Sentences with phrase «time in prison recently»

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Bharara's office recently won the conviction of former state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), a one - time Senate president who was sentenced to seven years in prison last month, and the indictment of longtime Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), both very high on the food chain of bottom feeders in the Albany trough.

The question lingers at Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, a prison with a history of complaints of official brutality, where the Times recently reported on allegations that an inmate was beaten to death in April by what's known at the prison as the «Beat Up Squad,» and witnesses put in solitary confinement and threatened.

This presents a potential problem for Farghadani, who was recently sentenced to 12 years in prison for drawing a cartoon «insulting» the country's Parliament and leader, as she has only a limited time to appeal that sentence, and now her attorney is behind bars.