Sentences with phrase «new convicted felons»

The mechanism through which Mr. Cuomo plans to do so is unusual: He would consider pardons for all 35,000 people currently on parole in New York, as well as any new convicted felons who enter the parole system each month.

Not exact matches

Ineligible voters (including convicted felons) are included in these measures but the figures also indicate there is plenty of potential to engage new, eligible voters.

First, it has to be shocking for former Congressman Turner, a well - respected and articulate Republican spokesperson to allow a convicted felon to sit in defense of his claim to being the new chair of the Queens GOP.

Freddie Dean Smith, a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal record and former Assistant Superintendent in New Rochelle, was granted an administrative license by NYSED while he was then on probation after a felony conviction for endangering a police officer in Virginia and while awaiting sentencing on two separate sex crimes in South Carolina (he followed women around in stores with his penis hanging out of his pants while he masturbated).

Other potential reforms explored by the report and enacted in some states, though not New York, include online voting, pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds, «vote - by - mail,» and re-enfranchising convicted felons.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) will be granting all convicted felons in the state who are on parole a pardon, a move that will restore voting rights to more than 35,000 people.

The City Council passed two bills last week to ensure that New York remains a sanctuary for illegal aliens — even if they're violent, convicted felons, known gang members or...

«Organizations like the New York State Correction Association, who advocate solely on inmates» behalf, continue to conduct biased research based on interviews with convicted felons whose credibility certainly can be questioned,» Miller said.

It doesn't appear that state law would have stopped him, as New York has no direct prohibition on convicted felons lobbying.

He has a female parrot named Fred, a job digging graves, parents addicted to saving animals, dreams of becoming a vet and a new girl he wants to meet.Del is also a convicted felon.

Bellwether Prize Winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel is the fiercely imagined story of a woman struggling to navigate an America of a not - too - distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed - their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crime - and then released back into the population to survive as best they can.

This past Thursday, Ms. Knaan helped introduce new state legislation, AB 243, into the California Assembly — this bill would allow a judge to bar a felon convicted of animal cruelty from owning animals for a certain period after their release.

Americans are split on whether convicted felons should be allowed to vote, according to a new survey by FindLaw.

Long since deposed from his powerful position as speaker of the New York State Assembly, convicted felon Sheldon Silver was finally disbarred this week by a state appeals court... → Read More: Now Officially Disbarred, Length of Prison Sentence Only Outstanding Question for Convicted Felconvicted felon Sheldon Silver was finally disbarred this week by a state appeals court... → Read More: Now Officially Disbarred, Length of Prison Sentence Only Outstanding Question for Convicted Felon Sfelon Sheldon Silver was finally disbarred this week by a state appeals court... → Read More: Now Officially Disbarred, Length of Prison Sentence Only Outstanding Question for Convicted FelConvicted Felon SFelon Silver

The resulting story the local newspaper actually ran was not about the new coach who starts on Monday, it was about how the university hired a convicted felon and registered sex offender as the new woman's soccer coach and was scheduled to start on Monday.