Sentences with phrase «in state prison»

He faces five to 15 years in state prison if convicted.

75 % of people in state prison for drug conviction are people of color although blacks and whites see and use drugs at roughly the same rate.

Meanwhile, advocates for inmates in state prisons seek more visitation time.

He also advocates raising the age that juvenile offenders can be treated as adults in the state prison system.

Another outstanding issue tied to the budget is whether to raise the age when teens are treated as adults in state prisons from 16 to 18 years of age.

The plan includes more money for so called failing schools, providing college courses in state prison, and helping inmates get a job when they are released.

This report build the case that investing in children early, is less costly than spending money in the state prison system.

Now his administration is giving criminals in state prisons free computers so they can communicate with family members.

He also needs to address disturbing problems in the state prisons, and use contract negotiations with prison guards this spring to hold them accountable for abuse of prisoners.

He faces a sentence of 16 months, two years or three years in state prison.

The Westchester County District Attorney's office announced on Jan. 25 that a man has been sentenced to 18 year to life in state prison for burglarizing 11 homes throughout the county in 2014.

Mitchell was sentenced to 2 1/3 to seven years in state prison in September after admitting to providing the escapees, Richard Matt and David Sweat, with blades and other tools hidden in frozen hamburger meat.

Former Stillwater Mayor Rick Nelson faces from five to 15 years in state prison after pleading guilty to five felony child pornography charges.

Disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi is collecting a six - figure pension while he serves time in a state prison on corruption charges.

If the act that constitutes the violation of the order is itself a felony, the adverse party will be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than one year and a maximum term of not more than twenty years, in addition to whatever prison term is prescribed for the crime.

He has served time in state prison for prior convictions for delivering oxycontin, burglary and assault on a law enforcement officer, according to prosecutor Eric Linder.

In fact, a conviction under the New York Enterprise Corruption Law — the state's version of the federal RICO statute, can result in a state prison sentence of up to 25 years, significant fines, asset forfeiture, restitution and more.

Cuomo said even with a Republican Senate, he's achieved passage of marriage equality, an increase in the minimum wage, paid family leave and raising the age of incarceration in state prisons from age 16 to 18.

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 decade.

Governor Andrew Cuomo visited a state prison Thursday to announce he's hiring more guards, and to push for a change in how 16 and 17 year olds are treated in the state prison system.

The defendant faces a determinate term of 10 to 25 years in state prison when sentenced on June 18, 2013.

Her husband was granted a «merit release» in May after serving less than three years of his term in state prison.

In all, 838 cases resulted in a state prison sentence, 2.4 percent of the cases resolved that year.

He spent 20 months in the state prison in Corcoran, a town of about 25,000 people, 50 miles south of Fresno.

Cuomo says even with a Republican Senate, he's achieved passage of marriage equality, an increase in the minimum wage, to Paid Family Leave, and raising the age of incarceration in state prisons from age 16 to 18.

A commission appointed by Cuomo released a scathing report yesterday that found too many young people in state prisons are being assaulted or victimized.

Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced today that Lillian Montilla, 44, of 757 Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to 1 to 3 years indeterminate in state prison on a guilty plea to one count of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a class «C» Felony, relating to the theft of $ 191,235.05 from her former employer.

Faced with soaring health care costs in state prisons...

She currently advocates on the behalf of youth incarcerated in the state prisons.

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[10] Similarly, although family strengthening programs are scarce (parenting skills classes, the most common service available, are received by only an estimated 11 percent of fathers in state prisons [11]-RRB-, studies indicate that such programs have improved attitudes about the importance of fatherhood, increased parenting skills, and led to more frequent contact between fathers and their children.

«Any expectation that you're going to put a 16 - year - old or 17 - year - old in a state prison and you're going to rehabilitate them or you're going to teach them, or they're going to come out better than they went in is wholly unrealistic.»

And his recent plan to expand college education programs in state prisons has gone over very badly in conservative - leaning areas upstate, giving the Republicans choice election - year base - rallying material.

But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would like to bring them back in the state, prompting a fierce new debate over higher education in state prisons.

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At noon, Sen. David Carlucci will be joined by representatives from the Correctional Association of New York, the National Alliance of Mental Illness, the Mental Health Association of Westchester and the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services to urge Cuomo to sign a bill expanding mental health training in state prisons.

Also at 11 a.m., members of Release Aging People in Prison, state Sen. Kevin Parker, Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry and others demand an end to racial bias in state prisons, Legislative Office Building, LCA Press Room 130, Albany.

In exchange for the plea, Richardson, who is a two - time felony offender will spend up to four years in state prison followed by three years of post-release supervision.

While most juvenile offenders are held in county jails, not state prisons, officials from the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association said there are roughly 100 16 - and 17 - year - old inmates in state prisons at any given time.

«I believe it's going to move and we are going to get it to the floor,» said Jonathan Carey, whose autistic son, Jonathan, was killed in 2007 in Albany County by an Office of Mental Health aide who remains in state prison.

Following an outcry from prison - reform advocates and a flurry of news reports, Cuomo said he was suspending an initiative that sharply limited the content of care packages that inmates can receive in state prisons.

The internal affairs unit that investigates misconduct and abuse in state prisons was for years mired in cover - ups, nepotism and unbridled sexual harassment, and investigators who questioned or reported the problems faced threats of retaliation, including being returned to their prison - guard jobs and marked as «rats.»

Astorino also took aim at a Cuomo proposal, unveiled on Sunday, to use state funds to make college degree programs available in state prisons.

Chant faces a sentence of up to 25 years to life in State Prison if convicted of the Class A-II Felony charge.

ALBANY — On a frigid Sunday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced to a crowd of primarily black and Latino parishioners a new statewide initiative to provide college classes in state prisons.

Terry L. Cooper, 25, was pronounced dead at 8:54 p.m. Thursday at Clinton Correctional Facility in Clinton County, according to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, which oversees prisons in the state

The suspect, who served two stints in state prison and was wanted on an outstanding warrant connected to a Sept. 1 shooting, got off his bike and fired at the officers fatally striking Holder in the head.

New York State legislators did not act to reform the torture happening in their state prisons.

Another outstanding issue tied to the budget is whether to raise the age of for when teens are treated as adults in state prisons from16 to 18 years of age.