Sentences with phrase «oldest state prison»

Reidsville is also home to the state's oldest state prison, the Georgia State Penitentiary.

Reidsville is also home to the state's oldest state prison, the Georgia State Penitentiary.

Not exact matches

But since the 1990s, as the U.S. prison population exploded, new, bigger prisons were built — and states looked for a way to repurpose older ones.

Su Bin, a 51 - year - old Chinese businessman, was charged with a prison term of 46 months after pleading guilty to trying to illegally acquire secrets from the United States military.

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

John Sampson, the 51 - year - old former leader of the Democratic conference in the state Senate, was sentenced on Wednesday afternoon to five years in prison for his corruption conviction in 2015.

«At age 67 and after 35 years in prison, Judy Clark is among the oldest and longest serving women in New York State prison,» the letter states.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

While they are the only states that regularly route 16 - year - olds into adult courts and prisons, a total of seven states still try 17 - year - olds as adults and in some cases imprison them with adult inmates.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan suggested he's open to moving 16 - and 17 - year - olds out of state prisons — one of several recommendations pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to raise the age of criminal responsibility.

[Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan suggested he's open to moving 16 - and 17 - year - olds out of state prisons — one of several recommendations pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to raise the age of criminal responsibility.]

The Correctional Association of New York, a prison reform organization, has called for a broad probe of violence in the state's corrections system following the April death of a 30 - year - old inmate at a state facility in Fishkill, Dutchess County.

According to the executive order, the governor — along with the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the Office of Children and Families Services — will transfer female minors and all minimum and medium security classified male teens from state prison facilities where they're housed with the older population to a juvenile facility.

Governor Andrew Cuomo visited a state prison Thursday to announce he's hiring more guards, and to push for a change in how 16 and 17 year olds are treated in the state prison system.

A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Skelos, the 68 - year - old former Senate Republican majority leader, was sentenced to seven years less in prison than former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a 72 - year - old Democrat, sentenced May 3 to 12 years in prison for pocketing about $ 4 million in kickbacks.

«Any expectation that you're going to put a 16 - year - old or 17 - year - old in a state prison and you're going to rehabilitate them or you're going to teach them, or they're going to come out better than they went in is wholly unrealistic.»

New York, NY (AP / WBEN)- A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

«State prisons are no place for a 16 - year old,» he said to applause.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited a state prison Thursday to announce he's hiring more guards, and to push for a change in how 16 - and 17 - year - olds are treated in the state prison system.

The governor said he would seek to block 16 and 17 - year - olds found guilty of a crime from going into state prisons, and would instead attempt to create a separate system for those youth.

Cuomo through executive action in 2015 moved 16 and 17 - year - old offenders to separate prison facilities in the state correctional system.

At 10 a.m., a Long Island man seeking exoneration after he pleaded guilty as an 18 - year - old in 1988 to sexually abusing boys and served 13 years in prison, Jesse Friedman, attends oral arguments in a state appeals court hearing seeking Nassau County DA and police files in the case; 45 Monroe Pl., Brooklyn.

A state appellate court has determined the Board of Parole erred in rejecting a 54 - year - old convict's 2014 request for release when it failed to weigh the significance of the fact that he was 16 when he committed the murder that landed him in prison 37 years ago.

Minors and older prisoners will be separated in New York's state prisons, according to a plan announced by Cuomo.

A federal judge approved a sweeping plan to reduce solitary confinement in New York state prisons, saying she hopes the deal to end decades - old practices becomes a model for other states confronting the harmful effects of extreme isolation.

HARTFORD — The Chief State's Attorney's office asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate 5 - year - old corruption convictions against former Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez — exposing Perez to a prison sentence if the high court agrees.A SuperiState's Attorney's office asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate 5 - year - old corruption convictions against former Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez — exposing Perez to a prison sentence if the high court agrees.A Superistate Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate 5 - year - old corruption convictions against former Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez — exposing Perez to a prison sentence if the high court agrees.A Superior...

She said New York is one of the only states to still sentence 16 - and 17 - year - olds convicted of felonies to adult prisons.

NEW YORK — A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Another major non-spending issue connected to the budget is to treat 16 - and 17 - year - olds accused of crimes to be treated as juveniles, not adults, in the state's court and prison systems.

DA»S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced last week that 24 - year - old Matthew Sindone of Nanuet was sentenced to an indeterminate term of four to 12 years in state prison on his guilty plea to one count of aggravated vehicular homicide, a class «B» felony, relating to the deaths of Neil Block -LSB-...]

The 74 - year - old former state senator who secretly recorded seven elected officials last summer was sentenced to serve one year and a day in prison for a mail - fraud conviction.

He noted current state law makes it nearly impossible to unseal grand jury records, even from old cases like those that resulted from the Attica prison riot in 1971.

The 69 - year - old Scarborough, who resigned from the Assembly in May as part of a plea deal with prosecutors, must also repay $ 54,355 to the state and serve two additional years of «supervised release» once he leaves prison.

Cuomo had also sought to increase the age for younger people who are sent to state prison when convicted of felonies from 16 to 18 years old.

When Senate Republicans balked at raising the age for teenagers accused of serious crimes to be sent to state prison from 16 to 18, Cuomo issued an executive order to remove 16 - and 17 - year - olds from the jails and place them in youth detention instead.

NEW YORK (AP)- A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

He separated the 16 - and 17 - year - olds from adults in state prisons, but he can't, on his own, require that their cases be handled in family court.

DA»S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe this week announced that 34 - year - old Eduardo Najera of Spring Valley was sentenced to 14 years in state prison and 20 years post-release supervision on his March 6, 2017 guilty plea to one count of rape in the first degree, a class «B» felony in connection with the repeated -LSB-...]

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UTICA — A 21 - year - old Oneida County man who fatally shot his 3 - month - old son in front of state troopers has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

It may seem trivial to fight about whose budget resolution gets more attention, but in New York, the spending plans approved in late March often contain non-related policy items, like whether to treat 16 and 17 year - olds as juveniles, not adults, in the state prison system, known as «raise the age», and whether to allow ride hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City.

ALBANY — A 23 - year - old Ravena man was sentenced Friday in Albany County Court to 9 1/3 to 14 years in state prison after admitting that he had sex with a 13 - year - old girl, prosecutors said.

He rejected a request by a defense lawyer for Gonzalez that his client receive two years in prison, like the sentence bestowed earlier this month on 81 - year - old Joseph Bruno, the Republican leader of the state Senate for 13 years who was convicted of two fraud charges.

And we'll be creating facilities designed for those 16 - and 17 - year - olds that will be much more appropriate than a state prison.»

Justice H. A.Nganjiwa of a Federal High Court sitting in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State on Tuesday remanded Yunusa Yellow, the alleged abductor of 14 - year - old Ese Oruru in prison custody.

So by executive action we will take 16 - and 17 - year - olds out of state prisons and put them in separate facilities,» the governor continued.

«Right now 16 - and 17 - year olds are going to state prisons and that, I believe, is an intolerable situation.

Astorino and other county leaders also oppose Cuomo's plan to no longer treat 16 - and 17 - year olds as adults in the state prison system, saying it might cost counties too much money.

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