Sentences with phrase «of years in prison»

Other states allow divorce for grounds of incarceration only after the felon has actually served a number of years in prison.

In 1991, Frankie Porter, along with three other co-defendants were sentenced to hundreds of years in prison.

Millions of defendants and their lawyers continue to cooperate with mass incarceration by surrendering their rights, but this amiable cooperation has lead to record numbers of people serving record numbers of years in prison.

Subsequently however, Ernesto Miranda was retried and convicted, and served a number of years in prison.

Tuesday, the HealthSouth founder and the former Alabama governor will stand together before a federal judge, facing the possibility of years in prison for convictions on federal bribery, conspiracy and mail fraud charges.

«By his plea to eight felony charges, Todd Howe has publicly acknowledged that he is a self - admitted fraudster, tax cheat and liar who faces an incalculable number of years in prison,» said Steve Coffey, a lawyer for Aiello, in September 2016.

Former state Sen. George D. Maziarz, facing five felony election law violations and the possibility of years in prison, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation and agreed to pay a $ 1,000 fine Friday in an Albany courtroom.

«By his plea to eight felony charges, Todd Howe has publicly acknowledged that he is a self - admitted fraudster, tax cheat and liar who faces an incalculable number of years in prison,» Coffey said.

only having small quantities of marijuana bring about five a lot of years in prison..

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On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

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.

In an earlier part of my life, I went to prison for two years.

He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of destroying evidence and eight years for each false statement count.

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.

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.

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.

Former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks, has no regrets about her actions, even after serving seven years in prison.

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.

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.

The DOJ press release states that each defendant could face as many as 30 years in prison, a $ 1 million fine, and five years of supervised release, among other penalties.

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

Four in 10 prisoners return to state prisons within three years of release, according to Pew Center on the States.

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.

Wire fraud carries a possible sentence of 20 years in prison, and nearly 90 % of those convicted of securities fraud in 2015 did an average of more than four years of prison time.

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.

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.

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.

With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.

Praljak was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes in 2013 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, nearly half of which had already been served after he surrendered to the tribunal in 2004.

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.

Todd McCracken, NSBA president, said in a statement that with many leading proposals containing «penalties of up to $ 75,000 and 10 years in prison,» small business support for nation wide expansion and implementation of the existing program is likely to decrease.

Venezuela defines treason as conspiring with foreign enemies against the state and proscribes punishment of up to 30 years in prison.

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.

The jury convicted him of the lesser charge of being a felon in possession of a gun, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in state prison.

In addition, the prison reportedly barred any visitors for the two weeks of Chinese New Year, which began on Friday.

Business Insider met with Derrick Twum who grew up in New York in a gang environment and served 14 years in prison because of knife crime.

Croatian police said that a 19 - year - old Croat, whom they described as the owner of webstresser.org, was detained on charges of «serious criminal acts against computer systems, programs and data» that carry a possible sentence of one to eight years in prison.

About 90 percent of the people he's employed in his own business over the years have been through the prison system.

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.

Even though North Korea's participation in the games hogged the spotlight in the lead - up to the event, the suspension of Jay Y. Lee's five - year prison term for bribery has raised questions more recently over chaebol reform in South Korea.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

On March 23, Craiglist preemptively removed its personals section in fear of violating the law, which penalizes wrongdoers with a fine, up to 10 years in prison, or both.

In South Korea, Lee Jae - yong, the vice chairman of Samsung was found guilty of corruption and sentenced five years in prisoIn South Korea, Lee Jae - yong, the vice chairman of Samsung was found guilty of corruption and sentenced five years in prisoin prison.

Late last year a driver in Delhi had been sentenced to life in prison after he had been found guilty of raping a female passenger.