Sentences with phrase «little time in prison»

Some lawmakers feared lenient judges were giving criminals too little time in prison.

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That left me little time or room to get mixed up in prison politics or yard dramas.

«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.

The New York City Department of Investigation disclosed last fall that their supervisors urged pregnant women correction officers in New York City — mostly minority women — to obtain abortions («Women Given Cruelest Choice Now Fight Back,» New York Times, Oct. 21, 1989) The lower levels of the criminal justice system receive little funding, and New York City prisons are crowded.

Such a little thing — but in order to achieve it, she went against the wishes of the child's adoptive parents, her superiors, and the prison authorities, all of whom thought she was wasting her, and their, time.

A little more than a week after powerful former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison, his one - time State Senate counterpart learned today that he'll be doing time, as well.

Ken Lovett: «Even for New York, which has almost become numb to the procession of public officials in recent years who left office in handcuffs or shame, having two top legislative leaders given substantial prison time a little more than a week apart is a new low.»

The film's comparison points are clear — a little bit of «Scum,» a little bit of «A Prophet «-- but it sets itself apart by making Jack O'Connell «s central character Eric (who is «starred up,» prison slang for being a high - risk violent offender) a hair - trigger, emotionally fucked psychopath, and by putting him in the same wing as his father Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), a long - time lifer who's the right - hand man to prison kingpin Spencer (Peter Ferdinando).

The flashback scenes of his past do little more than to establish that he knows how to run fast, and it does set up some parallels for his time in prison, but they give practically no insight into his personality.

But once you've taken the choppy ferry over to the former prison and leper colony you might like to consider stepping a little further back in time to explore!

In another New Yorker article in 2011, Alec Wilkinson said the rise of the tiny - house movement was based in part on the rhetoric that big houses were wasteful «debtors» prisons» while little houses were «luxurious» because their owners could live there debt - free and spend more time enjoying themselveIn another New Yorker article in 2011, Alec Wilkinson said the rise of the tiny - house movement was based in part on the rhetoric that big houses were wasteful «debtors» prisons» while little houses were «luxurious» because their owners could live there debt - free and spend more time enjoying themselvein 2011, Alec Wilkinson said the rise of the tiny - house movement was based in part on the rhetoric that big houses were wasteful «debtors» prisons» while little houses were «luxurious» because their owners could live there debt - free and spend more time enjoying themselvein part on the rhetoric that big houses were wasteful «debtors» prisons» while little houses were «luxurious» because their owners could live there debt - free and spend more time enjoying themselves.

Maybe we could get little hockey stick tatoos to signify how many times a «climate expert» has blocked us online or in person.Like teardrop tatoos in prison, it would alert others to how many times the self proclaimed «experts» have killed a reasonable, logical climate discussion...

The remainder — the Prisons and Courts Bill, the Local Government Finance Bill and the Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill — have little prospect of making it through in time and will likely have to be restarted in the next Parliament.