Sentences with phrase «number of prison sentences»

Having served a number of prison sentences, Berrigan, with his wife, the former Sister Elizabeth McAllister, has formed a small community of eight adults (and the two Berrigan children)...

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Of that number, about 4,000 were sentenced to prison — nearly all of them for less than three yearOf that number, about 4,000 were sentenced to prison — nearly all of them for less than three yearof them for less than three years.

profit was $ 53.9 million, since corporate prisons make their profits based on the daily number of prisoners, longer sentences are the strategy.

The community sentences were often justified by supporters as a better alternative to the high number of short prison sentences.

Gallivan is slightly off on the numbers, but his claim that few of these cases result in a conviction - and even fewer receive a state prison sentence - is correct.

This is the one area of policy where, curiously, I see the Cameroons veering away from the electorate, taking huge risks on prison capacity, sentencing policy and police numbers.

Does my right honourable friend accept that the millions of people who voted Conservative at the last election in order to make him prime minister did not do so in order to see a reduction in the number of people sent to prison or to see those criminals given softer sentences?

The researchers also analyzed studies exploring the effects of an amendment of the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the add - on sentencing laws adopted by a number of states during the 1970s and 1980s, which added prison time to crimes committed with a gun rather than a less lethal weapon.

The number of false convictions among the death - sentenced has been particularly hard to estimate, Gross says, because many prisoners who are on death row are eventually moved off of it but remain in prison, which often reduces their chances of exoneration.

Results in the simulation almost exactly tracked California figures for the probability of returning to jail based on the number of times incarcerated, the inmate's age upon first being released from prison, the number of months since release, and by the length of the sentence.

I wouldn't trade places with someone on the road to a long prison sentence for financial fraud because of things he said and did on the freakin» internet for 500 million dollars (just to pull a number out of the air).

Shortening on Alcatraz by Nelson Saiers >> Shortening: Making Irrational Rational incorporates properties of the number Pi, prison vernacular and NFL football jerseys to weigh in on the «irrationally» long prison sentences given for minor, nonviolent drug offenses.

An art thief that tried to sell a number of stolen expressionist masterpieces that including paintings by Marc Chagall and Arshile Gorky at well below their market value, has been sentenced to four years in prison, Associated Press reports.

Some judges are very specific and will say: «I will send your client to prison for no more than X number of years» or «I will not send your client to prison,» or «I will sentence the client to jail for up to 365 days.»

More recently I have written about the serious contemporary problem engendered by false accusations which is leading, in a small number of cases, to men and women serving long prison sentences for crimes they almost certainly did not commit.

It was always obvious that a large number of people would be sentenced to indeterminate sentences and placed in a prison system that was already unable to get determinate prisoners through the required programmes in time to be considered by the Parole Board.»

In addition, and perhaps even more statistically important for the very latest federal prison data, federal prosecutors after 2012 began decreasing dramatically the number of cases getting all the way to federal sentencing.

As crime rates and criminal laws spiral upwards, the number of people sentenced to prison has risen nearly threefold over the past 30 years.

After it came to light in 2006 that the Home Office had failed to consider or implement such recommendations in a number of cases, the rules were tightened and deportation became compulsory for non-British citizens over the age of 17 sentenced to more than 12 months in prison, except where it would be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Protection of Refugees.

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.