Sentences with phrase «prison sentences far»

Most prisoners would greatly benefit from structured rehabilitation services to set them on the right path because most prisoners are facing prison sentences far exceeding the nature of the crime.

Most prisoners are facing prison sentences far exceeding the nature of the crime.

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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.

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.

Evans is still without a club having been released early from his five - year prison sentence, but those who've so far showed an interest in signing him have been lambasted widely in the media.

He was released from prison in October after serving half of a five - year sentence, but has so far failed to secure a new club, despite the apparent interest of former employers Sheffield United.

«There is something profoundly wrong when African - American men are still far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than are meted out to their white counterparts.»

Justice spokesman David Howarth said: «For these offenders, effective drug treatment outside prison will have a far greater impact on reducing future crime than short - term prison sentences.

The only other person sentenced so far in the pension fund probe, former Hevesi political adviser Henry «Hank» Morris, is serving 16 months to four years in prison.

Should Illsley be sentenced to less than a year in prison, MPs could pass a resolution in the house expelling him under rules that have only been used in a handful of cases and which officials in the Commons are nervous could trigger further appeals under European human rights rules.

«The record - high incarceration rate in the U.S. has been inflated further by federal prison sentences for people whose only crime is stepping across the border.

Winner of the American Physical Society's 2014 Andrei Sakharov Prize for human rights (which he has thus far been unable to accept), in 2012 Kokabee was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran.

According to the Foundation for Biomedical Research, so far there has been only two AETA convictions: against Alex Jason Hall and William James Viehl, who were recently sentenced to 21 and 24 months in prison, respectively, for releasing 650 minks and vandalizing a fur ranch in Utah in 2008.

Go full throttle in the explosive»80s - themed shooter Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (PS3), snowboard through beloved sports franchise SSX (PS3), annihilate an evil penguin regime in action adventure Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (PS Vita), or escape a million - year prison sentence in Freedom Wars (PS Vita).

That kid has since been sentenced to a year in prison, on charges of computer fraud and obstruction of justice (further charges, of wire fraud and identity theft, weren't part of the guilty verdict).

He ruled that the discs were worth $ 700,000, and sentenced Lundgren to 15 months in prison — far less than the 36 to 47 months called for by federal sentencing guidelines — and a $ 50,000 fine.

Secondly, they allow the EU to defer to regional states as far as the trials and possible prison sentences of captured piracy suspects are concerned, rather than trying them in European courts and detaining them in European prisons.

On the other hand, offenders who would not or could not comply with prison rules and requirements often served sentences far longer than would ordinarily have been imposed given the nature of the offence.

Thanks to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, we have far more elderly people in our prisons than ever before.

Further, the bus driver had been sentenced to eight years in prison back in the 1990s for aggravated criminal sexual assault.

Following release from prison, and subsequent re-arrest and recall to prison due to the apparent abduction of a fourteen year old boy, the applicants were again convicted of various sex offences and sentenced to a further three years in prison.

Not days after disgraced former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison for sexual abuse, a new report has found that the issue goes far...