In 2003 Congress unanimously passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which required the collection of data on sexual abuse in prison, and the creation of a commission to recommend national ways to prevent it.
People shining lasers at aircraft faced up to five years in prison under the Civil Aviation Act, he said.
His mental health began to deteriorate to such an extent that, in November 1985, he was diagnosed as a psychopath, sectioned under the Mental Health Act and transferred from prison to a maximum security hospital.
The maximum possible prison sentence for an offence under the 1990 Act is 10 years.
She was a class act, asking to start her prison sentence early so she could put the catastrophe behind her and move on with her life.
Current sentences often send non-violent, first time offenders to prison for decades, so there is no Act that would benefit society or the person imprisoned for that period of time.
FORBES: Federal Prison -- All White-Collar Sentences Should Be "Shock" Sentences
Prison Service Director General Sue McAllister said they would act on the report.
The charges carry a penalty of up to 15 years in prison, or life if death resulted from the act.
Convicted offenders face 10 years in prison, but if the girl dies during the act, those involved will get a life sentence, according to officials in the east African country.
Prison library management at regional level exists only in very few places, leaving the majority of prison staff running institutional libraries with no option but to act on their own.
Charged with first-degree murder, she could spend the rest of her life in prison if convicted, but she insists it was an act of self-defense after months of taking care of a troubled teen.
Offenders caught targeting an aircraft with a laser faced up to five years in prison if found guilty of an offence under the Civil Aviation Act, it said.
BBC: Laser warning after teenager guilty of 'dazzling' pilot
If Breivik is found to be sane, the court could sentence him to the traditional 21-year prison sentence, the maximum term for a homicide or terror act conviction, but he must be released after serving that sentence.
After downloading millions of academic papers from the online service JSTOR, Swartz was prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and faced up to 35 years in prison.
BBC: Has Aaron Swartz's death made him an internet 'martyr'?
Though his banknotes were drawn by hand, bearing his own signature as chief cashier, the British government pressed charges under Section 18 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act, threatening to end his career with a forty-year prison sentence.
"Die Fledermaus, " he felt, was missing an emotional lift in the third act, when the couple reunites (after multiple disguises, affairs and prison).
The terms of what makes up a "public authority" have not been defined in the Act, but will include government departments, local authorities, police, prison, immigration officers, public prosecutors and courts.
The charity has long campaigned against the fact that children in prison are the only group of young people excluded from the protection of the 1989 Children Act.
The ruling by Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks, the first under the state's controversial Racial Justice Act, means that 38-year-old Marcus Robinson now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Wright was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, after pleading guilty to a Section 2 offence under the Protection from Harassment Act at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court.
应用推荐