Sentences with phrase «long time in prison»

It's a beautiful and heartbreaking look at how a person struggles to readjust to normal life after such a long time in prison.

It's not going to be long before you smack a bottle over someone's head in a bar and get locked up for a long time in prison.

He spent a long time in prison because people disagreed with what he taught.

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Naghmed Abedini said her husband had earlier told her that he will likely be held «in prison for a long time,» she said earlier this week in a statement through the center.

«It was something I felt personally, dealing with it in my family and with other friends I grew up with who were in prison for quite a long time or in and out of jail for one reason or another,» he explains.

After this happened a few times, I realized that my long hair was also a symbol in another way: not only did it show everybody that I was somehow different than the militaristic prison guard, but I was also different than the legalistic religious Christian.

It has been a long time since a «life sentence» meant that the prisoner would stay in prison for the rest of his natural life.

«I could spend life in prison or be executed because of this» — Jonathan, that is the dumbest thing I have read on this blog in a long time, and the competition for that is FIERCE!

Add to that the foundation of many hospitals, the system of universal schooling, the presence of chaplains in prisons, and one could go on a long time.

Federal prosecutors are calling for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to be sentenced to time in prison longer than any other political figure in recent history.

Now that the major party primaries for this election are over with, the Illinois media is reporting that the Republican nominee, Paul McKinley, was convicted of burglary long ago and served time in prison.

Dadey says the secretive budget is a potential breeding ground for corruption, at a time when both former leaders of the legislature are facing potentially long prison sentences later in April.

This means they are subject to harsher punishments on repeat offenses, but any time the offender spends in prison is counted within this decade - long span.?

We will continue to aggressively track down those individuals who traffic in narcotics and seek to put them in prison for a long time.»

Another lawmaker, long - time Assemblyman Bill Scarborough, pled guilty and faces prison, and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos joined his former counterpart Assembly Speaker Silver in having to defend himself against charges of corruption.

DNAinfo reported yesterday that Ms. Noerdlinger, the chief of staff to Chirlane McCray and former top aide to Rev. Al Sharpton, is in a long - term relationship with a man who served time in prison and attacked police on Facebook.

After pleading guilty and accepting a plea bargain that he was told would lead to 6 months in prison, Tamer listened incredulously in court a few weeks later as the judge handed down a sentence that was three times longer.

Cleary Wolters (who inspired the character Alex Vause in the Netflix show) shares her true story from the moment she first agreed to smuggle drugs into the United States to her time in prison (substantially longer than Piper's one year sentence) to her release and the aftermath.

Grier's song «Long Time Woman» from 1971 women in prison film The Big Doll House is briefly heard.

Gekko was sure in prison for a long time for a white collar crime.

All this distresses his real wife, but his actions and recordings get him closer to building enough of a case to take bad men off the streets and put them in prison for a long time.

After a certain point, though — I'd rather not say exactly how — «Table 19» extricates its characters from their prison, and from there, the film becomes something I did not expect: a movie about characters who've been thrown together in an unfamiliar context, and find that the new experience encourages them to deal with emotional issues they've been refusing to address for a long time.

Mostly, this is a dramatization of a collection of events in Nelson Mandela's life, from his time as a young lawyer and ladies» man, to his failed marriage, to his pursuit of power in the African National Congress, to his long relationship with the woman who would become Winnie Mandela (Harris, Skyfall), to his life in prison, and ultimately to the makings of the democracy in South Africa that would elect him and ultimately end the oppressive reign of apartheid in the tumultuous nation.

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).

Paul Walker (Eight Below, Running Scared) stars as ex-Marine Tim Kearney, a «three - time loser from Palmdale», who is sent to prison for a very long time, and while in there, gets into a heap of trouble with the criminal brotherhood (he kills their leader), which means certain death for sure if he were to go back into the prison population.

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«In today's society, dark skin has become linked to longer prison time, higher unemployment rates, low self - esteem, lower standards of beauty, and higher psychological distress.

The last time we saw the fine actress Kristin Scott Thomaswas in I've Loved You So Long, where she served a prison sen - tence for killing her son.

David Armstrong continued: «Identifying two indicators - emotional intelligence and social skills - and mapping these to the Achieving Schools Theory of Change, is an important first step in measuring the longer term outcomes of the programme, such as reduced risk of antisocial behaviour and spending time in prison and reduced risk of mental ill - health and long - term illness.

The catch is that they can only interpret within the bounds of the law so, for example, because cannabis is a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance, classified at the same level as heroin and ecstasy, a first - time, non-violent offender convicted of dealing cannabis can end up in prison for a very long time, possibly for life.

Were I to be in the unfortunate situation of doing time in a maximum - security prison, I think I'd be relatively content as long as I was permitted to have one small device: my Apple iPhone 5S or its equivalent from other companies.

Featuring exhibits documenting the full spectrum of the country's history, visitors can see artifacts from the long millennia of Maya rule, items from the early days when Belize was a pirate haven, cats o» nine tails and chain balls from colonial times when the building was a prison, and special displays about the distinct cultures and peoples in modern Belize.

During his time in prison Snart researched and learned how to develop a weapon that would slow down Flash long enough for him to put an end to him.

Overall, Prison architect is a very addictive simulator, and is one of the most realistic and in - depth building simulators I've played in a long time.

The point of every game (more or less) is to survive as long as you can, from the point you begin the game till the end, an example of which is Papers, Please, where death means the end of the game, but you don't even die at times, you end up in prison as an alternative failure state.

Vasquez was arrested several times and faced a long prison sentence in 2007.

That's six times longer than Mayfield spent in prison and only half as much recovered).

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.

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If you are facing some major penalties or prison time, you Many criminal law convictions can result in long - term results that may end up affecting someone's entire life.

«I stayed in prison a long time, not just the fact it's something I didn't do, but it was hard to get people to hear you,» Jones said at the courthouse Thursday.