Sentences with phrase «mandatory prison sentences of»

Conviction for some federal drug offenses can result in mandatory prison sentences of 5, 10 and 20 years.

Not exact matches

Eastern State Penitentiary has a 16 - foot - high bar graph, showing the dramatic jump in the prison population, due to expanded definitions of crimes and longer, mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses, notes Sean Kelley, Eastern State senior vice president.

Florida, on the other hand, is relaxing its mandatory prison sentences in light of the ruling, throwing out every mandatory life sentence given to inmates who committed their crimes while a juvenile.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

So prison populations soared, and mandatory sentences forced often reluctant judges to imprison first - time offenders, many of them lower - level «mules» who were merely carrying the drugs for the dealers, who were seldom touched.

I am thankful for the progress that has been made in reforming the health care system, securing nuclear weapons, repealing «Don't Ask Don't Tell, ending the practice of torture, reforming mandatory minimum prison sentences, withdrawing from Iraq, and creating green jobs and incentives.

Knife crimes committed by 16 - and 17 - year - olds will result in a mandatory four - month prison sentence, the Ministry of Justice has announced.

Mr Raab, meanwhile, wants to make it mandatory to deport any foreigner convicted of a crime resulting in a prison sentence of a year or longer, unless they face the threat of torture or death.

Similarly, the majority of gun owners (67 percent) also support allowing cities to sue licensed gun dealers when the gun dealer's sales practices allow criminals to obtain guns and requiring a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison for a person convicted of knowingly selling a gun to someone who can not legally have one (71 percent).

In the fast - paced action thriller, Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years.

Based loosely on a true story that was prominently featured in the PBS series «Frontline», Dwayne Johnson (Fast Five, Get Smart) stars as John Matthews, a construction business - owning father who desperately is trying to save his 18 - year - old son, Jason (Gavron, Breaking and Entering), from going to prison for a huge chunk of his life due to the rigidity of the Federal mandatory sentence drug charges in place.

In the action thriller SNITCH, Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years.

When he was growing up, his family dealt crack in Daytona Beach, Fla., and while Fryer was on his way to becoming a celebrated economist at Harvard University, many of his cousins and closest friends were serving mandatory sentences in prison.

By now, you've probably read elsewhere about the case of Genarlow Wilson, the seventeen - year old Georgia high school student and athlete who engaged in consensual oral sex with a fifteen - year old and was sentenced to ten years in prison under Georgia's mandatory minimum sentence guidelines, which consider him a «sex offender.»

TORONTO — The mandatory minimum sentence of one year in prison for luring a child into sexual activity via the internet is unconstitutional, Ontario's top court has ruled.

The Model Penal Code: Sentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentenSentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentensentencing guidelines, and appellate sentence review.

Many of those with pending applications for clemency were convicted long ago of garden - variety crimes and have fully served their time; many others are still serving lengthy mandatory prison terms from which there is no hope of parole (parole having been eliminated from federal sentencing).

The felony charges involved retaliation against a victim / witness, harassment and violation of bond conditions, and carried a mandatory sentence to prison upon conviction.

Forty four of the charges resulting from a grand jury indictment carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison as a sex offender had the client been convicted.

Passmore suggests that as a general rule one might have thought that a contested process in which the tribunal controlling the proceedings is empowered to make some sort of ruling that has mandatory consequences for a participant that are either penal in nature (such as a prison sentence, a fine or other form of sanction such as a suspension from practice) or otherwise require the participant to do something he or she does not wish to do (such as pay damages, obey an injunction or give an undertaking not to do something) are ones in which the privilege should be available.

The felony charges involved, second degree assault - cause injury w / deadly weapon, carried a mandatory sentence of 5 - 16 years in prison upon conviction.

Then imposed a sentence of six years in prison, slightly longer than the five - year mandatory minimum for a conviction for attempted murder with a firearm.

Your drivers licence will be immediately suspended for 90 days; If found guilty you will lose your driving privileges for at least one year and fined a minimum of $ 1000; If you have a previous conviction for a related offence you will be subject to a mandatory prison sentence, and your period of licence revocation will be greatly increased; You will only be permitted to drive with an interlock device installed, and you will be subject to the requirements of the Back on Track Program administered by the MTO; Your insurance premiums are likely to skyrocket - by as much as six-fold for the next 5 - 7 years The Impaired Driving provisions of the the Criminal Code are unique.

In early 2016 the congressional task force created to examine overcrowding in the federal prison system, recommended the repeal of federal mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences.

Although the mandatory minimum sentences for the unlawful possession of firearms in certain circumstances has been recently declared to be unconstitutional, a person who is caught with a loaded, unregistered, and illegal handgun is very likely to receive a 3 - 4 year prison sentence for a first offence.

Represented a dentist indicted for illegally issuing prescriptions for Schedule II narcotics, obtaining a reduction from a mandatory prison sentence to a sentence of probation.

It is likely it will be plead down from a C felony (with the mandatory 3 1/2) to a D felony, for which there is the possibility of an «alternate definite sentence» of no prison time.

If you are convicted of drug possession for sale, manufacture, or transport, and if the amount of the drug involved is above the statutory threshold amount, a mandatory prison sentence will be imposed.

We have also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada addressing various prison law issues including the writ of habeas corpus, appropriate sentencing credit for pre-trial custody, the interpretation of legal grounds for pre-trial detention and the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences.

As reported in this official press release, the «United States Sentencing Commission today released a new publication — An Overview of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System (2017 Overview)-- that examines the use of federal mandatory minimum penalties and the impact of those penalties on the federal prison populatioMandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System (2017 Overview)-- that examines the use of federal mandatory minimum penalties and the impact of those penalties on the federal prison populatiomandatory minimum penalties and the impact of those penalties on the federal prison population.»

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These include mandatory minimum penalties which have created a new «floor» of long prison sentences, as well as «reverse onus» provisions for people applying for bail, making release much more difficult to obtain.

Second time DWI convictions require mandatory prison sentence and felony convictions following three of more convictions require a 6 month minimum imprisonment.

The Committee notes its concerns in the findings which include the abolition of ATSIC; the continuing gap between Indigenous peoples and others in the areas of housing, employment, health and income; the continued existence of mandatory sentencing in Western Australia; the over representation of Indigenous peoples in prison, continued deaths in custody, Aboriginal women as the fastest growing prison population; and the Government's rejection of most of the recommendations adopted by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in 2000.8

Work through COAG to reform state and territory laws that breach children's rights including mandatory minimum sentencing laws and the holding of children in adult prisons

In recent years, state governments have compounded these issues through the use of tough «law and order» policies, such as the expansion of mandatory sentencing which has contributed to unacceptable prison numbers and violence in communities.

It is a matter of great concern that the scope of the mandatory sentencing provisions in Western Australia has recently been expanded to apply to an assault on a «public officer», with a minimum prison term of six months for an adult and up to 3 months detention for a juvenile 16 years and over.