Sentences with phrase «of a prison sentence»

The comfortable ride makes long distance trips enjoyable, and more of a fun experience instead of a prison sentence with other vehicles.
Instead campaigners are hoping that the threat of a prison sentence will discourage men from uploading the videos in future.
For a lot of people, summer vacations are less a relief and more a scenic version of a prison sentence.
There is also a possibility of a prison sentence up to six months depending on the severity of the case.
And there's also Taiga Saejima, who's nearing the end of a prison sentence in Hokkaido and can feel the effects of what's going down even from where he's located.
The third is a personal emotional reaction; I have sometimes been surprised, even shocked by the consequences of the incentives to plead guilty and by the length of prison sentences given for what (in my naivety) had seemed to me to be relatively minor or accidental offences.
I also found their discussion of rates of imprisonment illuminating: U.S. prison populations have been growing since the 1970's, not, as I had imagined, because of a huge increase in «criminal offending,» but because the length of prison sentences in the U.S. have increased:»... in the USA, people are sent to prison more often, and for longer, for property and drug crimes than they are in Canada, West Germany and England and Wales.»
The poll, commissioned by the League Against Cruel Sports (Lacs), shows that one in seven (16 per cent) are in favour of prison sentences for people who break the law, with almost half, 48 per cent, in favour of people being fined up to # 10,000.
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)...
Surely the point of a prison sentence is so that a person isn't continually punished their entire life for one crime and that they are able to learn from their mistakes and allowed to return to some modicum of normality once they've righted their wrongs.
A corruption sting that led to headlines and the indictments of 50 NYC officials and the business people who bribed them has resulted in only a handful of prison sentences.
Kennedy's concern is that Level 1 sex offenders could drive for the companies seven years after a conviction or the end of a prison sentence under existing state law.
Lord Watson, who served half of his prison sentence, was also expelled from the Labour party following his conviction.However, he continued to sit as a crossbench peer and was eventually re-admitted to the party in 2012.
As Silver faces decades of prison sentencing, Albany is still left to write its own rules.
Despite his ability to decipher Nazi communications and make a significant contribution to the Allies winning World War II, Alan Turing was later arrested for homosexual behavior and was given the choice of a prison sentence or accepting forced hormonal treatments.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Fox)-- Oliver Stone catches up with financial pirate Gordon Gekko (once again played with oily charm by Michael Douglas) in the wake of his prison sentence and the recent Wall Street meltdown for a surprisingly conventional sequel.
Doig claimed he had never been in prison and that he had been attending high school in Ontario at the time, but Fletcher insisted that the records of the prison sentence were erased not to jeopardize the artist's career.
A site - specific installation questioning the duration of prison sentences for minor non-violent offenses
The intent of the Guidelines is to remove judicial bias from the doling out of prison sentences.
Incarceration for those convicted of certain sex offenses does not automatically end at the expiration of the prison sentence.
I'd like lawyers more if the penalty for knowing your client is guilty and still trying to set him free was permanent disbarment nationwide and some kind of prison sentence.
Trial judges often find facts about the nature of the offense or the character of the defendant in determining, for example, the length of supervised release following service of a prison sentence; required attendanceat drug rehabilitation programs or terms of community service; and the imposition of statutorily prescribed fines and orders of restitution.
Politicians from all parties were united in their fervor to expel criminal aliens immediately upon the end of their prison sentences.
But he did not escape the criticism of the Council members, who attacked him for recommending last month that Mr. Liang undergo house arrest and probation instead of a prison sentence.
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) living in Jonah House in what might be described as a ghetto area of the city.
If the person is convicted of Sexual Assault by indictment, since the maximum possible sentence is 10 year's imprisonment, regardless of the actual length of the prison sentence, the SOIRA order will be for 20 years.
Green said that in 2010, the Government had «removed more than 5,000 foreign criminals, 43 % by the end of their prison sentence», adding that «where there are barriers to early removal, the agency seeks to detain them to protect the public».
That suggests the problem isn't the length of prison sentences, but who is who is being sent to prison, King said.
In the work «Issei Sagawa», is a portrait of the notorious Japanese cannibal known for killing and eating a fellow student at the Sorbonne University in Paris in the early 1980s, but is now a free man today following the end of his prison sentence.
Seen like this, there's a certain clinical dissatisfaction to our everyday lives, not unlike receiving, at the end of your prison sentence, a plastic baggie of your meager possessions.
Sagawa is notoriously known for killing and eating a fellow student at the Sorbonne University in Paris in the early 1980s, but is a free man today following the end of his prison sentence.
In California, for a first strike, you may have to serve 85 % of your prison sentence (instead of the normal 50 %).
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