Sentences with phrase «than prison sentences»

Viviane Morales explains why truth and repentance will heal the scarred South American nation more than prison sentences for FARC rebels.

«We can help disrupt the supply of this poison that is killing people at an alarming rate,» Flynn said, adding that those suffering from opiate addiction who commit non-violent crimes such as petty larceny will receive treatment rather than a prison sentence.

Not exact matches

«Most people are in prison because they didn't know how to make enough money legally,» says Jackson, who has more than a decade left in his sentence at Green Haven.

Though this new policy wouldn't affect people like Tyler who had already been sentenced, Holder's announcement gave Tyler renewed hope that his more than 20 - year - long stint in prison would actually end.

Wire fraud carries a possible sentence of 20 years in prison, and nearly 90 % of those convicted of securities fraud in 2015 did an average of more than four years of prison time.

Canada is no more compassionate than the U.S., the CEOs believe, and Canadians certainly wouldn't complain if lengthier prison sentences were handed down.

Of that number, about 4,000 were sentenced to prison — nearly all of them for less than three years.

Martin Shkreli can be held responsible for $ 10.4 million in losses when he's sentenced for defrauding investors, meaning the man more commonly known as «Pharma Bro» could face more prison time than he initially expected.

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.

He was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP)-- A central Indiana man convicted of robbing a bank and shooting at a responding police officer has been sentenced to more than 92 years in prison.

A 49 - year - old Wilton man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Tuesday for using hedge - fund money for his own personal use as part of a $ 6 million - plus Ponzi scheme.

Judge Baugh sentenced Rambold to 30 days in prison, saying that the girl, Cherice Moralzez, was «as much in control of the situation» as her teacher was and that she was «older than her chronological age,» whatever that even means.

Last week, Denhollander became the last of more than 150 survivors — all women and almost entirely former gymnasts — to share her impact statement in court with Nassar, who was convicted of seven counts of first - degree criminal sexual contact last fall and sentenced to up to 175 years in prison last week.

The Sentence has to be carried out by the end of the day and no sentenced prisoners can stay in the prison for longer than two days.

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN)-- Israel's government approved an extraordinary deal Tuesday night - agreeing to release more than 1,000 Palestinians from prison, including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis, in exchange for a single slender young Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.

World Watch Monitor said the family is among more than a dozen Christians who were given prison sentences of between 10 and 15 years for «acting against national security».

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP)-- A former union president in northwest Iowa has been sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling more than $ 95,000 from the organization.

This story illustrates the importance of play more than most: In studies of sociopaths stuck in prison with life sentences, NONE of them had healthy play histories.

The memo, which was circulated to prison governors on November 26th, reads: «The criminal casework directorate (CCD) of the Border and Immigration Agency have confirmed to us that as a rule they have no interest in pursuing foreign national prisoners serving sentences of less than 12 months for deportation unless they have a court recommendation for deportation, are already subject to deportation proceedings, or (in the case of non-EEA nationals) were sentenced to less than 12 months but where the current sentence plus one or two previous sentences within the last five years (taking account of the most significant sentences during the period) total 12 months or more.»

Federal prosecutors are calling for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to be sentenced to time in prison longer than any other political figure in recent history.

One change — the scrapping of Indefinite Public Protection sentences — survived and many believe that this is one reason why the prison population is now stable rather than rising rapidly.

More than 300 shops were stopped from selling psychoactive substances, 31 were forced to close, and four people received prison sentences.

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.

Caproni issued her sentence May 3, fining him $ 1.75 million on top of more than $ 5 million in forfeiture and the prison time.

In May 2016, Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced the former Albany power broker to 12 years in prison, fined him $ 1.75 million, and ordered that he forfeit more than $ 5 million in what the prosecution said were ill - gotten gains.

The verdict Friday came more than two years after his first 2015 trial resulted in a 12 - year prison sentence.

The Queens Republican operative convicted of stealing more than a million dollars from the mayor was led off to prison Monday to begin serving a sentence of at least a year.

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.

Apart from that, it seems that if a public worker is sentenced to more than three years of prison he would lose his place and could not apply for a new one after he were released.

William Rapfogel was quietly issued a «merit release» from prison on May 1, after serving less than three years of a 3 - to 10 - year sentence for his role in a multi-million dollar kickback scam while head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.

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.

Green said that in 2010, the Government had «removed more than 5,000 foreign criminals, 43 % by the end of their prison sentence», adding that «where there are barriers to early removal, the agency seeks to detain them to protect the public».

Seminerio had pleaded guilty in June 2009 to taking more than $ 300,000 from Jamaica Hospital administrators to work on behalf of its interests in Albany, and died in January 2011 in the first year of serving a six - year prison sentence in North Carolina.

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

Silver, who was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, was initially ordered to start his jail time in July, but Judge Valerie Caproni agreed to push the date to Aug. 31, to wait for the McDonnell ruling, allowing that it could affect Silver's appeal efforts.

The deliberations, which began Thursday and resumed Friday, come more than two years after Silver's first trial resulted in a 12 - year prison sentence.

The Conservatives, as mentioned, could also adopt much of the policy that the Lib Dems propose, but Cameron has been scathing about forgoing prison sentences of less than six months, and policies like the mansion tax would surely never make a Conservative budget.

«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.»

Former New York Senate leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $ 800,000 in restitution and fines Thursday after his conviction on corruption charges.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, after a federal jury found him guilty of a host of corruption charges related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

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.

A New York concert promoter accused of bilking investors in a Ponzi - like scheme involving Broadway hit shows like «Hamilton» was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay back more than $ 100 million.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

Disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver won't have to turn himself in to begin serving his 12 - year federal prison sentence until Aug. 31, nearly two months later than his originally scheduled date of surrender.

In 2015 the Government pitched an ambitious # 25m project to build a 1,500 bed prison in Jamaica, with the aim of sending more than 300 Jamaican inmates with sentences of more than four years there.

The Conservatives point out one in four offenders is currently released with only a warning or caution, while fewer than one in seven receives a prison sentence.

Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison, after more than 140 women and girls accused him of sexual abuse.