Mark Leach, a former prisoner and the director of the Institute for Prison Law, said the issue of positive activities in prison was underestimated.
In 2001, he escaped from a high security prison in Mexico after bribing prison and law-enforcement authorities.
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The committee proposed punishment of up to five years in prison for law-enforcement officers who don't register cases of rape or sexual assault following complaints.
In 2004 he did some time in prison for practicing law without a license in Washington, DC.
The judge said he would not sentence Sandusky to "centuries in prison, although the law will permit that".
If a felony is a crime punishable by more than one year in prison, then Mexican law makes it a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.
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However, 30 years is set by Nicaraguan law as the maximum prison sentence.
Many honest persons, desiring neither to break the law nor go to prison, will thereby be deterred from owning guns.
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But by law, a private prison must also have a controller who is a government employee and works to the Justice Secretary.
However, it later announced that the sentence served would be one year due to a 2006 amnesty law aimed at reducing prison overcrowding.
Later that year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law to reduce the prison population by putting low-level offenders in county jails instead of state prisons.
The directive is a follow-up to a 1996 law that denies federal prison funds to states that do not give drug tests to prisoners and parolees.
Thus, a prison term is necessary to vindicate the law and provide deterrence.
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Although Brazil has a law against torture - with prison sentences for offenders - the report said that in practice this is never applied.
He favoured "strong prison discipline for those who broke the law".
Attacking a police officer is seen as an aggravated offence in the eyes of the law, and carries a prison sentence of up to six months.
Judges typically will only allow bail pending appeal for a defendant who has been sentenced to prison when there are significant questions of law associated with the verdict.
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Mr Rocci is one of the first people to be sent to prison for violating the DMCA. The law has been criticised as being too broad and restricting the fair use rights of consumers.
For example, the arrests of John Walker Lindh (a white, middle-class man better known as the 'American Taliban') and Richard Reid (a British citizen of West Indian and European ancestry now serving a life sentence at the Supermax prison in Colorado) confirm that effective law enforcement techniques must rely solely on criminal behavior and not race, religion or nationality in order to ensure our citizens' security.
The son would potentially benefit from a change in the law if, once out of prison, he committed a third offence.
More recently, in an effort to tackle the indiscipline and deaths on Egyptian roads, the government passed a traffic law that applies stiff fines and prison sentences for minor infractions.
Those convicted of treason in the United States may be sentenced to between five years in prison up to death, according to federal law published on the U.S. House of Representatives' website.
At a press conference Mayor Bloomberg announced Burress should get three and a half years in prison, mandated by a recently passed state law that's meant to add some teeth to gun control.
It was entirely likely that young man had brushes with the law and possibly ended up in prison, as a look at incarceration rates for 18- to 25-year-old African American males in the 70s and 80s will confirm.
Hubbell pleaded guilty to bilking his Little Rock law firm and served 18 months in prison.
The 48-year-old, who now lives in Chicago and is the prison rights coordinator for the Uptown People's Law Center, said he spent a total of 23 years in solitary confinement, 12 years consecutively, most of it without TV or a radio.
Violators of the new law would face up to two years in prison and a quarter of a million dollars in fines.
In their decision, the judges noted state law provided "a mechanism for release from prison on medical parole" if a defendant becomes terminally ill.
The government should send a message to Wall Street and those in the expert networks that prison time awaits them if they do not obey the law.
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