Sentences with word «penitentiary»

In this case, lawyers for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada were asking the Court to end administrative segregation in federal penitentiaries in Canada.

On an icy morning on the industrial outskirts of Buffalo, New York, Billy Brown is released from the state penitentiary after a five - year stint.

Vick served time in a federal penitentiary for his role in unlawful dog fighting activities that were held at his home in Virginia.

His most famous roles are Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown, Dr Clemens, the doctor of penitentiary Fury 161, who becomes Ellen Ripley's confidante in Alien 3 (1992) and the one - eyed hitman Mr Benedict, a villain in Last Action Hero (1993).

The majority of his work is focused on representing people charged with Indictable offences who are facing significant penitentiary sentences as a result of their charges.

Players will explore the depths of the island penitentiary as Batman investigates and realizes that there is more to the henchman uprising than initially meets the eye.

W. T. Root, professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, examined 1,916 prisoners and said «Indifference to religion, due to thought, strengthens character,» adding that Unitarians, Agnostics, Atheists and Free - Thinkers are absent from penitentiaries or nearly so.

Six prisoners in the country's largest (and probably toughest) maximum security penitentiary come to terms with their fate.

Alcatraz Island, home to its namesake famous prison off the San Francisco Bay, welcomed back its last inmates for the 50th anniversary of the closure of one of the most notorious penitentiaries in the world.

Lewis et al. v. Canada (Attorney General) 2015 ONCA 379 Civil Rights — Criminal Law — Statutes Summary: The applicants were 10 federal female inmates, all of whom were non-violent offenders who had been sentenced to a first penitentiary term.

Alcatraz Island offers a close - up look at the site of the first lighthouse and US built fort on the West Coast, the infamous federal penitentiary long off - limits to the public, and the history making 18 month occupation by Indians of All Tribes.

Gangs, hounded by cops and highlighted by politicians, aid their violent members into penitentiaries and poverty.

«The pay raise issue is the most prominent on peoples» minds, but there is also the Amphitheater, the Jamesville penitentiary dog kennel and others,» he said.

A view of buildings at the Rikers Island penitentiary complex.

Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz On the other side of the country, the FOR - SITE Foundation is preparing a show of Ai Weiwei's work inside the former penitentiary on Alcatraz Island.

He has also worked with incarcerated youth at a medium - security state penitentiary where he worked closely with his clients and their families in understanding and managing their mental health issues, changing their family dynamic and home environment, and increasing their support systems within the community.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced an agreement with the Department of Justice that addresses issues raised regarding conditions of confinement at the county's jail and penitentiary complex that arose during the administration of former County Executive Andrew Spano.

His portraits, whether set in the lively streets of Manhattan, the expansiveness of Malibu's beaches and canyons, the timeless elegance of Walden's New England, or the bleakness of San Quentin penitentiary, remind us that there is beauty everywhere.

Kids for Ca $ h (PG - 13 for profanity and mature themes) Pay for play documentary chronicling the shocking 2008 scandal in Wilkes - Barre, Pennsylvania where crooked judges put innocent juveniles behind bars in return for kickbacks from a privately - owned penitentiary in need of inmates.

At a Texas penitentiary, jailed NFL veterans train their fellow inmates for a football game against the guards.

Italian artist Millo recently spent some time in Ukraine where he was invited to create a new mural on a wall of juvenile penitentiary in Kremenchuk for Back to School Ukraine curated by Seth Land and Oleg Sosnov with the support of UNICEF Ukraine and Sky Art Foundation.

Before the opening credits of Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood (1973) roll, a restive camera prowls the corridor of a women's penitentiary once upon a winter's night.

«While the Island is perhaps best known for its legacy as one of the toughest penitentiaries in American history, there is much more to learn during an Alcatraz visit.

San Francisco, CA, May 13, 2014 — Opening September 27, @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will feature a series of seven site - specific installations by artist Ai Weiwei in four locations on Alcatraz Island, offering a new cultural lens through which to experience the notorious military and federal penitentiary turned national park.

The Crown tells the devastated father that it will seek a lengthy penitentiary sentence if he is found guilty after trial — the father will lose his family, his job and a decade of his life.

The individual must first of all break out of the prison in which his own reflection holds him, and if he succeeds, he still does not stand in the open but in the vast penitentiary built by the reflection of his associates, and to this he is again related through the reflection - relation in himself, and this can be broken only by religious inwardness, however much he sees through the falseness of the relation.

This exceptional 1971 edition, showing the iconic chair from a newswire story about the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at New York's Sing Sing penitentiary, conjures the violence of the deadly current through its beautifully hot pinks and yellows.

Maybe put up a state penitentiary there, but a mosque a couple blocks away is an attack on America??? I think the real unamerican people are the conservatives who forget that America is based on the idea that there is no cultural standard, no national religion, and no reason not to provide anyone, of any race or religion the ability to practice his / her faith free from the persecution of others.

Liam turned this into his version of Poor Richard's Almanack, a compendium of practical advice («how to avoid athlete's foot in penitentiary showers») and editorials on the power of positive thinking («it's all about the choices we make»).

The Sentencing Project reports that U.S. penitentiaries held 127,677 lifers in 2004, of whom only a few dozen are paroled each year.

It has filled the future with fear and flame, and made God the keeper of an eternal penitentiary, destined to be the home of nearly all the sons of men.

A project of the State Game and Fish Department, it was built with penitentiary labor and installed under the authority of the New Mexico Secretary of State, who handles such official items as the state's official flower (yucca), official mammal (black bear) and official fish (cutthroat trout).

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in a federal penitentiary Tuesday by a Manhattan judge who called him «a scheming corrupt politician.»

For this stance, he was imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin penitentiary.

You can choose from whatever penitentiary you may fancy.

Spanning sixty years, this is the story of two friends who are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison at a Mississippi penitentiary.

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Two life sentences for a 1947 double murder land an innocent man in a corrupt Maine penitentiary.

In the first, black - and - white entry, Ken - san plays Tachibana, a yakuza underling who's sent to the snowy wastes of northern Hokkaido to do his time at the infamous Abashiri penitentiary, from which escape is supposed to be impossible due to its isolation in harsh surroundings.

Quoted in the trailer, film critic A.O. Scott wrote in his Telluride dispatch on the film: «David Mackenzie's Starred Up is a British prison drama anchored by superb performances from Jack O'Connell and Ben Mendelsohn as a son and father confined in the same penitentiary.

Herman's House DVD Review by Kam Williams Artist and Inmate Forge Unlikely Friendship in Angola Prison Documentary 72 year - old Herman Wallace has been imprisoned at Louisiana's infamous Angola penitentiary since he was found guilty of committing bank robbery back in 1967.

Steve Carell stars as Larry «Doc» Shepherd, who served two years in a Navy penitentiary for a crime that is alluded to throughout the film but never quite explained, though it involved missing morphine and a Marine dying in excruciating pain, so it's not hard to deduce.

After serving a sentence in a youth penitentiary, Chavis Daniels returns to the team with his temper still prone to flares.

Now he and his love interest must find their way off the global penitentiary that swings between arctic temperatures by night and incinerating heat by day.

The movie's title refers to the act of transferring a young offender from a juvenile detention center to an adult penitentiary prematurely, and in the case of 19 - year - old Eric Love (Jack O'Connell), he's been relocated two years early due to the frequency and severity of his violent outbursts.

The Stanford Prison Experiment (R for profanity, sexual references and abusive behavior) Psychological thriller inspired by the 1971 study conducted by Professor Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) in which college students were enlisted to serve as guards and inmates in a mock penitentiary.