Sentences with phrase «penitentiary on»

The National Park Service marked the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Alcatraz federal penitentiary on Thursday with an exhibit of recently discovered photographs of the prison's final day on March 21, 1963.

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But since 2008, the 43 - year old founder of the pest control company Bugs Are Gone has been visiting both state and federal penitentiaries, mentoring people on how to become business owners.

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.

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»).

When the ACLU approves of a Baptist Bible college in a state penitentiary, you know there is something extraordinary going on.

«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.

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.

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

The pair also likes to play pranks on their teachers as a way to cheer up their fellow students at their penitentiary - like school.

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.

«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.

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.

San Francisco, CA — Chinese artist and rights advocate Ai Weiwei will create a new body of site - specific artwork on Alcatraz Island, the notorious former federal penitentiary in the center of San Francisco Bay, now a national park welcoming more than a million visitors annually.

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.

Installed across four locations on Alcatraz and on view from September 27, 2014, through April 26, 2015, the exhibition is inspired by the island's layered history as a 19th - century military fortress, notorious federal penitentiary, significant site of Native American history, and now one of America's most visited national parks.

Visit Alcatraz: 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 18 month occupation by Indians of All Tribes which saved the tribes.

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.

Neatly limned ink drawings from 1981 declare the concepts on which his retro - Modernist, grid - based paintings have been based: they are schematic renderings of prison cells that represent modern systems of dwelling, technology and communication as a vast, interconnected penitentiary of consciousness.

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.

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.»

The concern about health effects reached a new pitch in 2011 when the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture unequivocally concluded that «solitary confinement is a harsh measure which may cause serious psychological and physiological adverse effects on individuals regardless of their specific conditions», and that the practice is «contrary to one of the essential aims of the penitentiary system, which is to rehabilitate offenders and facilitate their reintegration into society».

-- On September 11th, 13th, 14th and 15th, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) will be before the court challenging the solitary confinement regime in Canadian federal penitentiaries.

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.

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.

CSC has many qualified speakers available to speak on a variety of topics including penitentiaries, rehabilitation and programs, Aboriginal offenders, women offenders, mental health and reintegration.

On 7 August 1878, a man named Oo - pie - too - kah - han - up - ee - weyin, also referred to in the court file as «The Pondmaker» swore an Information accusing another man of stealing his horse.1 «The Pondmaker» of this court case was surely the man now known to us as Poundmaker (Pihtokahanapiwiyin), headman of the River People, spokesperson at Treaty 6 negotiations, one of the most prominent First Nations leaders of his generation, and one of the chiefs convicted of treason - felony in 1885 and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.2

«If you get the fruits of the crime, then obviously restitution is appropriate, but in this case, because she got nothing, she has nothing and chances of repaying it are negligible and she was receiving a penitentiary sentence on the scale of large - scale fraud,» he says.

To take on a position as a Correctional Officer in a large penitentiary or reformation facility