Sentences with phrase «years incarceration for»

Pham was indeed sentenced to a term of two years incarceration for his participation in drug offences for which he already had a criminal record.

Not exact matches

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), «Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.»

For example, a fairly recent U.S. longitudinal study tracking over 6,400 boys for over 20 years found that children who grew up without their biological father in the home were roughly three times more likely to commit a crime that led to incarceration than were children from intact familiFor example, a fairly recent U.S. longitudinal study tracking over 6,400 boys for over 20 years found that children who grew up without their biological father in the home were roughly three times more likely to commit a crime that led to incarceration than were children from intact familifor over 20 years found that children who grew up without their biological father in the home were roughly three times more likely to commit a crime that led to incarceration than were children from intact families.

However, it is also true that all attempts to charge and convict them of terrorist offences for more than 14 years, including subjecting them to legally questionable interrogation methods, failed to establish credible grounds for their incarceration.

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.

Democrats have been trying to make these changes — which include giving judges more authority in sentencing by repealing the minimums, and developing treatment programs to replace incarceration for new offenders — for years now, but have been stopped in the past by Republicans controlling the State Senate.

In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

Fare - beating busts on the subway have surged in recent years, and so has the number of people doing time for the $ 2.50 crime, making it one of the top charges that has led to incarcerations, a Daily News analysis has found.

At 7 p.m., the organization Stop Mass Incarceration holds a planning meeting for its New Year's Eve march and protest, West Presbyterian Church, 165 West 86th St., Manhattan.

If elected, Mr. Giardina pledged to evaluate current law enforcement programs and policies for interdiction and intervention; support 12 - step programs for addiction recovery; double the number of children and teenagers involved in after - school and sports programs sponsored by schools and faith and community - based groups; establish mentorship, apprenticeship, and internship programs that link East Hampton's youth with year - round homeowners and those who visit seasonally; create a volunteer program for those in recovery to be reintegrated into the job market; triple the number of police, firefighters, educators, and medical personnel trained to administer Narcan, and investigate the establishment of an easy - access residential treatment facility available as an alternative or supplement to incarceration.

Albany, NY — Members of the Independent Democratic Conference delivered for all New Yorkers in this year's state budget — with a measure to Raise the Age of criminal responsibility to end the cycle of mass incarceration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds and meeting the urgent need of New York's immigrant communities with a historic $ 10 million commitment to legal services.

Last year, the Legislature passed a law requiring that prison inmates be counted in their home communities rather than their incarceration address for the purpose of redistricting.

The pair's three - point plan seeks to expedite the 10 - year timeline for closure pledged by the Mayor by implementing aggressive prison population reductions through the siting of new jails citywide and reforming city detention and incarceration practices.

Additionally, Governor Paterson today announced that he has granted clemency to June Benson, who demonstrated extraordinary rehabilitation during her 20 years of incarceration for a crime committed when she was addicted to drugs.

This year, select leaders have returned to call for reform — specifically from Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate IDC Leader Jeffrey Klein — to finally pass legislation against underage incarceration in the state.

Alice Green of the Center For Law and Justice says she has worked for 31 years on issues involving mass incarceratiFor Law and Justice says she has worked for 31 years on issues involving mass incarceratifor 31 years on issues involving mass incarceration.

In the test for which the shorter sentence was used, incarceration rates actually declined from the starting point of 1 % for about the first 5 years and then increased only very slightly, to 0.725 %, for the 50 - year duration.

Aptly named 13th, for the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, this documentary follows the aftermath of the American Civil War for African Americans, and how slavery has only been perpetuated by different practices throughout the years like disenfranchisement and mass incarceration.

It doesn't take long, I think, to work out the associations of the title of Insyriated: we are surely being presented with a variation of «incarceration», one tinged by the very specific context of the conflict that has ravaged Syria for six years...

Director Ava DuVernay may have been snubbed for a Best Director nomination two years ago, but she was duly recognized this year for helming Netflix's searing documentary about mass incarceration of black people in the United States.

In the year after Ava DuVernay's «13th» and Raoul Peck's «I Am Not Your Negro» went to the Oscars and helped reify conversations around mass incarceration and racism and police brutality and white privilege for countless folks, all three of these films continue that work.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

GOP Rep. Paul Muxlow of Brown City, Michigan, reintroduced the bill entitled «Logan's Law» that would bar convicted animal abusers from getting another pet for five years (including post incarceration) and make it mandatory (and free) for animal shelters and other entities to check potential adopters against the Michigan State Police database.

Okay, in truth there really is no substitute for the moving trip to Robben Island, home to the prison that held Nelson Mandela for 18 of his 27 years of incarceration.

Mining her own experiences of visiting her father in prisons for the past 19 years, Smith will present a combined media installation involving video, neon, photographic and textual works to visualize the ways in which an impersonal bureaucratic system of incarceration take effects on the bodies and minds of the extended network of people bound to it.

Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Grant Location: Anywhere This year's Artist as Activist Fellowship provides the opportunity for creative professionals who are committed to moving the dial on mass incarceration, and by extension racial justice, to seek a robust set of resources to advance their work.

The law as drafted forced taxpayers to finance 3 years of incarceration for people who literally pose no threat to anyone: the section would have applied to law - abiding gun owners who happen to step briefly outside the terms of their license in the same way it would to a maniac taking a loaded gun to a daycare center.

Several members of the House are drafting legislation to cut off funding specifically for the incarceration of border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, sentenced to 11 and 12 years respectively.

Teesdale has released a short documentary video in which, on a beach in Guantanamo bay, he explains that hospital worker and teacher Adel Hamad has been held for years in detention and denied release even after a member of the military tribunal reviewing his case called his incarceration «unconscionable.»

It's not a new story: we've known about the high incarceration rate in the United States for many years now.

Compensate exonerated people immediately after release with a fixed sum or a range of recovery for each year of wrongful incarceration.

Under § 505.2, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons determined that, based upon fiscal year 2011 data, the fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates in Fiscal Year 2011 was $ 28,893year 2011 data, the fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates in Fiscal Year 2011 was $ 28,893Year 2011 was $ 28,893.40.

Offences under s. 236 are ineligible for a conditional sentence order under s. 742.1 (b) and (c), as there are mandatory minimum periods of incarceration and, when prosecuted by indictment, the maximum penalty is 14 years or life.

Alternative sentencing for a Class 2 Felony can include terms of probation of up to 4 years, conditional discharge, periodic imprisonment for 18 to 30 months, impact incarceration / boot camp for offenders between the ages of 18 and 35, and fines.

Offences under s. 220 (b), 249.2 and 249.3 are ineligible for a conditional sentence order under s. 742.1 (c), when prosecuted by indictment, as the maximum period of incarceration is 14 years or life.

These 10 have collectively lost more than 60 years to incarceration for crimes they did not commit.

These days, since there is now a right to appeal a criminal conviction under state law or federal statute (but not the U.S. Constitution), a writ of habeas corpus is only brought when direct appeals of a conviction have been exhausted, often several years after the original conviction (which makes a writ of habeas corpus only useful for convictions involving long sentences of incarceration).

[35] While the allegations against the Settling Defendants and non-settling defendants were based upon different allegations of fault, the relief sought was essentially the same: compensation for a wrongful conviction and some 27 years of incarceration.

While there was no benefit to the claimants in their expense-less incarceration — such a concept being «inapt» — there had to be set off to produce the net loss as the claimants would have had to pay for the necessaries of life to earn anything during their lost years.

Of course the consequences for the respondent if the allegations of buggery were made out were serious indeed, long further years of incarceration in prison.

Failure to carry insurance that meets these state - mandated requirements can result in a fine ranging from $ 500 to $ 5,000, depending on your number of previous offenses; the suspension of your driver's license and vehicle registration, for which you will need to provide proof of insurance and pay a $ 500 reinstatement fee to remove the suspension; and potential incarceration for up to one year.

Failure to carry car insurance that meets or exceeds Kentucky's minimum coverage requirements can result in fines of up to $ 1,000, incarceration for up to 90 days, suspension of your license for up to one year, and placement in the «high risk» category of drivers, all of which can significantly increase your car insurance coverage rates.

Some of the most common reasons for having years unaccounted for on a resume many include taking time off to have a baby / raise a family, going back to school for higher education or technical training, enrollment in the military, recovering from a traumatic accident or illness, caring for an elderly parent or sick child for an extended period of time, residence in a rehabilitation facility, or incarceration.

First and foremost, you don't necessarily have to include it onto your resume if the incarceration period was long years ago, it was rather brief and for a minor crime.

Other states allow divorce for grounds of incarceration only after the felon has actually served a number of years in prison.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.

There is no requirement that the incarcerated spouse be incarcerated for the entire three years, or that living apart was the result of the incarceration.