Sentences with phrase «to prison»

A retired prison warden, he's seen teachers, parents and grandparents bring kids in to «make sure they never wound up in [a prison].»

«Impropriety in the Texas prison system goes unnoticed by museum visitors, making contemporary inmate battles for human rights seem unwarranted,» she reportedly wrote.

This set off a pattern and rage in him the led him to prison.

Specifically, I chose to stay open to learning in prison, which I did, in terms of the specific subjects I studied and the stuff I learned about myself that I'd never known.

I this all sounds like psycho - babble but I promise you that if you'll commit just one day of your life to go to prison with the team at Defy Ventures you will feel profoundly moved, you will feel deeply human and you will feel the calling to do more.

So, prison was a crushing blow to my life, considering that I'd already changed my life around.

Buari's early days in prison went by slowly, punctuated by bouts of anger and self - loathing.

And yet, even the most high - minded prison museums have tension between mission and show biz.

Texas Prison Museum: a replica of a cell.

A father and son view the electric chair nicknamed «Old Sparky» on display at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas 07 December 2002.

In the meantime, muni experts point out states can renegotiate contracts with servicers, raise fees on things like drivers license renewals, sell assets and privatize prisons and tolls roads to cut expenses and raise cash.

Applying this test, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a Muslim prisoner was free to practice his faith by wearing a half - inch beard that posed no risk to prison security.

They also face up to 20 years in prison.

DuVernay, who had previously directed two docs, didn't need to mull it over: «I knew I wanted to do something about prisons.»

He kept telling me how profound this prison program was and would I meet Cat.

«I wasn't a part of this museum when it first opened and I wondered, «who in the world would want to visit a prison?»»

Buari is the founder of Ryderz Van Service, which he describes as the «Uber of prison visits.»

The star's 21 - month prison sentence was changed to a fine of $ 288,000, and his father was ordered to pay $ 222,000.

«You're crammed in with 14 other people and it's like a prison - wife clique,» says Frye.

«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.

Twenty - nine states have an average of at least two prison museums each, according to Fortune's review of multiple compilation listings — they're run by either governments or non-profits.

«Prison is so ingrained in our society,» says Buari, who wears a black fedora and diamond studs in his ears, «that it will never go out of business.»

The film charts the explosive growth in America's prison population; in 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners; today, the prison population is more than 2 million.

For example, Emirates operates a nonstop flight from LAX to Dubai, where possession of even small amounts of marijuana can carry a four - year prison sentence.

Then, Shkreli went to court, where to his apparent surprise, a judge revoked his $ 5 million bail after a stock fraud conviction last month, and sent him to prison — where he'll wait until at least next January.

Singapore fined eight banks for failing to carry out proper anti-money laundering measures in relation to 1MDB and gave prison sentences to several bankers.

That left me little time or room to get mixed up in prison politics or yard dramas.

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

More than 60 % of the people in U.S prisons are people of color.

The museum, ironically, is not far from the state prison system headquarters and its five facilities housing 9,000 prisoners, including the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville and the state's death chamber, the most active in the country with 537 executions since 2982.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The item in the center, wooden handle with leather strap, was used to inflict corporal punishment by whipping across the back of a convict.Courtesy of the Texas Prison Museum

Once a modest - size Medicaid provider, the managed - care company has expanded quickly — vaulting from No. 453 to 66 on the Fortune 500 in five years» time — and it has done so, in part, by entering markets that rivals have fled (Medicare Advantage, prison health care, the precarious Obama - care exchanges).

LONDON — Prosecutors have dropped charges against two Canadian pilots accused of preparing to fly a commercial aircraft while under the influence of alcohol after their blood samples were mistakenly destroyed at a Scottish prison.

McVeigh was put to death in a federal prison just months before the 9/11 terror attacks.

As I look back, I see how prison taught me more about myself than almost any other experience I've faced.

Fully sealed like a prison, it has strict limitations on access to visitors.

I went to prison due to previous convictions and a fight I was in when I was 22 (six years earlier).

Eastern State Penitentiary has a 16 - foot - high bar graph, showing the dramatic jump in the prison population, due to expanded definitions of crimes and longer, mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses, notes Sean Kelley, Eastern State senior vice president.

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

Called Alcatraz East, the facade will resemble a 19th century prison, and according to a press release, it will house such artifacts as John Dillinger's death mask, Al Capone's rosary, the Bronco from the OJ chase and «items related to the 2012 Benghazi attack.»

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.

He was sentenced to life in prison.

But being in prison also honed his skills as an entrepreneur.

Corporations have reaped profits off the privatization of prisons and prison labor; some prisoners have gotten paid as little as 12 cents an hour, doing work for corporations, like Victoria's Secret and Walmart.

In March, 2011, the President signed an executive order that would «create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security,» commented The Washington Post.

At the end of «Nosedive,» Lacie ends up in prison.

Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, a prison built in the 19th century that housed Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton, has been a museum since 1994.

«I was always disturbed, fascinated, and furious [about]... the prison industrial complex,» she said at a press event.

There are prison politics that are put in place to make sure people treat one other with respect and don't steal, and to weed out the people causing problems on the prison yards.