Sentences with phrase «spent years behind bars»

Educating people who have spent years behind bars is just as much about compassion and humanity as it is about effective study habits and good test scores, say their counselors and teachers.

Not exact matches

Notably, one of the drivers whose criminal record went undetected was a convicted murderer who spent 26 years behind bars.

Ferrante's credibility comes from his ex-mafioso status, a conversion to author and motivational speaker that took root during years spent behind bars.

Warmbier spent more than a year in detention after being sentenced for 15 years behind bars for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel to take to his church.

This bigot needs to spend a few years behind bars for his crime.

A few months ago, we shared the story of Ricky Jackson — a Cleveland man who spent 39 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit.

Paul came up through the ranks of bartending before the craft cocktail revival, and spent nineteen years working behind bars in Houston and Las Vegas before arriving in Chicago in 2008.

The chief pilot for the company whose helicopter crashed Sunday in the East River — killing all five passengers — spent more than eight years behind bars for repeatedly stabbing a woman during a Long Island robbery.

The ex-Staten Island congressman, who spent seven months behind bars for tax evasion, is asking an appeals court to turn his disbarment from the federal system into a one - year suspension instead.

«New York State currently spends $ 60,000 per year on every prisoner in our system, and those who leave have a 40 percent chance of ending up back behind bars.

Michael Grimm, the ex-Staten Island congressman who spent seven months behind bars for tax evasion, is asking an appeals court to turn his disbarment from the federal system into a one - year suspension instead.

Haggerty has reportedly rejected a plea deal from Vance that could have required him to spend up to a year behind bars.

Bharara's biggest Wall Street takedown came in 2011, when a two - year investigation of hedge - fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam culminated with the Galleon Group founder being forced to pay $ 150 million and spend 11 years behind bars.

John Herrle will spend the next 1 1/3 to 4 years behind bars after he mistakenly gave his girlfriend, Janice Pasternak, fentanyl instead of cocaine in September of...

Ganim was sentenced to prison and spent seven years behind bars.

Two men who spent 32 years behind bars and the family of a third who died in prison got the settlements.

Convicted FALN leader Oscar Lopez Rivera, who spent 35 years behind bars for his ties to the group, had declined the parade's «National Freedom Award» amidst widespread backlash and sponsor boycotts.

QUEENS — An NYPD officer remained in critical condition Monday, two days after he was shot in the head by an ex-con who had spent five years behind bars for trying to kill someone else, officials said.

Blackwell tried to kill someone in July 2000, for which he spent the next five years behind bars, prison records show.

But he was convicted on a slew of charges, including a conspiracy to overthrow the US government, and spent 36 years behind bars before then - President Barack Obama commuted the rest of his 70 - year prison sentence just before leaving office in January.

If convicted, he could spend 10 years behind bars.

The announcement comes less than a week after a wrongfully convicted Brownsville man, Jabbar Washington, 43, was released from prison after spending 20 years behind bars for a robbery and shooting he didn't commit.

If convicted of assault, he could spend less than one year behind bars.

Naturally, all of those years spent behind the bars and in grueling workouts have made him a man with superhuman fitness powers and a long list of attacks on inmates and prison staff.

This documentary series tells the story of Steven Avery, who spent 18 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit only to be arrested for another crime he claims he didn't commit either.

He then spent 20 years trying to clear his name and not lose his mind behind bars.

He was, albeit of a decidedly infamous variety, since despite being released from jail for his original crime (and never committing a single murder), Peterson would spend 30 of his next 34 years not only behind bars but in solitary confinement.

The lucky ones spend months, sometimes years, rotting behind bars on a cold cement floor.

After all, I was an openly gay former prosecutor forced to serve my time in the same jurisdiction where I had spent years putting violent felons behind bars.

To further put a human slant on the issue which still affects so many in India, One Eighty tells the story of a mother, Vijai Kumari, who spent 20 years behind bars, and her son, Kanhaiya Kumari.

The prospect of spending years, decades, or even the rest of your life behind bars is a terrifying thought.

There has been much buzz circulating recently around the wrongful conviction of Ivan Henry, a BC native who spent nearly 27 years behind bars for a series of sexual assaults he never committed.

The exonerees combined spent 50 years behind bars.

Not even against the people who lied about him in court and caused him to spend 18 years behind bars for a crime he always insisted he didn't commit.

After spending 25 years behind bars, Michael Morton attracted considerable media attention in 2012 when DNA and other evidence cleared him of murder charges.

Evidently federal cases require a more experienced attorney as they are considered more serious and in the event of a conviction, could have you spend many years behind bars.

A man who claims he was wrongly convicted of an alleged racially - motivated murder in 1987 was released from prison Tuesday after spending 30 years behind bars.

These men collectively spent over 600 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit.

TAMPA (FOX 13)- A man who claims he was wrongly convicted of an alleged racially - motivated murder in 1987 was released from prison Tuesday after spending 30 years behind bars.

A Great Falls judge exonerated a man who has spent 15 years behind bars for a murder he said he didn't commit.