The judge recommended his term be served in a halfway house, not prison.
Whether or not prison works as a crime-fighting tool, how much further down the road of ever more frequent imprisonment can America go?
Their sentences will be rehabilitation programmes, not prison.
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Sentences for other athletes convicted in connection with the BALCO investigation have not included prison time.
In the past thirty years, the United States has quadrupled its incarceration rate but not its prison space.
Both prosecution and defence agreed Mr Pistorius could remain in custody at a police station and not in prison.
The people who ran the companies that brought us into this financial crisis should be held accountable with a public trial, if not a prison sentence.
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Mr Spratt said five members of the Maghaberry standby search team had received death threats from prisoners and said the ombudsman did not understand prison culture.
The technical high point is a terrific scene in which Holmes, arrested for a murder he did not commit, escapes from Holloway Prison not, as is first supposed, in a dead prisoner's coffin but disguised as the orderly accompanying it.
Not only does prison, for the vast majority of those who endure it, not work, either as punishment or as rehabilitation, but there is no escaping the conclusion that it functions as a stimulant to crime, rather than its bromide.
Mr Collins, the former chairman of Bristol UKIP, added that his comments about locking up illegal immigrants was referring to current UK policy which stated people should be detained in prison, but this did not happen due to prison overcrowding.
Last month, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) was told it could not build a new prison on land earmarked for a new academic and research campus in Inverness.
First, Kevin Ring has not reported to prison since his sentencing in October 2011.
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Lawyers I have spoken to caution that clients should not rely on prison consultants for legal advice.
The site, best known as Ferodo and later as Dynamex, was "not suitable for prison development", she said.
Mrs Gross said she feared her husband may not survive his prison sentence.
However, the BBC's Jonathan Head in Istanbul says they will not go to prison because of their age and frail health.
Gupta should be treated fairly and fairness would be sending him home to his family and not to some prison camp that would offer no benefit to society.
Custody staff also failed to inform security guards escorting him about the medication he had been taking to help with heroin withdrawal, so the information was also not passed to prison officers in Swansea, it found.
The Prison Service would not comment on whether or not Mr Trunkfield is still working at the prison.
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Just as not every hospital patient is cured or every prison inmate rehabilitated, not every sick company that enters Chapter 11 emerges with all its problems solved.
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But inspectors found the prison does not have the facilities to care for these patients.
This was because the necessary courses they needed to complete were not offered at the prison.
Prison would not have been a fitting end for such an intriguing, if flawed, character.
One allegedly sent a police officer to prison for not bowing to him in the grocers.
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His account of his time spent in Havana's medieval El Morro prison is not bedtime reading.
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The lawyers say they are not allowed by the prison authorities to communicate properly with their clients.
Mr Givan said that most people thought prison did not work, and called for a deterrent approach.
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