Sentences with phrase «of being in a prison»

In another, he explains to a nurse that being in a home reminds Jorge of being in prison — something Courtenay has already pointed out between flashbacks.

Creators Ben Katchor describes his work, which includes a regular strip for Metropolis magazine and his recent book Hand - Drying in America and Other Stories, as «a form of social activism» and adds, «You could blow things up too, but I don't really relish the thought of being in prison.

Even the thought of being in a prison cell can be overwhelming.

As it stands, we now have Aboriginals entering prisons with no prior mental health issues or drug addictions but leaving with mental health issues, drug addictions and the stigma of being in prison, no matter how small the offence.

But the impact of being in prison can be severe — not just for the individual but also for their family and the whole community.

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«I wasn't a part of this museum when it first opened and I wondered, «who in the world would want to visit a prison?»»

«Prison is so ingrained in our society,» says Buari, who wears a black fedora and diamond studs in his ears, «that it will never go out of business.»

More than 60 % of the people in U.S prisons are people of color.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The item in the center, wooden handle with leather strap, was used to inflict corporal punishment by whipping across the back of a convict.Courtesy of the Texas Prison Museum

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.

If the judges decide to launch court proceedings, the Catalan politicians could be arrested and, if found guilty of rebellion, punished by up to 30 years in prison.

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

VICE is blacking out its websites as part of a campaign to free a journalist unjustly held in a Turkish prison.

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.

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has not yet decided where Tsarnaev will go, but he is likely end up in one of two high - security detention facilities, Colorado's ADX or Indiana's Terre Haute, according to U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz.

The details are disturbing, as Harkov wrote: «Terrorists who have been sentenced to three to five years in Israeli prisons receive the average income of a Palestinian, about $ 580 per month.

In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»)

Tyler — a Grateful Dead fan with a history of mental illness — was sentenced to life in prison for selling LSD to a police informant.

Simply possessing any amount of heroin is punishable by a minimum $ 1,000 fine and up to a year in prison for a first offense; by a third conviction, that rises to a minimum of three months in jail (and potentially up to three years) and a minimum $ 5,000 fine.

The open plan supposedly cuts down on the prison - like environment of the cubicle, suggesting a collaborative environment in which everyone can see their fellow workers and feel like they're all part of the same effort.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

On one of Branson's last days at school, his headmaster is reported to have told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

Here are 8 of the most impressive helicopter escapes in which the convicts were not immediately caught after breaking out of prison.

In other words, I was risking an unlikely and temporary 3 or 4 for a probable and permanent 9 or 10, and I could easily recover my baseline workaholic prison with a bit of extra work if I wanted to.

Marco Muzzo, grandson of the company's founder, the late Marco Sr., was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February 2016 for impaired driving causing death.

Since his release from prison in 2012, the former CEO of Tyco International has been quietly working to rewrite his legacy.

In his town, six kilometers from the prison site, fears were largely superseded by the attraction of jobs.

The negative thought of «You'll never be able to accomplish anything stuck in prison» was replaced with «Actually, I can.

I was able to accomplish great things while in prison, including writing my first book, learning Korean and getting in the best shape of my life.

«We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison,» said Stuart Jones, the top US diplomat for the Middle East.

He had been in and out of prison for years and he killed himself in 2012.

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.

In late 2005, they had read a New York Times article about a man who had been exonerated of a crime after serving 18 years in prison only to then be arrested again for murdeIn late 2005, they had read a New York Times article about a man who had been exonerated of a crime after serving 18 years in prison only to then be arrested again for murdein prison only to then be arrested again for murder.

In March 2013, two inmates were lifted on a hijacked helicopter from a prison north of Montreal.

Demographic data from the new survey shows that on average, prisoners of color were slightly overrepresented in solitary confinement when compared with the overall prison population.

Construction and contracting giant Leighton Holdings announced today that its John Holland subsidiary has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of the Ravenhall Prison in Melbourne, for an undisclosed amount.

He's on trial before a special court reserved for members of government and faces two years in prison if found guilty of failing to reduce the size of the banking sector.

Salman was convicted of conspiracy and securities fraud charges arising from insider trading and sentenced in 2014 to three years in prison.

OTTAWA — Mandatory balanced - budget legislation, interprovincial booze runs, public sector bashing and lifetime prison terms are among a grab bag of populist Conservative promises in a mid-mandate policy makeover.

Dotcom spent most of the year battling extradition efforts to the United States, where he could serve 20 years in prison for running his Megaupload service, but so far, he's managed to beat — or least stave off — the rap.

Scopo was convicted of racketeering in 1986, and sentenced to 100 years in prison.

The cases of the Angola 5 — a group of men who failed to escape from the maximum - security prison and killed a guard in the process — have caught the attention of Louisiana lawmakers who are studying the costs of capital punishment in their state.

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.

But her experience of suffering, largely in silence, was hardly unique among the 28,000 troops who have served at the U.S. military prison since it opened in 2002 to indefinitely detain captives in the «war on terror.»

US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high - ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the «right hand man» of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.

The case was the subject of «Serial,» the first spin - off from «This American Life,» and went on to be a sensation, with listeners debating whether or not Syed was in prison for a crime he did not commit.

For security reasons, the proceedings are being held in the gymnasium of the Skien Prison in southern Norway where he is currently imprisoned.