Sentences with phrase «island after the prison»
One part of its history is the Indian occupation from the winter of 1969 to the spring of 1971, when a band of American Indians seized the island after the prison closed.
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Although Robben Island is generally a tourist attraction, Fricker recommends speaking with a former prison guard, like author and guard for Mandela Christo Brand, after the experience.
After serving 27 years, 18 of which were in the infamous Robben Island prison, Mandela was released when the ban on the ANC Party was lifted, becoming the country's first black president four years later.
O'Reilly on Twitter Monday called Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos a «prison punk» after the Long Island Republican provided a congratulatory quote on a press release from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the historic improvement of the state's general obligation bond rating.
Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president and congressman, raged against federal judges after Diana Durand, a woman who pleaded guilty to funneling illegal campaign contributions to Mr. Grimm, was sentenced to three months in prison yesterday.
A corrections officer who worked at Rikers Island has been sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of ordering inmates to beat up two teenage prisoners in 2007.
At 10 a.m., a Long Island man seeking exoneration after he pleaded guilty as an 18 - year - old in 1988 to sexually abusing boys and served 13 years in prison, Jesse Friedman, attends oral arguments in a state appeals court hearing seeking Nassau County DA and police files in the case; 45 Monroe Pl., Brooklyn.
He said the Island litter problem became more noticeable after the closing of Arthur Kill Correctional Facility and elimination of the prison's «clean teams.»
The NYC Department of Education is still paying a shady Long Island tech firm, Custom Computer Specialists — even though it was advised to avoid the company after a scandal that sent a consultant to prison.
The presidential primary races could help determine the winner of the heated Long Island contest to replace Dean Skelos, the former state Senate leader who is headed to prison after...
The presidential primary races could help determine the winner of the heated Long Island contest to replace Dean Skelos, the former state Senate leader who is headed to prison after a corruption conviction.
After dating online for six months, Jeanne Siegel and Billy Serviss decide to meet on «Love Prison,» a deserted island where they have zero privacy.
Nelson Mandela was released from a Robben Island prison in 1990, after being inside for twenty - seven years.
The film follows former war hero and convict Snake Plissken, who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a no - man's land / maximum security prison to bring back the American President after he's shot down over the island and captured by the violent gangs who now lay claim to the island.
In the 1930s set film, the English gent, 38, forms a curious bond with counterfeiter Louis, played by Rami Malek, when he's sent to the notorious Devil's Island prison colony in French Guiana after being framed for murder.
He's sent into Manhattan to recover the president after he's kidnapped by a gang, the island itself is now a dystopian prison.
After repeated attmpts at escaoe from prison, Hall finally makes his way home, only to see the entire island wiped away by a massive hurricane.
This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War.
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After discovering characters Chico and Paz are alive and being held prison on an island, Big Boss is sent on a solo mission — in true MGS fashion — to bail them out, which takes place in the middle of March in 1975.
After landing on the island the Straw Hat pirates are kidnapped by The Red Count; a powerful pirate who escaped the depths of Impel Down, an infamous underwater maximum - security prison for the most dangerous criminals the world has seen.
Taking place after the events of Origins, Batman finds himself on Blackgate island to quell a prison uprising instigated by unknown parties.
The stage for this After Party is an abandoned prison island near the bay, known to the lunatic racers and ravers as The Rock.
As well, in R. v. Lillgert, 2014 BCCA 493 (CanLII), a marine officer piloting a ferry that sank after running into an island was sentenced to four years in prison for criminal negligence that caused the death of two passengers.
«This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense,» the meme said alongside an image of Cuban - American Emma Gonazlez, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, speaking at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on Saturday.