Sentences with phrase «than a prison state»

He added: «As President Trump has said, the cruel dictatorship of North Korea is little more than a prison state.

Not exact matches

THE state government has revealed the final cost of its contract to redevelop the Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison is $ 140 million higher than what had been announced.

With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.

The report found the US to be holding 2.3 million people in more than 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, and 3,163 local jails, among other detention centers.

Today, it runs more than 60 facilities, from state prisons and jails to federal immigration detention centers.

The disparity is also reflected in the nation's prison population: According to the International Business Times, black Americans are more than five more times likely to be imprisoned than whites, and in 11 states, blacks represent more than half of the prison population, in spite of the fact that more than three - quarters of the nation is made up of white Americans.

Surely Charles Manson, Gary Gilmore and the other former and present inmates of state prison Death Rows — there are presently more than 300 Death Row occupants nationwide — can not be compared with Jesus.

If we took more of an interest in the making of our foreign policy, usually for the profit of our corporate overlords rather than for the safety of the American people, maybe we would know why, when bringing the lamp of liberty to the darker places of the earth, the United States invariably chooses for its allies the despots who operate their countries on the model of a prison or a jail.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that crowding at California prisons constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, and ordered the state to reduce the number of inmates by more than 30,000.

ONITSHA — A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity of the Department of State Services, DSS.

Are Norwegian prisons more effective than United States prisons?

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has granted pardon to no fewer than 71 convicted prisoners in the prisons in the sState has granted pardon to no fewer than 71 convicted prisoners in the prisons in the statestate.

The act stated that if any person or persons «shall wantonly and cruelly beat, abuse, or ill - treat any horse, mare, gelding, mule, ass, ox, cow, heifer, steer, sheep, or other cattle» they would be fined a sum «not exceeding five pounds, not less than ten shillings»; failure to pay the fine would result in a prison sentence of up to three months.

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

The union representing New York correction officers says new security methods are needed to reduce the amount of contraband smuggled into state prisons, while prison officials say more prohibited items are being seized than ever before.

In Oregon, the company took state aid to create jobs — then hired prison labor for less than $ 1 an hour.

The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said this week that the number of incidents involving contraband at the state's 54 prisons more than doubled over the last decade, from 2,540 incidents in 2008 to 5,231 incidents last year.

The federal government began contracting with private prisons in 1997, more than a decade after states started using them.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The union representing New York correction officers says new security methods are needed to reduce the amount of contraband smuggled into state prisons, while prison officials say more prohibited items are being seized than ever before.

Prosecutors pushed for a prison sentence of at least 15 years, which would have been longer than the 14 years that former Brooklyn State Assembly Member William Boyland received Sept. 2015.

Governors know more about what works in prison than secretaries of state.

If Nigeria has a lower prison index than United States of America, United Kingdom and most developed jurisdictions, it simply means that Nigeria is one of the safest countries to live or that alternatively those who commit crime are not being properly investigated and prosecuted.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

One of the themes of the case was that if people knew the full state of affairs in prisons they'd be angrier than they already are.

Overtime for State Police and the state prison system surged 64 percent in June and July — an increase of more than $ 1 million a day — compared to the same period in 2014 because of a three - week manhunt for two escaped prisoState Police and the state prison system surged 64 percent in June and July — an increase of more than $ 1 million a day — compared to the same period in 2014 because of a three - week manhunt for two escaped prisostate prison system surged 64 percent in June and July — an increase of more than $ 1 million a day — compared to the same period in 2014 because of a three - week manhunt for two escaped prisoners.

In 2015, almost 11 percent of 4,205 incoming inmates at state prisons had hepatitis C, with more than half of them identifying as injection drug users, according to Joanne Morne, director of the state Health Department's AIDS Institute.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has said there is a «crisis of corruption» at the state Capitol in Albany, had asked Caproni to send Silver to prison for longer than any other previous New York state lawmaker convicted of public corruption, which would be at least 14 years.

Skelos, the 68 - year - old former Senate Republican majority leader, was sentenced to seven years less in prison than former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a 72 - year - old Democrat, sentenced May 3 to 12 years in prison for pocketing about $ 4 million in kickbacks.

Prosecutors in former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's public corruption case have asked for him to be sentenced to prison for longer than any other state legislator guilty of public corruption.

«Any expectation that you're going to put a 16 - year - old or 17 - year - old in a state prison and you're going to rehabilitate them or you're going to teach them, or they're going to come out better than they went in is wholly unrealistic.»

The disgraced former No. 2 man in the state Senate will dodge prison time because he has less than a year to live, according to new court documents.

More than 200 members of the clergy from around New York state are writing to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to raise the age of criminal responsibility so fewer juvenile offenders end up in adult prisons.

According to the Associated Press, Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats have agreed to count more than 46 thousand of the state's roughly 58 thousand prisoners in their last known address, and not in the prison where they are being held.

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

(And note that Alan will be making more in his THREE state - paid pensions sitting in prison than most New Yorkers make working THREE jobs!)

The organisation stated that no fewer than 300 Nigerians were currently on death row in prisons across Asian countries since 2016.

Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to at least 12 years in prison, following his conviction on eight counts of public corruption charges, and asked that Skelos» son, Adam, be sentenced to more than 10 years.

He was sentenced on May 3 to 12 years in prison for tapping into his extraordinary influence over state government to enrich himself, ordered to forfeit more than $ 5 million from his criminal proceeds, and fined an additional $ 1.75 million.

Disgraced former state Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith was scheduled to turn himself in last week so he could begin his seven - year jail sentence on corruption charges, but he got his surrender date pushed back more than six weeks by claiming that he must be checked for prostate cancer by his own doctor before prison, court papers show.

I closed more prison cells than any governor in the history of the state!

The programs costs, on average, about $ 17,000 per child per year — significantly cheaper than the nearly $ 300,000 the state spends to house a child in a limited - security prison, the mayor has said.

After serving less than one year in state prison, former Rye Golf Club Manager Scott Yandrasevich, who was convicted of grand larceny and falsifying records in August 2014, is out on parole.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Prosecutors want disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to spend at least 14 years in prison — more than any jail term given to other convicted New York state legislators — for his conviction on corruption charges, according to papers filed in federal court Wednesday.

Alarm is spreading once again about the state of UK prisons, with reports that more than 15,000 assaults were committed by prisoners in 2013 - 14.

A little more than a week after powerful former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison, his one - time State Senate counterpart learned today that he'll be doing time, as well.

In the court documents, prosecutors said that a range of 22 to 27 years in prison would not be «unreasonable» and asked the federal judge to impose prison time «greater than any sentence imposed on other New York state legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

The state has closed more than a dozen prisons under Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but the facilities have been difficult to reuse or sell on the open market.

New York State spends more than it takes in but prison operations are not the villain.

Legal experts said if the story is true, than Weiner could be exposed to a slew of state and federal charges — including one that carries a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison.

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Monday to sentence former state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos to at least 12 years in prison, following his conviction in February on eight counts of public corruption charges, and asked that Skelos» son, Adam, be sentenced to more than 10 years.