Sentences with phrase «spent decades in prison»

Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, the podcast features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit — some of them having been on death row.

Garo represented Joseph Salvati, one of four men who were framed for a 1965 gangland murder and spent decades in prison.

Those who are today 20 or 30 are today planning how they will live afterward,» said the oligarch - turned - dissident, who spent a decade in prison seen as punishment for his political ambitions.

Not exact matches

The 73 - year - old Boone was convicted in the 1980s in what prosecutors called the «largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history,» spending more than a decade in prison.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the estate of the late Cleve Heidelberg is asking for over $ 100 - million for the five decades he spent in prison

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Jehoiachin gives himself up and the city is spared destruction for another decade; but the young king spends the next thirty - seven years in Babylonian prison until he is finally released in 561 (see Jer.

«We all know that Shelley Mayer learned her brand of politics at the hip of Malcolm Smith and John Sampson, who were convicted of corruption and sent to prison for their crimes, and she has spent three decades in Albany,» said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

stands accused of pocketing nearly $ 4 million illegally and, if convicted, could spend two decades in federal prison.

In the decades ahead there will be pressure to spend more on the essentials - whether that's care for the older generation, equipment for our armed forces, or more prisons and police.

This means they are subject to harsher punishments on repeat offenses, but any time the offender spends in prison is counted within this decade - long span.?

A state Parole Board member appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo married a convicted murderer who spent three - decades in prison, New York City media outlets have discovered.

It's ridiculous that NYC lowlifes who are spending decades in Upstate prisons get counted the population of NYC.

So says Hans Feurer, the septuagenarian Swiss lensman, who has turned his admiration for beautiful women into a genre - defining career, all while embracing his irrepressible wanderlust and hunter's sense of adventure, living a life that is the stuff of literature: over the course of five decades, Feurer was almost crushed by a hippopotamus, spent time in a Malawi prison and lived a high - rolling life while working in advertising at the height of one of London's most fabled decades.

The story is set when former gangster Al Capone is 47 and, having spent nearly a decade in prison, has seen dementia rot his mind with harrowing memories of his violent past coming back to haunt him.

Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state's rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades.

Two of the men spent three decades in prison, while two others died behind bars.

Plaintiff spent several decades in prison for murder, whose conviction was eventually...

Attorney Donald Specter spent more than three decades working to protect the rights of incarcerated people before he finally saw a prison he believed in.

This week, an Illinois man who spent nearly two decades in prison for sexual assault was released after DNA evidence exonerated him.

It is very hard to be released from prison after decades spent struggling to survive wrongful incarceration only to encounter the very real struggle of re-entry into a society that offers very little in the way of rehabilitative or social services.

A Lowell man who spent three decades in prison has been formally exonerated.

Even after a conviction is overturned, exonerees still have to readjust to life outside of prison — to find employment and housing, deal with a criminal record that often doesn't go away even after being declared innocent, and try to get their lives back on track after so many years — not an easy task for those who in many cases have spent decades locked up.

A court has granted bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who spent the past two days in prison after he was convicted of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago.

The criminal justice costs of violence are also high: People who repeatedly commit acts of violence may spend several years or even decades of their lives in prison.