Sentences with phrase «penitentiary for»

However, Justice Monnin stated:»... it would be inappropriate... to give up on the accused and park him in a penitentiary for an additional period of time on the basis of his partial FAS diagnosis.»

Would it really be so bad to let a judge decide whether pathetic Leroy Smickle deserves something less than three years in the penitentiary for his choice of social media prop?

«Alias Grace» is based on the true story of a poor Irish immigrant, housemaid Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), who is locked up in an Ontario penitentiary for double murder.

Painfully realistic portrayal of one mother's struggle to raise her child in a penitentiary for women.

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

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On one morning late this spring, dozens of inmates at Solano State Prison in Northern California scurried around the penitentiary's gym, ready for a life - changing day.

In the penitentiary, guards usually reward inmates for such extraordinary services with packs of cigarettes, bags of sugar (to brew «mash»), hardcore pornography or even drugs.

At the turn of the century, according to Suzanne Schlosberg, author of The Ultimate Workout Log, primitive stair machines were used for punishment in federal penitentiaries.

Oddities tended to attract an undue share of public attention: there was amusement over the King and Queen of England eating hot dogs while visiting President Roosevelt at Hyde Park; outrage when the President changed the date of Thanksgiving from November 30 to November 23; excitement when Al Capone was released from a federal penitentiary after serving more than seven years for income tax evasion.

Runners from outside the penitentiary are invited onto the prison grounds for this event to participate alongside the inmates.

The county rejected a request by Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney for $ 100,000 more to build a $ 350,000 dog kennel to match stray dogs with inmates at the Jamesville penitentiary.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The fight for a $ 350,000 dog shelter at the Jamesville penitentiary is featured in the most recent episode of «Pit Bulls and Parolees» on Animal Planet.

«We believe people who ask for forgiveness of sin and redeem themselves should get a second chance, and 20 years in the penitentiary is time enough to come to grips with getting your redemption and forgiveness,» the outgoing Republican governor said on Fox News.

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

Throughout Hare's eight - month stint at the penitentiary, Ray persuaded Hare to endorse him for various plum prison jobs, including the auto shop, which led to a chilling send - off for Hare when he left to finish his doctorate degree at the University of Western Ontario.

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

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

Instead he assails his «recruit's» apartment with a military tactical team and he offers him the choice of cell time in a penitentiary to pay for his past misdeeds or a chance to serve his government overseas.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Michael Jai White Stars in Straight - to - Video Street Fight DVD Drama After Isaiah Bone (Michael Jai White) is paroled from the penitentiary he has a hard time finding a legit line of work so he can provide for his loyal and patient wife, Tamara (Nona Gaye).

But because she had recently violated a section of the law that forbids lobbyists from sending people on expensive junkets (something about paying a congressman to go on an «educational» tour of Indonesia regarding taxes on palm oil), she is called up for a Senate hearing led by Senator Ron M. Sperling (John Lithgow), who is in the pocket of the gun people and seeks to send her to a federal penitentiary.

The film itself is an adaptation from the real life experiences from Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun whose services included spiritual guidance for Death Row inmates in Louisiana's state penitentiary.

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.

When people hear that I taught language arts for 10 years in a New York county penitentiary, they assume it was a tough job because kids in jail are uninterested in learning.

When I go on a group tour of the decommissioned Crumlin Road jail, a sprawling Victorian penitentiary, our guide is charming — but he also makes it clear that he will not go near certain topics, for fear of starting a fight.

Vick remains indefinitely suspended, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has not said whether he will reinstate Vick after his July release from the federal penitentiary in Kansas where he is serving a 23 - month sentence for a dogfighting conspiracy.

The state statute is very similarly worded, but allows such acts to be treated as a felony calling for imprisonment of up to one year in a county jail or up to five years in a state penitentiary and / or a fine of up to $ 500.00.

«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.

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.

The island is famous for being a federal penitentiary.

Alcatraz, best known for the historic federal penitentiary and occupation by the Indians of All Tribes, also has a long tradition of welcoming artists to provoke thought about freedom and incarceration.

For this exhibition, internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei created a new body of work specifically for Alcatraz, responding to the island's layered legacy as a 19th - century military fortress, a notorious federal penitentiary, a site of Native American heritage and protest, and now one of America's most visited national parFor this exhibition, internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei created a new body of work specifically for Alcatraz, responding to the island's layered legacy as a 19th - century military fortress, a notorious federal penitentiary, a site of Native American heritage and protest, and now one of America's most visited national parfor Alcatraz, responding to the island's layered legacy as a 19th - century military fortress, a notorious federal penitentiary, a site of Native American heritage and protest, and now one of America's most visited national parks.

In the first gallery hang Eggleston's more widely known photographs; the second displays photographs by other photographers working in (or on) the South; and the third gallery is reserved rather irrelevantly for Deborah Luster's project from 1998 entitled One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, in which she photographed inmates from three penitentiaries, printed their portraits on aluminum plates and locked up the plates in a steel cabinet.

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.

They're all looking for a way out of the denialist penitentiary they've been put into by the Tea Party.

Writing for five members of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Mr. Justice David Doherty concluded his pure and unassailable legal analysis by finding that «the cavernous disconnect between the severity of the offence as described in my reasonable hypothetical and a three - year penitentiary sentence is determinative of the s. 12 analysis.

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.

For those who might succumb to a vagrant thought as to how Bernardo, ensconced in penitentiary having been convicted of heinous crimes, has the temerity, and, is permitted, to assert rights both in this court and in the court below, it is to be remembered that the issue here is the quality of those rights rather than the quality of the litigant.

Section 81 of the Act allows for agreements to transfer care and custody of an Aboriginal offender who would otherwise be held in a federal penitentiary to an Aboriginal community facility.

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This page contains CCLA's key legal materials, previous work, key decisions, and press for our constitutional challenge of the solitary confinement regime in federal penitentiaries.

If an offender is sent to jail for two years or more, they will go to a federal penitentiary, such as the Kingston Penitentiary.

Over approximately a week, small groups of 15 to 25 judges would visit a variety of prisons and penitentiaries, from maximum security Millhaven to the Napanee Detention Centre, to the Prison for Women, and to halfway houses.

He also worked for the Correctional Law Project, providing representation to inmates of federal penitentiaries at their internal tribunals, and also with a wills and estates litigator in Kingston to help prepare for two trials.

In the context of addressing the conventional sentencing framework, Justice Green said this about Crown counsel's submission, at para. 59: «On an orthodox range - driven assessment, the nature of the drug and the amount here implicated would ordinarily call for a penitentiary - length disposition, if one towards the lower end.

Correctional Officers escort arrested individuals, who wait for their trial dates in jails, penitentiaries or other types of facilities.

This Centre provides residential therapy for men and women referred from Aboriginal communities, and from prisons and federal penitentiaries.