Sentences with phrase «more than prison»

Lawyers» and judges» reluctance to deal in facts is also a tendency that affects much more than prison law.
People charged with white collar crimes may be facing more than prison time.
Granted, psychiatrists cost more than prison guards, but I doubt the difference can explain the additional $ 467,000; there seems to be more than a little redundancy in the system.
Viviane Morales explains why truth and repentance will heal the scarred South American nation more than prison sentences for FARC rebels.
He added: «As President Trump has said, the cruel dictatorship of North Korea is little more than a prison state.

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«Most people are in prison because they didn't know how to make enough money legally,» says Jackson, who has more than a decade left in his sentence at Green Haven.
The film charts the explosive growth in America's prison population; in 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners; today, the prison population is more than 2 million.
More than 60 % of the people in U.S prisons are people of color.
As I look back, I see how prison taught me more about myself than almost any other experience I've faced.
After he was found guilty of some of the counts against him last months, he gave a press conference in which he declared victory — and then opined on Twitter that the judge would be unlikely to give him more than six months in prison.
He is actually far more familiar with prison than with Uber.
Though this new policy wouldn't affect people like Tyler who had already been sentenced, Holder's announcement gave Tyler renewed hope that his more than 20 - year - long stint in prison would actually end.
Fikret Abdic was recently elected mayor of the western Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, having served time for setting up prison camps during the war that housed 5,000 prisoners, more than 300 of whom were killed.
She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.
Wire fraud carries a possible sentence of 20 years in prison, and nearly 90 % of those convicted of securities fraud in 2015 did an average of more than four years of prison time.
Ever wish the lighting in your house was more Vogue cover shoot than prison mug shot?
Canada is no more compassionate than the U.S., the CEOs believe, and Canadians certainly wouldn't complain if lengthier prison sentences were handed down.
With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.
Three hours have been set aside in the morning for Norway's most infamous inmate, who has previously decried his prison conditions as «torture» though they are considered more than comfortable by many.
The 73 - year - old Boone was convicted in the 1980s in what prosecutors called the «largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history,» spending more than a decade in prison.
In fact, as the boot camp was wrapping up, China was throwing more than 100 human rights lawyers and activists into prison on allegations of organizing illegal paid protests.
Martin Shkreli can be held responsible for $ 10.4 million in losses when he's sentenced for defrauding investors, meaning the man more commonly known as «Pharma Bro» could face more prison time than he initially expected.
His legal team has said the isolation of 10 South, the most secure wing of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, is more severe than anything he faced in Mexico — where the kingpin said prison conditions were turning him into a zombie.
More than 200 members of Saudi Arabia's elite, including 11 princes, are now being detained at what is quite literally a gilded prison: the Ritz - Carlton hotel in the capital, Riyadh.
And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.
He was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.
The report found the US to be holding 2.3 million people in more than 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, and 3,163 local jails, among other detention centers.
And while she declined to elaborate on her trip to prison more than a decade ago, she said she will at some point: «I have a lot to say about it.
This memo followed the release of a U.S. Justice Department report in August concluding that privately - operated prisons experienced more safety and security incidents than facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisoprisons experienced more safety and security incidents than facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of PrisonsPrisons did.
With an expansion of for - profit prisons on the horizon, it is more important than ever that the government restructure contracts with the private prison industry to boost performance and change incentives.
A number of other law enforcement groups have contributed to the anti-Prop 64 campaign, including $ 25,000 from the Peace Officers Research Association of California, a coalition of more than 66,000 law enforcement members, and $ 5,000 from the prison guards at the California Correctional Supervisors Organization.
Two murderers escaped from a maximum - security prison in New York more than a week ago, and authorities are still searching for them.
As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.
More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.
The Liberal government of Ontario has questioned the bill's price tag, saying it will unnecessarily cost the province more than $ 1 billion due to an expected influx of new prison inmates in the provincial prison system.
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP)-- A central Indiana man convicted of robbing a bank and shooting at a responding police officer has been sentenced to more than 92 years in prison.
A 49 - year - old Wilton man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Tuesday for using hedge - fund money for his own personal use as part of a $ 6 million - plus Ponzi scheme.
Generally, the military is required to report felony - equivalent court - martial convictions for crimes that are punishable by more than one year in prison, and any convictions for domestic violence.
He has also initiated programs in more than 1,500 schools, 700 prisons, and 50,000 service organizations and shelters.
Today, it runs more than 60 facilities, from state prisons and jails to federal immigration detention centers.
A U.S. hedge fund manager who pleaded guilty in the K1 Group fraud has been sent to prison for his role in defrauding investors of more than $ 300 million.
Wan has reportedly spent more than ten years in prison for various crimes, including leading the «14K» triad group in Macau.
It's also part of Hermitage Capital, an investment fund that was being investigated by Magnitsky (the Russian lawyer who was killed in a Moscow prison in 2009) more than 10 years ago.
If convicted, the brothers could serve more than 25 years in federal prison.
The average job at the Hawesville plant pays $ 23 an hour — $ 10 or more an hour than the jobs that their friends who have been laid off from the smelter have found in furniture factories, prisons and lawn care services.
In total, Molony embezzled more than $ 10 million, a crime which netted him six years in prison.
I hate prison even more than de death penalty.
And what I heard more than anything else from those in the firing line were pleas for more cops and for more prisons because they wanted more safety.
Black men were also found to be over three times more likely to be arrested than white men, and in prisons black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) males are almost five times more likely to be housed in high security for public order offences than white men.
I'm certainly willing to assume that this reflects racially targeted policing that sweeps up more black crime than white crime and a judicial system more likely to send blacks to prison than whites.
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