The long wasted years of prison life have a sobering effect on former criminal allegiances.
But by the second month prison life almost becomes the norm.
Both Owens and Davies reportedly told him they had a history of drug use in order to get methadone to relieve the gloom of prison life.
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He rejected the notion that prison life was easy and said those with less opportunity to earn money working in prison were more likely to sell drugs.
Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic the reported stories fail to grab us, because, for the most part, nothing happens.
It was the fact that while most of the prisoners were divergently dissipating the pressure of prison life through distractions like sleeping or TV, he was convergently using this same energy to focus his attention on getting free.
And also it gives you an opportunity, and I think Jeffrey will seize this, to say something about prison life, prison reform, changes needed in the system and to have that voice heard - so I think it cuts both ways.
But if the jury decides against the death penalty, the judge would have two options: sentencing Arias to life in prison without the possibility of parole, or sentencing her to life in prison with the possibility of parole after at least 25 years.
Would society be safer and deterrence higher had these two men gone to prison for life?
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That's worrying because a single print found at a crime scene can be enough to send someone to prison for life.
Manson and three of his followers, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles "Tex" Watson, remain in prison for life in the Tate killings.
But if two people carry firearms, a confrontation that might otherwise have ended in words or blows ends instead with one man dead, and the other man on his way to prison for life.
Participation in a drug class, even one in prison, could affect things in ones personal life post prison, like child custody, ability to get employment in certain professions, higher cost or eligibility for life or health insurance.
The other options are life in prison without the chance of parole or life with a chance for parole after 25 or 30 years.
Twenty of the 1, 044 prisoners in the medical prison are serving life sentences, he said.
The charges carry a penalty of up to 15 years in prison, or life if death resulted from the act.
The campaigners also agreed that prison just makes life harder for women - so they are more likely to reoffend.
But he indicated that he considered only the Sanduskys' letters in handing down a sentence that, for a 68-year-old man, is likely to be a life prison term.
There appears to be a correlation to the dollar amount stolen and the length of the prison sentence, so it is unlikely that Bailey will be spending the rest of his life in prison.
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Of those sentenced to prison, five people received life sentences and 10 others were given 15 years in prison, the state-run EgyNews agency reported.
If convicted Dutschke could face up to life in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
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She would spend the rest of her life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
In Florida, a conviction for second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The charge of culpable homicide in Bangladesh carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison and he died behind bars.
The verdict of life in prison is a victory of Zacarias Moussaoui's defense team.
The maximum sentence for each charge of shooting with intent to kill is life in prison.
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