Sentences with phrase «short prison sentence»

That, who did not appear before the court or not pass drug tests are arrested and are generally imposes a short prison sentence.

After the low of a short prison sentence in 2012, Watford stuck by him and he has repaid that faith through his performances on the pitch.

When Martha Stewart emerged from her short prison sentence in 2005, it was to find that her fortune had increased by $ 200 million.

John Fox, 66, who pled guilty in August to defrauding his wine customers at Berkeley's bankrupt Premier Cru of $ 45 million, got a shorter prison sentence because he paid for sex...

Napo argued courts would be forced to use short prison sentences if no resources are available for community orders.

The community sentences were often justified by supporters as a better alternative to the high number of short prison sentences.

«In particular, short prison sentences that do nothing to tackle the underlying causes of crime are particularly ineffective at reducing re-offending.

Some on the left find themselves cheering at Ken Clarke's plan to ditch short prison sentences, the scrapping of ID cards, the suspension of stop - and - search, the reining in of CCTV and an inquiry into British complicity in the torture of suspected terrorists.

He said the courts were giving short prison sentences because there were not enough alternative punishments, and that he wanted to make community sentences tougher.

Since he gave a speech in the summer in which he said the courts were dishing out too many short prison sentences, he has been portrayed as an arch liberal.

The setup is simple enough: A father (Denzel Washington) gets a free pass from jail in order to convince his superstar son (Ray Allen) to go to a college so he can earn a shorter prison sentence.

The California sentencing law, however, allowed judges to find facts to determine whether a longer or shorter prison sentence was warranted.

«Non-custodial community sentences such as unpaid work, supervision, behaviour programmes, drug rehabilitation, alcohol treatment and curfews are often more effective in preventing reoffending than short prison sentences.

Not exact matches

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.

On January 17, 2017, Obama did just that, cutting short Manning's remaining prison sentence, which allowed her to be freed on May 17, 2017.

Today's ruling decided that Miller v. Alabama can be applied retroactively to minors who had already been sentenced to life in prison in 2012, now giving prisoners the chance to negotiate shorter sentences or even parole.

Most prison reformers would like to see shorter determinate sentencing.

Breno was considered a top talent before injuries, and then his prison sentence, cut short his career.

There were many alternative sentence possibilities for Bruno, short of prison.

«Grayling once said «it's not right that people should walk out of prison from a short - term sentence with # 46 in their pocket and nothing else».

But he suggested that those who reoffend repeatedly, but are only in prison for short sentences, should also form part of the «rehabilitation revolution».

He said jail is different than prison — people are there for shorter terms, either while awaiting trial or on year sentences.

One of the flagship policies of the last few months of the coalition government was the introduction of an additional compulsory one year supervision by the private companies for anyone sentenced to prison for a short period.

There was a short period of declining prison populations from 1981, when fines, community sentences and cautions were increasingly used as alternative punishments.

Prison overcrowding and poor management have been blamed for the limited progress prisoners serving short sentences make towards rehabilitation while in jail, a report has found.

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 film takes place on Christmas Eve in California and deals with a transgender sex worker who just finished serving a short sentence in prison and finds out her pimp / boyfriend cheated on her.

While Lisbeth is serving a short jail sentence, her former guardian, now old and very infirm, treks to the prison to give her some new information about her disastrous childhood.

The sooner we lift the ban on honest posting, the fewer people go to prison and the shorter the sentences are for those who go.

Are you able to point to any possible downside (other than the fact that you will be going to prison once millions of middle - class people learn about the role you have played in supporting the biggest act of financial fraud in U.S. history — that's not a good reason because the reality is that your prison sentence will be a lot shorter if you come clean today than it will be if you do not come clean until after the next price crash)?

I was bemoaning my short sentence on Prison Architect when I was hoping for some hard time.

Celebrating the extraordinary but tragically short life of British playwright Joe Orton, this exhibition explores the points where his interests and career came into contact with issues of crime and justice — including the inventive collages and interventions he made in library books, but for which he was penalised with a six month prison sentence.

The penalties for these crimes range from fines to a relatively short jail sentence to a felony record and a long prison term.

In short, a conviction for a federal crime can result in a lengthy prison sentence, substantial fines and a permanent criminal record, which will make it hard for you to find a job or rent an apartment.

Podgor writes that Madoff received no credit for remorse or pleading guilty, and that his sentence was «grounded in retribution» because Madoff was unlikely ever to exit prison as a free man, even under a shorter sentence.

RT @ClaOntario: How a Canadian man cut short a «surreal» 160 - year U.S. prison sentence https://t.co/zMJf4HjmrI

This article details a federal sentencing from Hawai'i in which Chief US District Judge David Ezra focused on punishment purposes to justify a shorter prison term for a first offender who has undergone extensive sex - offender treatment after a conviction for downloading child pornography.

This means that any offense would be a juvenile delinquency prosecution, which involves a secret trial without a jury, much shorter sentences for the same offenses (that would be served in a juvenile detention center rather than an adult jail or prison if incarceration was ordered), and the sealing of the record of the conviction when you become an adult.

But, as the commentary highlights, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act itself falls short of comprehensive reform (and it includes the prison reform features that this commentary now derides as potentially harmful).

In addition, Grassley's bill ignores the reality that strong federal sentencing guidelines have another valuable byproduct — squeezing cooperation from reticent criminals so they will testify against other criminals, while incentivizing them to plead guilty to lesser offenses to get shorter prison terms...

A plea for a short prison term might end up doubling or tripling the client's next prison term; lawyers may be selling a life sentence on an installment plan.

Raj Rajaratnam asked the Second Circuit on Monday to toss five of 14 insider - trading counts for which he is serving an 11 - year sentence, but a judge at oral arguments said his latest bid for a shorter prison term did not look like something a prisoner who has exhausted his direct appeal would argue in support of a finding of «actual innocence.»

Prisoners who serve short sentences and are not in prison the census day are not recorded.

As a result, programs target the general prison population, exclude people on the short sentences often served by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and result in low levels of access to the kinds of care need.