That's worrying because a single print found at a crime scene can be enough to send someone to prison for life.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Doherty told Kandra that he had no other option but to send him to prison.
Some magistrates' courts in England and Wales are four times more likely to send offenders to prison than others, a penal reform charity has said.
This weekend, New York Times tech journalist Jenna Wortham made a confession that could be used to send her to prison for a year or more.
These guys are traders and the same risk taking they used to make millions (billions) will either set them free, minimize their prison time or send them to prison for decades.
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Or is he planning to reveal all to a jury which would have to decide on a death sentence in the hope that they will send him to prison instead?
Set up a business deal designed to hide income or assets from the IRS, and the government can send you to prison.
Prosecutors said there are sentencing guidelines that could send Kevorkian to prison between 10 and 25 years.
If the judge finds that she wilfully misled him, he could fine her and, in theory, send her to prison.
The new bill, if passed, would send violators to prison for up to five years for streaming copyrighted material more than ten times in 180 days.
Wal-Mart is roughly the same size as a country like Colombia, which may be dysfunctional but it can send you to prison, it can put you in the army and it can do a whole host of things a company can't do.
For us mortals, a federal judge has decided that the best deterrent for future would-be rogue traders is to send guys like Dooley to prison.
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Determinant sentence, meaning the legislature set a time frame upon conviction if, worst case scenario, the judge decides to send a person to state prison.
However, if this case is going to send Mandell and Harrington to prison for many years then the government had better start talking about some laws that have been broken rather than a one-time stock broker (Grabowski) who had a change of heart because he no longer believed his own sales pitch.
But the prosecutors in the case against the former New York State legislator who offered to serve as a diplomat in the Middle East in lieu of incarceration had an even better idea: Send convicted executives to prison, then they are free to perform the community service of their choosing after they have served their sentence.
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Prosecutor Svein Holden told the Oslo District Court on Thursday that he wasn't entirely convinced Mr. Breivik was insane, but that there were enough doubts over his sanity to send him to psychiatric care rather than to prison.
Peter Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute, and is the author of numerous books, including Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison.
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"We have decided to cut the electricity of the central prison during the daytime to send a message, " Mr Alimi said.
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Yet, though it costs more to send defendants through a drug court than through probation, sending them to prison is roughly ten times more expensive.
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.
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The feds got their man in a large tax shelter case that will send former BDO Seidman CEO, Denis Field, to prison.
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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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In April, Jeremy Jaynes, considered among the world's top-ten spammers, got a nine-year prison sentence in America for using false e-mail addresses and aliases to send mass e-mails (though the sentence was suspended pending an appeal).
Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska, who first floated the proposal of tearing down the prison to colleagues this week, told CNN that he believes such a move would send a strong signal to the international community that America is ready to "put it all behind us" and begin the healing process.
Also Wednesday, a public prosecutor decided to send Hosni Mubarak -- who has spent the last few months detained in a military hospital -- back to prison, prosecutor spokesman Mahmoud Hefnawi told the state-run al-Ahram newspaper.
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