Word: prisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...threat of arrest has done nothing to dissuade the pirates. "Not even 0.2% of the total pirates are arrested, so anybody who is at all intelligent can understand that arrest does not bring fear," says Maryam Jama, a pirate recruiter in Bossaso. "If you get arrested, in prison the others will say, 'Do not worry, you will be out and then hijack another ship with good luck...
...sentenced to year in prison. Guess you can't do whatever you like...
...York Rockefeller, Reconsidered Governor David Paterson reached an agreement with legislators to scale down the state's Rockefeller drug laws, some of the earliest statutes in the nation to lay out mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. Critics and activists hailed the pact, arguing that mandatory minimums contribute to prison overcrowding and recidivism and incarcerate addicts who should instead receive treatment. The original laws, which were a model for much of the legislation passed at the height of America's War on Drugs in the 1980s, mandated minimum sentences as long as 15 years for certain drug offenses--the same...
...Worked as a Vermont prison guard during college...
...streets, are led remotely by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 bloodless military coup. Subsequently convicted by the Supreme Court on conflict of interest charges over a land deal, Thaksin is now living in self-imposed exile to avoid serving a two-year prison sentence while another Thai court mulls the fate of about $2 billion of his assets seized on suspicion they were gained through corruption. The former leaders whereabouts are currently unknown, but allegations that he is in neighboring Cambodia have contributed to strained relations between the two countries. (See pictures...