Sentences with phrase «of prison sentences for»

A site - specific installation questioning the duration of prison sentences for minor non-violent offenses

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.

Not exact matches

For example, Emirates operates a nonstop flight from LAX to Dubai, where possession of even small amounts of marijuana can carry a four - year prison sentence.

Eastern State Penitentiary has a 16 - foot - high bar graph, showing the dramatic jump in the prison population, due to expanded definitions of crimes and longer, mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses, notes Sean Kelley, Eastern State senior vice president.

If ADX is known as the highest security prison for prisoners not sentenced to death, Terre Haute's death row is «the most maximum security of maximum security,» Dunham said.

«We put this peacenik deadhead in prison for the rest of his life,» she added, «and to me, it just shows how off - the - charts crazy we became about drug sentencing in the»80s and»90s.»

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

Amid a hail of gunfire the helicopter was able to take off from the prison after picking up three prisoners serving decades - long sentences for various violent crimes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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.

Oliver Wood, the director of three Perth - based web development and digital marketing companies, has been handed a 10 - month suspended prison sentence for using his position dishonestly to gain an advantage.

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.

Banned during its initial release in numerous countries, the movie was not only blocked from viewing in Bertolucci's homeland of Italy until 1986 (after a one - week run)-- prints of the movie were also burned and Bertolucci was sentenced to four months in prison for obscenity.

Six guards at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex were sentenced on Friday to prison for the 2012 beating of an inmate that left him with fractured eye sockets and a broken nose.

Following in the footsteps of fellow millionaire celebrity Wesley Snipes, Hill was sentenced to three months in prison and three months home probation for failing to report her income between 2005 and 2007.

Shkreli and his lawyers were hoping for a prison sentence of 16 months or less.

While Burnett said he believes the release of the passwords is ethical, he said he has concerns the release might make him the target of an FBI raid, citing the case of a former Anonymous activist who was sentenced to five years in prison for posting hacked data on the Internet.

Princeton doctoral student Xiyue Wang, who went to Iran to study ancient manuscripts, was arrested in August 2016, accused of spying for the United States, and sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2017.

When rapper Meek Mill was sentenced to 2 - 4 years in prison last week for violating his probation, an outpouring of protest followed the controversial decision, with Jay - Z being one of Mill's most fervent supporters.

A New York state resident was sentenced on Thursday to over 20 years in prison for trying to recruit fighters to join Islamic State in Syria.It is the longest prison term handed out yet to an American convicted of supporting the militant group.

«Mr. Black has never sought a sentence reduction for acceptance of responsibility — a decision that, under the government's own calculations of the Guidelines, cost him fully 21 months in extra prison time.»

Manning, who served seven years in prison for violating the Espionage Act before her sentence was commuted by President Obama in 2017, says she has a tendency to look forward instead of backward.

«As the president of the Korea Ski Association, [Lotte] Chairman Shin Dong - bin was always interested in the Winter Olympics,» the spokeswoman said, adding that Shin's recent prison sentence for bribery would not affect the company's support for the Pyeongchang Olympics.

The House of Representatives, meanwhile, passed «Kate's Law,» which would increase prison sentences for immigrants who re-enter the U.S. after deportation.

The Dec. 20 sentencing of Charlie Shrem, one of the digital currency's most vocal cheerleaders as vice-chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and chief executive of an exchange called BitInstant, to two years in prison for illegal money transfers doesn't help.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

In December, a Singapore court sentenced Yeo Jiawei, a former private banker at the local branch of the Swiss bank BSI, to 30 months in prison for tampering with witnesses and obscuring his ties to Mr. Low.

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.

One of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history, she was sentenced to life in prison for the murders in 2017.

Oregon hedge fund manager Yusaf Jawed has been sentenced to six years in prison for defrauding investors of $ 37 million.

The bill originally proposed a 10 - year jail term and a fine of up to 500,000 ringgit (US$ 128,000) for offenders, but the approved legislation sets the maximum prison sentence at six years.

Those are the words I spoke as a trial judge in 1997 when I sentenced Bobby Bostic to a total of 241 years in prison for his role in two armed robberies he committed when he was just 16 years old.

(Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison in January for securities fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, and a forfeiture order authorized the government to seize a Picasso painting and the sole copy of Wu Tang Clan's «Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.»)

He was sentenced in 1993 to life in prison for smuggling 22 tons of cocaine concealed in fence posts and frozen broccoli for the Cali cartel.

Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart, who has been convicted of helping «terrorist» organisations and sentenced to nearly four years in prison, was awarded a top prize on Thursday by the organisation Cartooning for Peace.

There would be arrests, trials and prison sentences for each of the three men convicted in the arson.

It was a prison sentence for some, such as in the state of Virginia, before this.

October 6, 2012 — The pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, is convicted of aggravated theft for leaking confidential papal documents and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Not the least of alternative sentencing's benefits is that it frees up the prison space we so desperately need to lock up serious offenders who pose an immanent threat to society — and keep them locked up for a long time.

As I explored the farm with my host, Clint Hail of e3 Partners, another Dallas - based ministry, we fell into conversation with Kebe Cummings, a recovering addict, and Mark Carter, who had recently finished a long prison sentence for selling heroin.

Such is the struggle of the family of an American pastor recently sentenced in Iran to eight years in prison for his Christian beliefs.

It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.

Hamed Shafia, his father, Mohammed, and his mother, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, were sentenced to life in prison for murder, with Judge Robert Maranger excoriating their «twisted notion of honor, a notion of honor that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honor that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.»

As for Jeffs» long prison sentence, Brower said that many FLDS members will use it as an example of «martyrdom,» which could ensure that he at least remains a figurehead of the sect.

In Pakistan you can be sentenced to death or life in prison for disrespecting some mythical deity but a cleric can solicit murder in front of hundreds of witnesses and he's ok.

I've seen 18 year old black kids sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling cocaine to adult buyers; these predatory priests should be looking an serious issues of prison time · (measured in decades) while their purple - robed protectors deserved to be confined with them.

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) continues to ramp up its campaign for the release of Iran - born American pastor Saeed Abedini, who remains in prison after being sentenced to eight years for «threatening national security» with his church planting.

The New York Times: Priest Asks to Be Spared Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.&Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.&prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.»

This case concluded that sentencing a juvenile to life in prison was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban of cruel and unusual punishment, saying children had «diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change.»

Avoiding jail, the married father of one was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years.

A leader of a breakaway Amish community in rural eastern Ohio was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for forcibly cutting the beards and hair of community members, Court Clerk Robert Pitts said.