, Justin Volpe, has eight years left on his federal prison sentence.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has run the Assembly for two decades, was arrested and faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Edward Mangano's attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, said in a statement, «The release of Singh's plea confirms what we all knew — a man who faces decades in prison for his own vast and hidden criminality struck a cooperation deal, which stunningly included his release on bail, in a desperate effort to save himself.

«The release of Singh's plea confirms what we all knew — a man who faces decades in prison for his own vast and hidden criminality struck a cooperation deal... in a desperate effort to save himself,» said Mangano's attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after a lobbyist made up lies to try to escape the decades in prison he could face after admitting to eight crimes.

In the last several weeks, the governor has made multiple moves on criminal justice reform, announcing that he would overhaul solitary confinement in state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decadIn the last several weeks, the governor has made multiple moves on criminal justice reform, announcing that he would overhaul solitary confinement in state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decadin state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decade.

When Dan Walker died last week, it was hard for obituary writers not to note that he was one of four Illinois governors over the past five decades who ended up in prison.

Cornell University has been teaching college classes in Upstate New York prisons for well over a decade.

In the decades ahead there will be pressure to spend more on the essentials - whether that's care for the older generation, equipment for our armed forces, or more prisons and police.

A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Howe pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, and defense lawyers have argued that he lied on the witness stand to try to escape the potential for decades in prison.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who endured for decades as one of the most powerful figures in state government, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in November on multiple corruption charges.

New York, NY (AP / WBEN)- A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after an associate, disgraced ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, made up lies to try to escape the decades in prison he could face after admitting to eight crimes.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after a lobbyist made up lies to try to escape decades in prison for his crimes.

More college classes are expected to come to New York prisons as early as this fall, as the government directs funds to such programs in the state on a scale not seen in several decades.