The clause establishing that "moral turpitude" could prevent former convicts from voting was not repealed; the term was redefined, reportedly making thousands of former convicts eligible to vote.
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The state is responding with job training programs for convicts that have helped participants find jobs at a 75% rate, well above the 25%-40% employment rates for ex-convicts nationwide.
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He experimented with convicts, then hit on an alternative: Italians.
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Keeping convicts away from jobs may also be harming America.
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Convicts may also be reluctant to talk openly at hearings.
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Cats probably arrived in Australia on British ships carrying convicts.
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It was one of three escaped convicts from Santa Ana.
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He also accused Tunisia of "exporting its convicts" to Italy.
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In the film, the galactic convicts perish one by one.
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Bosnia, all of its 23 terrorism convicts will go free.
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Go deeper: The puzzle of getting former convicts into jobs.
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For others, it ends with the incarceration of the convicts.
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Like in America, convicts are used for cheap manual labour.
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The convicts' work has been praised by President Aleksandar Vucic.
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Peru plans to establish a registry of gender violence convicts.
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Mr. Kathrada said that on arriving at the prison he and the mixed-race convicts were issued long trousers, while black convicts like Mr. Mandela and Mr. Sisulu had to wear shorts without socks.
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There have been scattered reports of firms hiring more ex-convicts.
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Convicts are free to run their drug empires by mobile phone.
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Many former convicts have too much pride to ask for help.
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It entraps, it convicts, and it strips people of their humanity.
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Visitors tended to be ex-convicts who had lost their documents.
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Unlike the convicts, their descendants have grown wilder and more menacing.
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It has executed 14 convicts, most of them foreigners, under Widodo.
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There are a lot of convicts who celebrate a new 26.
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I glanced around the visiting room at all the other convicts.
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Per Ulrich Karpf is one of Denmark's most notorious millionaire convicts.
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Cossacks, convicts and desperate peasants have often been the only takers.
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It was a settlement of convicts — though an astonishingly successful one.
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Dozens of convicts were executed by electric chair from 1950 to 1986.
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Many insurers, however, typically view ex-convicts as too high a risk.
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Many of the convicts had been serving time for crack cocaine charges.
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He subsequently formed Barbwire Theater, a troupe that including several ex-convicts.
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They're prehistoric nightmares (Doomsday), they're Phantom Zone convicts (General Zod and crew).
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After his release, Aoba spent some time in facilities for former convicts.
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The few convicts who could escape the island prison ate one another.
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Q. Can Ms. Rousseff go to prison if the Senate convicts her?
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The blacklist included ex-convicts, fugitives from justice, and the mentally impaired.
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Yet election officials regularly send absentee ballots to prisons for misdemeanor convicts.
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Death rates were staggeringly high; convicts, unlike slaves, cost nothing to replace.
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Investigations rattle Washington, Russia tackles its xenophobia and Hungary convicts human smugglers.
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Once released, ex-convicts are given jobs to reintegrate them into society.
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If the jury convicts him, Weinstein could face a possible life sentence.
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In recent years, another startling theory emerged: Drunken convicts are to blame.
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Hacksaw blades that the two convicts used to escape, the sources told CNN.
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You would be surprised how many ladies want to pen-pal with convicts.
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Former convicts often face barriers to construction, tree trimming and truck driving jobs.
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In 2016 the STF ruled that such convicts should begin their sentences immediately.
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Two convicts are said to have been involved in the Peshawar school killings.
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Posters featuring mugshots of suspected militants and escaped convicts hang under the awnings.
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In Tasmania, they founded a prison to house the worst of the convicts.
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There were young people, students, old people, even homeless people and ex-convicts.
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They found that the convicts did seem to respond to the harsher sentences.
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The government typically informs the embassies of foreign convicts days before their executions.
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One of the convicts killed in the riot was said to be decapitated.
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Unlike his fellow campaigning convicts, "Sheriff Joe" never spent a day in jail.
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For a nation settled by convicts, Australians can be sticklers for the rules.
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Alabama, a 2012 decision banning life sentences without parole for most teenage convicts.
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This means reducing sentences or releasing convicts serving sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.
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More than one-third of the 673 convicts had been serving life sentences.
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A chilly G-19683 approaches, Sweden convicts a terrorist and Europe protects whisky.
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Adding to the chaos: As many as 24,143 convicts escaped from local jails.
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They only respond by filling their electoral lists with convicts, or yes-men.
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Nine categories of prisoner will be pardoned, including convicts who fought against the Japanese in World War Two, those aged over 75 and with serious physical disabilities, or convicts who had previously been named model workers, state news agency Xinhua said.
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He could be sentenced to 30 years behind bars if a judge convicts him.
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The charges could put her behind bars for life if a court convicts her.
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The quake razed the walls of local prisons, letting more than 1,200 convicts loose.
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In 2016, 3,800 convicts were freed, but those released committed only 22 serious offences.
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But, unlike Damher or Gacy, the Laredo, Texas-born convicts weren't killing for sport.
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For the first time since 220006, Texas did not execute any African American convicts.
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He was transported back to corporate with other convicts who failed to secure sponsors.
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The Association of Former Social Convicts said the government had yet to contact them.
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Florida, to past convicts but only back to 2002, based on separate court precedent.
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Convicts were ordered to cut down the body and bury him two days later.
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Only two states — Maine and Vermont — allow ex-convicts to vote without any restrictions.
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Proposals include tougher jail sentences for terrorism convicts and more resources for counterterrorism police.
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Mr. Nassari now works at a charity providing support for other Muslim ex-convicts.
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On average, convicts who were freed had served 14 years in prison when exonerated.
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The convicts still have two different processes available for seeking a review of their verdict.
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The Centre for Employment Opportunities, a charity, places former convicts in 2002-day work programmes.
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If this trial convicts them, it paves the way for such convictions in the future.
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That means the contractor is paid in full, but it fails convicts on their release.
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Sharif is sent into exile after a court convicts him of conspiracy against Musharraf; __Oct.
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The UK actually just offed those convicts rather than ship them halfway around the world.
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And if the Senate convicts and removes Trump, she won't become president—Mike Pence will.
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"If this jury convicts me, maybe I did do it," Simpson tells the dream team.
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It hardly matters that only one of the five convicts to be executed is Black.
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Even many former convicts—especially in states like Florida—are barred from the democratic process.
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More than 2.33,000 convicts escaped from three local jails, the Indonesian authorities said on Monday.
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It was a shock to me that half of the convicts transported went to Tasmania.
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For instance, he pledged to work on reentry programs for former convicts and reduce recidivism.
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McAuliffe has made the restoration of rights of former convicts a priority of his administration.
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The newly re-incarcerated convicts will be wondering what sort of regime now awaits them.
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Some 0003,2000 convicts were hanged there between 29 and 22020 (when they were taken down).
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Convicts typically use the opportunity before a sentence is handed down to ask for mercy.
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State television said the last time this was done, in 2015, 31,527 convicts were pardoned.
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Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia are the only states that permanently disenfranchise convicts with felons.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has balked at any moves to reduce sentences served by convicts.
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"You can't trust convicts with electoral shit," Peele's Killa B. Killed said in the segment.
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Defense lawyer Giasuddin Nannu said all the convicts will challenge the verdict in the High Court.
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The crime of which Klebold convicts herself is ignorance, and for that, she feels bottomless guilt.
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For ex-convicts, the first search result of their name would usually involve their criminal case.
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Understandably, incarcerated convicts have lots of time to think about their cases and review their files.
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But a ragtag black-ops team of convicts and villains without any loyalty to one another?
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The owners of firms that used convicts benefited; poorer people lost out when competing with them.
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Another two arrested are former convicts, previously found guilty in 2016 of participating in terrorist activities.
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But of course the old saw about convicts is that they all claim they are innocent.
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The government said last week that courts had granted alternative sentences to 451 convicts so far.
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"What can you do for us that other convicts can't?" asked the rep from Home Depot.
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For some former convicts, medical marijuana and the industry of legal weed has provided just that.
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The Obama administration is trying to make it easier for ex-convicts to go to college.
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The musician reportedly wants to discuss furthering job opportunities for former convicts with the administration officials.
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In addition, many convicts were charged with possession and use of a firearm as a felon.
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About 30% of elderly convicts commit crimes after release -- above the general recidivism rate of 20%.
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"The Return" won the Documentary Award and focuses on the struggles of convicts re-entering society.
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All the convicts were moved to a maximum-security prison on Nusakambangan Island in central Java.
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Ex-convicts and suspended baseball players alike have served their time; they deserve no further punishment.
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The jury easily convicts Burns and Rafay, both of whom remain in prison to this day.
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"It means respect and acknowledgement of the sacrifices made by explorers, settlers, our convicts," he added.
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In many cases, convicts would have to go through immigration courts before they could be deported.
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They argued that convicts should not take the financial aid resources from cash-strapped college students.
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As many as 21943,21979 convicts escaped from local jails, and violent confrontations with looters have occurred.
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Black convicts make up a disproportionately high percentage of death row inmates in the United States.
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Just hours later, Mr. Trump appeared before a group that helps former convicts re-enter society.
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Around 1,400 people arrived, half of them convicts, transported from England to establish a penal colony.
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Convicts sentenced to life by the ICTY can request to be released after serving 30 years.
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Trump granted clemency to several high-profile convicts — including Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken and Bernard Kerik.
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Everything the system does to us convicts is designed to tear us down, to degrade us.
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He is an adviser to the Excel Automotive Institute, which teaches auto mechanics largely to ex-convicts.
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" And yet, he continued, Tunisia "isn&apost exporting gentlemen, it seems more often they&aposre exporting convicts.
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Some ex-convicts have left with business plans to set up as tour operators to the country.
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The group said the attack was in revenge for death sentences handed down to thousands of convicts.
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Yet because the SDNY is a federal jurisdiction, the president could in theory pardon anyone it convicts.
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Fourteen drug convicts faced the firing squad in 2015, six in January and another eight in April.
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Globalisation means that convicts stitching Victoria's Secret bras compete as much with Chinese workers as with locals.
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The court ordered the four main convicts to pay 2 million dirham ($209,000) compensation to Ueland's family.
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The United States must abolish this medieval practice in favor of sentencing convicts to life without parole.
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He caused a diplomatic row by accusing Tunisia of sending "convicts" over to Italy in migrant boats.
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Nimr and the three other Shi'tes were executed on Saturday along with 43 Sunni al Qaeda convicts.
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In 1789, several convicts temporarily insisted upon receiving the death penalty rather than accepting this conditional pardon.
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In June, he pardoned conservative author Dinesh D'Souza and talked about pardons for other prominent convicts. Sen.
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Only 19, he was spared the noose by a law prohibiting the execution of convicts under 21.
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In America, five years from their release date, nearly 80 percent of those convicts are re-arrested.
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And Obama granted clemency to more federal convicts — mainly drug offenders — than any president since Harry Truman.
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The government convicts two Reuters journalists in a cruel and clumsy cover up of its own crimes.
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But Daddy always taught us that we are to love, the Holy Spirit convicts, and God judges.
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Convicts, abandoned lovers, the dog that pulled someone out of quicksand, a crow in a Dickens novel.
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Proceeds will go to the Fortune Society, a charity supporting former convicts re-entering society after incarceration.
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Convicts labored barelegged in wet sugar cane fields, dying like flies in the periodic epidemics of fevers.
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But they have also told him they believe there is almost no chance the Senate convicts him.
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In their place, he populated Alghero mostly with convicts, prostitutes and other undesirables, many of them Catalans.
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Prison exposes young inmates to other convicts and increases the risk of recidivism for less serious offenders.
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It may be that prison is no safer for the nervous convicts than life on the run.
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The Obama administration unveiled guidelines Monday to make higher education more accessible to ex-convicts. http://bit.
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But Mr. Jones, like the other ex-convicts I spoke to, knew the odds were against him.
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Which states still sentence convicts to death In 2019, more states began moving away from capital punishment.
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If the jury convicts the defendants of all charges, they face up to 50 years in prison.
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I was going to be in a kitchen with 15-plus knives with a bunch of convicts.
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Being in prison, out-of-sight and out-of-mind, convicts usually don't get what they want.
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The convicts, they thought the fact I was in prison for what I did was a joke.
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And in AP, efforts to build a DNA database began in 2016 as a way to track convicts.
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The point of the project: to reduce recidivism rates by making sure that former convicts are gainfully employed.
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The Supreme Court last year upheld the Delhi High Court&aposs death penalty order for the four convicts.
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But California has been more enthusiastic than most states in passing laws restricting what ex-convicts can do.
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Yet ex-convicts usually either cannot find work or are paid low wages, according to a Brookings report.
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But under a law that Lula himself signed when he was president, convicts may not run for office.
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One of the convicts was crucified, according to an Interior Ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.
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Ex-convicts who find a job and a place to stay are less likely to return to crime.
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The remaining firms using local workers then replaced them with machinery to compete with other firms using convicts.
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Judges sentence convicts to death for crimes including murder, but no sentences have been carried out for decades.
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"Eight convicts in a panic and paranoid state," Bulger later wrote of being forcibly injected with the drug.
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Similarly, in "High Life," some of the convicts are black, but they are not a message-telegraphing majority.
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By the numbers: France will soon free 57 inmates, roughly 50% of its current population of terrorism convicts.
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She saw an opportunity to turn their hustle into legitimate businesses, giving these ex-convicts a second chance.
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Mr. Sinha said he was helping the convicts because there was "no evidence" that they killed Mr. Ansari.
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For some of the convicts, the commutations mean they will serve only half of their original prison sentences.
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"We will watch the process and watch it very closely," Mr. Trump told the audience of former convicts.
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President Barack Obama shortened prison sentences for 153 convicts, mainly low-level drug offenders, and pardoned 78 others.
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According to the written law, a prime minister has no obligation to resign until a court convicts him.
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He was 19 and only spared the noose by a law prohibiting the execution of convicts under 21.
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There, as nearly the youngest prisoner amid a population of long-serving convicts, he learned to make friends fast.
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But de Lima said the government pressured those convicts to testify and have an "ax" to grind against her.
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The country's independent National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutes more than 1,000 people a year, and convicts most of them.
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Just 30% of the former convicts who have managed to stay out of prison were noted as having tattoos.
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Increasingly, multiple convicts have been put to death the same day, a new trend which has disturbed rights monitors.
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One of the convicts was crucified, according to an interior ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
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Nicolae said roughly 2,700 people would benefit from the bill, just under 10 percent of all of Romania's convicts.
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The convicts were executed Sunday at Al-Hoot prison in Nasiriyah, said Yahya Al-Nasiri, governor of Dhiqar province.
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Death penalties handed down by the trial court to 11 other convicts have been commuted to life in prison.
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Marauding gangs, ranging from looters and escaped convicts to genocidal, flamethrower-wielding sanitation workers, now largely rule the city.
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The perception also remains that many of these terror-convicts are just ticking time bombs, waiting to go off.
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There is also the question of how former convicts with marijuana-related felonies on their record will be treated.
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In recent years, some two dozen Dutch prisons have shut down, because there aren't enough convicts to fill them.
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Iraqi officials said that the 36 convicts were executed on Sunday at a prison in Nasiriya in the south.
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Unfortunately, we still have a broken criminal justice system that wrongly convicts innocent people, issuing them the death penalty.
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Beyond that, Obama also granted clemency to more federal convicts — mainly drug offenders — than any president since Harry Truman.
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So he is sending a team to see how the federal Bureau of Prisons handles sick and dying convicts.
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And Colbert said Trump seems to be deriving a strange amount of satisfaction from his ability to pardon convicts.
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Normally, the lawyer said, convicts "are terrified, they're very compliant" and keep a low profile as they await sentencing.
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Chaka FattahChaka FattahPhiladelphia Dem power broker indicted The year the party machines broke Jury convicts the son of Rep.
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The twenty-two-year-old Mike Smith, for instance, was shocked by the practice of strip-searching the convicts.
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According to the New York Department of Corrections, 29% of the state's female ex-convicts are eventually re-arrested.
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The second is to help convicts leaving jail so they do not follow the well-worn path of recidivism.
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If New York State successfully convicts him, the case has the potential to change how America defines and prosecutes terrorism.
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The convicts' loss of anonymity makes the risk of repeat offences "all but unthinkable", the court said in a statement.
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Virginia is one of 12 states that doesn't afford automatic restoration of voting and other civil rights to ex-convicts.
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Juvenile crime and anti-social behaviour have dropped in England and Wales, and with them the number of juvenile convicts.
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In Oregon, it cost police about $400 to build a facial-recognition system that indexed 300,000 mugshots of former convicts.
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Under the administration of former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a total of 21 convicts were executed from 2005 to 2013.
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I went to the Lieutenant's where I got in line with other convicts that were targeted for suspected drug use.
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New York Daily News photographer Phil Grietzer is charged by two convicts at the West 68th Street Precinct on Jan.
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It's just the latest chapter in America's long love affair with killing convicts, often in the least transparent way possible.
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The arrangement appeared to violate a state regulation barring relationships between convicts' families and those who watch over state prisoners.
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This week, a convoluted legal battle unfolded in Arkansas over the state's plan to execute eight convicts in 11 days.
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Nearly anyone who wants a job can get one, including formerly high-unemployment groups like the disabled and ex-convicts.
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Brushy was also nearly impossible to escape, but Ray managed it with the help of six other convicts in 1977.
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Grade school students, plaintiffs and convicts do not pay for use of those facilities as they walk into the buildings.
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If Mueller convicts Manafort, it is likely to be celebrated as proof of the legitimacy of the special counsel investigation.
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The amendment eases the path to registration for all ex-convicts except for those convicted of murder or sexual offenses.
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Grumpy, sleep-deprived judges are apparently harder on convicts the Monday after clocks are sprung ahead for Daylight Savings Time.
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I'll never forget the moment I stepped into a cellblock—I could practically feel all the convicts staring at me.
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The groups provide services that including child abuse prevention, help for former convicts re-entering society and H.I.V./AIDS support.
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Only three federal convicts have been executed since 1988, compared to 1,437 by states since 1976, according to the center.
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After the White House publicized the president's desire to use his clemency power, more than 30,000 convicts applied for relief.
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Anatomists held public dissections to expose the telltale traits of moral corruption in the internal organs of criminals and convicts.
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A few miles away, a seaside coal mine once worked by the convicts is under similar assault by the waves.
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Constellation Brands (STZ) sold its Ballast Point craft beer unit to Illinois-based Kings & Convicts Brewing for an undisclosed amount.
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Prisons Commissioner T.M.J.W. Thennakoon declined to provide details of the four convicts whose death penalties were approved by the president.
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There are, after all, plenty of capable ex-convicts and drug users who would do fine in a professional environment.
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Leveraging the president's enormous clemency powers, he pardoned or commuted more than 22015,20003 federal convicts' sentences — almost entirely for drug crimes.
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Near the end of the show, the testimonies of death row convicts are written in large, red letters on white prints.
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StreetSafe outreach workers are ex-convicts who help steer young people away from gangs and violence towards jobs, education and treatment.
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The parole board acts like a court, deciding whether to release convicts, many of them on life or open-ended sentences.
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In 2012 Tennier Industries, an American military-clothing firm, fired 100 workers because it could not compete with rivals employing convicts.
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He reportedly intends to discuss job opportunities for former convicts and manufacturing jobs in the Chicago area, where he grew up.
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Convicts have been behind several recent attacks in Europe, including some using little more weaponry than a knife or rental truck.
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A prison record makes it harder to get a job and some types of housing will not rent to former convicts.
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Convicts are regularly moved to other jails, or taken away to attend court appearances, leaving an empty bed to be filled.
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Prasetyo added that no convicts from the United States, Europe or Australia were on the list to be executed this year.
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While out of prison, he won't have the liberty to consume alcohol in large quantities or hang out with ex-convicts.
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Texas executed seven convicts in 2017 and Florida, the site of Tuesday's cases, executed three in 2017, according to the center.
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He's strong enough to lift a helicopter, but when he's pummeling escaped convicts like they owe him money they somehow survive?
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Al Awir is known as the home to a prison and the place where foreign female convicts are scheduled for deportation.
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Almost anyone who wants a job — including the stubbornly unemployed, felony convicts and workers with a drug record — can get one.
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Although many convicts volunteer to work, not all qualify as they must first be cleared to use sewing machines, Carevic said.
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It is also home to at least 22012 million cannabis convicts—people who've been incarcerated for consuming, buying, and selling weed.
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Beatings and killings were routine, and soon enough, he began to practice his taekwondo skills on a few of the convicts.
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On caning days in Aceh, huge crowds gather to watch as convicts are publicly beaten, an event resembling a medieval spectacle.
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But they also included a call for the extradition of all American convicts who had fled to the island for asylum.
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The married father of two faces up to life in prison if the jury convicts him on any of the felony counts.
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Second, it is just possible that former convicts might be more productive than the other candidates who apply for a particular job.
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I'm now giving others the opportunity to be treated as humans and break down barriers between ex-convicts and the general population.
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Indonesia's prosecutors have always stressed that only death row convicts who have exhausted all legal avenues are put on the execution list.
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Reuters was also unable to reach officials in Xinjiang for comment, or any family members of the convicts to verify their stories.
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Mandatory minimum sentences or compulsory punishments for parole breaches mean they are left with no choice but to send convicts to prison.
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Nick Dyrenfurth, a historian who wrote "Mateship: A Very Australian History," has argued that convicts were the first to embrace the concept.
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Social services for the most vulnerable—the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, addicts and ex-convicts—have been cut or stopped altogether.
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Gadke could not be contacted as journalists are not allowed to speak with convicts in jail as per a home ministry directive.
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The study also found that 41 percent of the convicts surveyed had observed violence at home while 29 percent had experienced abuse.
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In late 2016, it pardoned 787 convicts in response to Pope Francis' call to all heads of state for acts of clemency.
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Practising states generally prefer to execute convicts by lethal injection—using one or several drugs to ensure a "humane" end to life.
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It's a dark comedy that doesn't hide away from the brutality and absurdity in the life of the first convicts of Australia.
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At a recent Supreme Court hearing challenging the military tribunals, Pakistan's chief justice questioned whether convicts should be allowed basic legal rights.
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A justice system that rarely prosecutes or convicts police officers who kill innocent people in the line of duty is the problem.
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The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
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The announcement reflects an emerging trend in Europe to isolate terrorism convicts and influential extremists from the rest of the prison population.
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Three of the convicts, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh had filed a clemency plea with the Supreme Court last year.
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The police are some of the main circulators of the substances, and often convicts are easy targets for heroin at high prices.
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"The idea is that she cannot mingle with anyone, either war crimes suspects or convicts, even if she wanted to," he said.
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In 2010, the Exoneration Initiative, a nonprofit that provides legal representation to convicts that it believes are innocent, began representing Mr. Rosario.
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They are turning to measures they have not taken in years — hiring teenagers and convicts, and paying big signing or moving bonuses.
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That did not happen, but five drug convicts were put to death in January of that year, and eight more in April.
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High-profile convicts petition judges to be released Defense attorneys have also painted a picture of inmates being deprived of basic hygiene.
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I want to tell Julian Everything has changed But there is still institutionalized Discrimination Against convicts [In access to housing // education // & employment].
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The case has raised grave questions about the guards at the Singer center, the city's main jail for female detainees and convicts.
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In the last two years, the top court has dismissed review pleas filed by the convicts, paving the way for the execution.
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Mr. Echols told the crowd at the Capitol that the matter was personal for him: The convicts were all men he knew.
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If the probationer is employed, he gets removed from the work force – and it is plenty hard for convicts to get jobs.
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October 19, 2016 - The ICC convicts Bemba and four members of his legal team of interfering with witnesses during his original trial.
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Sessions to reduce the disparity in sentences between crack and powder cocaine -- retroactive for some convicts, pending court approval for those people.
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By far the most famous is this viral 2007 Philippine prison dance, featuring hundreds of convicts rocking their orange jumpsuits in style.
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The two convicts, Redwanul Azad Rana and Faisal Bin Nayem, are members of the Islamist group Ansar al Islam, linked to al-Qaeda.
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In fact, without sound, this whole set-up has the exact vibe of a group of convicts doing "Jailhouse Rock" at a fundraiser.
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More than 400 convicts now in prison were sentenced to death, although many have had their sentences commuted to life or are appealing.
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The last recourse of the convicts, all of whom are now in their twenties, would be to seek clemency from President Pranab Mukherjee.
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And despite its salacious name, a pornography reading room is simply a space within a corrections facility where convicts can view such materials.
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Prisons then leased their convicts to private companies to do the same kind of brutal labor that they had just been freed from.
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The American officials described the released Iranians as convicts or suspects in sanctions violations — offenses that Iran's government has never recognized as legitimate.
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When appropriate, he said, the commission would notify the convicts and defense lawyers, who could decide whether to pursue new trials or exonerations.
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Tight labour markets lead firms to fish for employees in neglected pools, including among ex-convicts, and to boost training amid skills shortages.
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A reversal of that decision could result in the release of thousands of convicts not deemed a danger to society, including ordinary criminals.
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He gained it back last month when Maryland joined a growing list of U.S. states making it easier for ex-convicts to vote.
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" ASSEMBLEA NACIONAL CATALANA, GRASSROOTS PRO-INDEPENDENCE GROUP: "Faced with a sentence that convicts the exercise of fundamental rights, we respond as a people!
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But even in a vibrant economy that appears now to be starting to absorb even convicts, his story still seems to be rare.
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Many of the convicts who benefited were African-Americans or Latinos, two groups that have voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates in the past.
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TV's Krystal Ball on "Rising" to discuss how the nonprofit he runs helps provide current and former convicts with college education and support.
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Afterward, staffers demanded to be moved to the Green Zone or to have the task of executing convicts referred to a different department.
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Despite having dozens of convicts on death row, most of them for drug-related offenses, Indonesia in recent years has executed few prisoners.
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The Administration's surprise announcement last week that it will start executing federal convicts again — after a 21625 year pause — is a classic example.
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The sheriff of Oconee County, whose jurisdiction is north of where the killings occurred, wrote a post on Facebook to the escaped convicts.
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SEEKING: EX-CONVICTS, RECOVERING ADDICTS Scott Jansen, chief operating officer of Employ Milwaukee, said his work is an exercise in finding anyone available.
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The distinction: Prison reform, which focuses on helping convicts prepare for re-entry and find jobs once released, has the most bipartisan support.
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Defy Ventures, a nonprofit that works in prisons to help convicts become entrepreneurs, is usually in the headlines for all the right reasons.
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At first, I thought it might play too much off of the whole "ex-convicts yelling at you while doing prison workouts" gimmick.
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SEEKING: EX-CONVICTS, RECOVERING ADDICTS Scott Jansen, chief operating officer of Employ Milwaukee, said his work is an exercise in finding anyone available.
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They came in as academics, military personnel, scientists, athletes, filmmakers, farmers and even some convicts; they served as spies, cartographers, forgers and propagandists.
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But some legal experts argue that there is wide protection under the First Amendment for convicts to publish and profit from their work.
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Duterte last week demanded that the 1,700 convicts surrender, offering bounties of 1 million pesos ($116,200) for each if they failed to comply.
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The Andaman and Nicobar Islands became the holding site for hundreds of rebels and convicts because of its extreme distance from the mainland.
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His entire family was then taken away to a detainment camp, and he finally understood why so many families were among the convicts.
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Constellation Brands (STZ) – The spirits maker sold its Ballast Point craft beer unit to Illinois-based Kings & Convicts Brewing for an undisclosed amount.
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In both Serbia and Croatia politicians have accused the tribunal of bias against their side, and have welcomed convicts returning home as heroes.
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If justice can be bought, "Making A Murderer" convicts Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey are one step closer to getting out of prison.
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He said that "jeopardy attaches as soon as a jury is sworn in" regardless of whether it deadlocks, convicts or acquits the defendant.
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Dozens of terrorism convicts, many of whom were part of the first surge of jihadis drawn to Syria and Iraq, will be freed from European prisons over the next two years reports the AP. The impact: Experts are concerned about the danger these convicts may still pose to the community, and worry that European governments aren't fully prepared to face the eventual threat.
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He said a wave of Cubans who came to Florida in 1980, many of them released convicts, ruined the place where he grew up.
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The staff, many of them former convicts themselves, are eager to help, but the criminal life is not one which fosters trust in others.
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But prisoners apparently saw that as preferential treatment, possibly because convicts see sex criminals—and especially those who prey on children—as uniquely evil.
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He went back and forth, sometimes drawing on his conversations with the convicts he meets through his volunteering with a Christian prison outreach program.
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Although we claim to be a beacon of democracy for the world, we're in the minority in regards to the way we disenfranchise convicts.
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Also, because mass incarceration breaks up families and renders many ex-convicts unemployable, it has raised the American poverty rate by an estimated 20%.
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Last month, Holmes was moved to the San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo, a prison that specializes in holding convicts with mental-health issues.
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One was arrested under suspicion of recruiting convicts in prison and planning an attack on Muslim, Christian and Hindu places of worship in Malaysia.
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" T.I. also praised West for his desires to employ ex-convicts, saying, "I think wanting to bring jobs back to America is all phenomenal.
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"The convicts brought with them from Britain the term 'mate,' and they used it amongst themselves," Mr. Dyrenfurth said when his book was published.
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USP Coleman II is a high-security federal prison that currently holds about 1,400 inmates ... and has been home to famous convicts like Bulger.
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Since getting out, he's spent time working with organizations that helps convicts get back on their feet, including as a director at Defy Ventures.
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Another condition is that convicts must be enrolled in an education course, have a job, or occupy their days in some other structured way.
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It was a halfway house for ex-convicts and the homeless, and some of the floors had been renovated for use as a hostel.
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For many terrorism convicts, a stop before the gallows is on a show called "In the Grip of the Law," hosted by Ahmad Hassan.
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Law enforcement officers from around the country are alarmed by Obama's choices and the threat soon-to-be-free convicts pose to local neighborhoods.
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Instead, convicts usually live at home and, for at least eight hours a month, perform unpaid labour such as cleaning streets or clearing streams.
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Agricultural camps sell the produce from state-owned plantations and hire out convicts to private plantations and local farms, officials and former inmates said.
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Some years ago, its owner, Jack Loew, hired a resident of a nearby halfway house for convicts to paint the exterior red and black.
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He also told me up front that the magazines were crazy expensive due to the nature of running a business that solely employed convicts.
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I came here to run a 5k as part of OSP's annual racing series, which invites the public to race alongside incarcerated male convicts.
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This week's performance also carries a political message, honoring the hardships of the early convicts brought to Tasmania and the Indigenous people slaughtered here.
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The article states: For ticket sellers who served time in prison, selling boat tickets is more lucrative than most work available to ex-convicts.
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One section of The Wellery is devoted to ConBody, a "prison-style boot camp" that features ex-convicts leading workouts for $30 a class.
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Local politicians claimed that only Chinese workers were getting jobs — and even that those workers were actually convicts who had been sentenced to death.
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Dimon also said there should be greater job opportunities for convicts who have served their time — and said he'd like to hire more himself.
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Although the movie was about a "crew of hardened military convicts," Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine played Army officers — not members of that crew.
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One persistent advocate for early release of drug convicts, Jason Flom of Lava Records, mentions having attended fundraisers for Hillary Clinton's 260 Senate campaign.
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This month the supreme court ruled that convicts should remain at liberty until they exhaust their appeals, the decision that led to Lula's release.
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While many states continue to permanently bar felons from voting, a trend toward restoring rights after convicts have served their time is gaining steam.
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The section Stone emailed Credico also detailed their cooperation on efforts to relax the New York drug laws and free drug convicts from prison.
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This week, Carcel halted sales in America when it became aware of a federal law that bans the import of goods made by convicts.
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In Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that still allows convicts to be put to death, an abolition bill was vetoed by the state's governor.
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The political consensus for bringing former convicts back into society's mainstream has shifted faster this decade than at any other moment in modern history.
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The series debuted in October 2017, and has already featured the stories of such real-life convicts as Ed Kemper, Richard Speck and Monte Rissell.
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But rather than take the death penalty off the books, politicians in Florida are currently arguing over new justifications they might use for killing convicts.
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I couldn't help but notice how excited and enthusiastic these convicts were, as they shared with me their personal experience riding on the Blue Bird.
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The push toward abstinence messages accompanied policing efforts to comb cities for drug offenders and sentence convicts to mandatory prison terms of years or decades.
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This also means Grace's child is out there somewhere, since the mid-63s Canadian government definitely didn't permit convicts to have abortions at that time.
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Colin Kaepernick is a hero to ex-convicts and men still behind bars ... so says a community organizer who Colin blessed with a huge donation.
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While inside Jakarta's Cipinang prison, Afif was one of some 20 convicts heavily influenced by fellow convict and firebrand Islamist cleric Aman Abdurrahman, experts said.
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Convicts awaiting capital punishment whose sentences were imposed without a jury's unanimous vote on aggravating circumstances presumably have some hope of a new sentencing trial.
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Our sources say Weiner is freaked out because inmates there dole out their own brand of justice against convicts serving time for crimes against children.
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U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said during his Senate testimony this morning that federal resources are being deployed to help catch the escaped convicts.
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Under the penal reform, convicts with up to two years left in sentences are eligible for release on probation, extending the period from one year.
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Following last week's Supreme Court ruling, lawmakers have advocated speeding up a constitutional amendment reinstating automatic jail time for convicts who lose their first appeal.
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Three other Indonesians, including one woman, are also scheduled to die, said the Community Legal Aid Institute, an Indonesian organization representing some of the convicts.
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Desperate Hours: The Musical A ruthless gang of escaped convicts, led by a psychotic killer, is holding a couple hostage in their own suburban home.
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She hired a maître d' — who seats guests and handles the money — and a professional chef, Ivan Manzo, who was unfazed by working with convicts.
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No, Miami didn't run a particularly clean program in the 1980s, but "convicts" certainly wasn't an adequate way to describe the players on the team.
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Once finished, I jog over to our unit's kitchen area, where I wait in line to use one of two microwaves shared by 96 convicts.
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Many of the convicts affected by the order are African-Americans or Latinos, two groups that have voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates in the past.
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There, Mr. Nin learned about the Association of Community Employment Programs, a nonprofit that helps homeless people and ex-convicts get back on their feet.
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A consultant for white-collar convicts facing prison, John Webster, said someone serving a short sentence would normally be sent to a federal prison camp.
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Inmates who leave German prisons can apply their positive experience to make good choices, while American ex-convicts often resort to crime again after release.
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The state purchased the plantation in 1901, but convicts still slept in former slave cabins and worked seven days a week, cultivating sugarcane and cotton.
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Brazil's penitentiary system, the fourth largest in the world, is home to more than 620,000 convicts and is running more than 50 percent over capacity.
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Mixed-race convicts were also spared the brutality that was inflicted on less prominent prisoners, Mr. Kathrada said, though they were hardly exempt from mistreatment.
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Hot sauce maker, Small Axe Peppers, partners with more than 123 community gardens across the country that hire sexual assault victims, refugees, and ex-convicts.
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They sing along with the record, their voices layering and merging with, in this case, those of convicts doing hard labor a half-century ago.
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A Kapo was a prisoner deemed responsible for the others within the Nazi hierarchy—usually violent convicts, and often more sadistic than the guards themselves.
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In the unlikely event the Senate convicts Trump, Vice President Mike Pence would become president for the remainder of Trump's term, which ends on Jan.
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The court said Monday that the convicts failed to point out "error apparent on the face of record" in the verdict, according to the news agency.
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It was there that he interviewed, gathered information, and took photographs of convicts and their tattoos, building one of the most comprehensive archives of the phenomenon.
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Mr. DeFriest will up for release again in August only if completes the six-month practical skills course intended to help convicts avoid committing crimes again.
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Many older ex-convicts do not: more than 243% of prisoners above the age of 250 released in New York went directly to a homeless shelter.
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They recruited ex-convicts and organized inmates and became leaders in a prisoner rights movement that gained international notoriety with the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.
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The work makes an intellectually complex argument connecting the current forced labor of prison convicts, appropriated by the state, to America's historical use of slave labor.
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Carved from the ocean rock by convicts, this Newcastle attraction is a heritage-listed sea bath that lets you skip the sand and embrace the waves.
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Multiple states have passed laws to end cash bail, reduce mandatory sentences, invest in addiction and mental health treatment, and divert convicts toward alternatives to incarceration.
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The execution by firing squad of two Australians in 2015, along with six other drug convicts from several other countries, strained relations between Jakarta and Canberra.
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Two Americans are among the victims, and a US federal court in 1994 convicts Colombian Dandeny Munoz-Mosquera, an alleged assassin for the cartel, of murder.
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In 2004, he founded the Association of Former Social Convicts, which campaigns for the right of gay and transgender victims of the Franco regime to compensation.
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Lawyers and relatives of 10 convicts contacted by Reuters have all complained of abuse by the military courts while in custody and of serious procedural shortcomings.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to execute this year at least two foreign convicts, one from Nigeria and another from Zimbabwe, the attorney general said on Wednesday.
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If the Senate convicts Rousseff on Tuesday or Wednesday as expected, Temer, 13, will be sworn in to serve the rest of her term through 2018.
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He wants to borrow $100,000 to pay money he owes in child support, to help his family and to start a mentoring program for ex-convicts.
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"These convicts are all supposed to be from different places—they don't know one another at first, and they're just trying to make it," he said.
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His plan would also create an Executive Clemency Panel to review cases and a federal interagency council that would help facilitate ex-convicts' reentry into society.
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There was clearly no sudden urgency to kill convicts incarcerated in federal prison for decades; after all, it's been almost a thousand days since the inauguration.
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Wilson said the Air Force does not know if this is the only case where court-martialed convicts were not reported in the federal civilian database.
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Under the new law, relatives can forgive convicts in the case of a death sentence, but they would still have to face a mandatory life sentence.
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Researchers have found that many condemned convicts were tortured by the police into confessing, did not receive access to lawyers or were otherwise denied fair trials.
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Kenyan law allows capital punishment and convicts are regularly sentenced to death, but the sentence is almost never carried out; the last execution was in 1987.
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If the injustice of the process doesn't move you, consider this: At least one study shows that voting and civic engagement reduce recidivism among ex-convicts.
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NIS, Serbia, March 20 (Reuters) - Convicts are helping Serbia manufacture surgical masks and other protective gear following a surge in demand caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
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The United States Marshals Service does not release progress reports on the convicts-turned-informers like Mr. Barnes whom it safeguards in its witness protection program.
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Mr. Beamon, 68, was one of the first participants in a New York City program that provides subsidized apartments to ex-convicts with severe mental illness.
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After a failed experiment in isolating these radicalized convicts, they are now intermingled with the general prison population in more than half of the kingdom's penitentiaries.
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At Norgerhaven, where some prisoners can raise chickens and grow vegetables, Norwegian convicts live under the watchful eye of a Norwegian prison superintendent and Dutch guards.
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Far more common are the so-called escapes from escort, when convicts are sprung from a prison van on the way to court or between prisons.
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We follow four of these agents as they rally to each other, and see a final standoff with a group of escaped convicts who have taken hostages.
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If the Senate convicts Rousseff on Tuesday or Wednesday as expected, Temer, 75, will be sworn in to serve out the rest of her term through 13.
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Run by a handful of charismatic former convicts, the channels offer a rare window into a myth-filled world defined by trite television tropes and Hollywood screenplays.
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But one of the most pernicious aspects of the criminal justice system is how it has fallen short in allowing ex-convicts to make a fresh start.
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The restaurant's broader goal is to fight the prejudices against former convicts in the world and facilitate "rehabilitation," and the quality food is part of that process.
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One of the Air Force's law enforcement arms in that review failed to report 60 percent of the fingerprint and final disposition reports for the convicts reviewed.
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So big is the purge that the government announced last week that it would offer parole to 38,000 convicts to make room in prisons for suspected Gulenists.
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Anyway this dog movie, directed by Paul Schrader, stars Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe as ex-convicts who get involved in a scheme to kidnap a baby.
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"Banished" is set within an Australian penal colony in the 1780s, where floggings abound and guards and convicts alike are permanently coated in a layer of schmutz.
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For example, artificial intelligence is being used by law enforcement across North America to identify convicts at risk of re-offending and high-risk areas for crime.
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De Lima, a former justice minister, was last month arrested in her Senate office after being accused of accepting bribes from convicts engaged in the drug trade.
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Mr. Ali, along with Mr. Singh and several of the other convicts who were given reprieves, is still in prison on Nusakambangan Island, where Indonesia conducts executions.
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Gov. Jerry Brown of California on Friday pardoned five ex-convicts facing possible deportation, drawing criticism from President Trump and heightening continued tensions between Washington and California.
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In a correctional facility in the southern city of Nis on Friday, about 120 convicts were cutting and sewing cloth and churning out hundreds of face masks.
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It's also in our collective common sense: People who have jobs are less likely to commit crimes, and convicts who have jobs are less likely to reoffend.
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He recalled one night when the guards, "many of them very drunk," awakened the convicts, stripped them and forced them against a wall for a rough search.
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We should all worry when any court convicts bona fide journalists on trumped-up charges, and by all dependable accounts that's what happened in Myanmar this week.
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And could breakthroughs in molecular biology not be applied to artificially accelerate the aging process of incarcerated convicts, shortening their mandated sentences and saving money on prisons?
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Once believing that black convicts were merely political prisoners, Thomas worked for the Missouri Attorney General's Office and was exposed firsthand to chronic black-on-black crime.
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But convicts who have committed serious crimes such as embezzlement, taking bribes, endangering national security and so on will not be covered by the amnesty, Xinhua added.
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In his desperation, Marte said, he started ConBody, a fitness program that uses other former convicts as trainers and is based in Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship store.
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I call it the "Cain Effect," as in the Biblical villain Cain, who after God convicts him of murdering his brother Abel, he immediately demands God's special protection.
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On the anniversary of his death, we asked some high-profile convicts, legends in their own right, why Tupac remains a gangster icon 20 years after his death.
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But some researchers think it's even higher — informal estimates claim as many as half of released convicts failed to find jobs or stayed out of the labor force.
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Then his girlfriend (now wife) suggested he go and listen to Jon Ponder, an armed robber-turned-preacher, who teaches ex-convicts to take responsibility for their lives.
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Future reforms, he said, should take steps to move ex-convicts into higher-skill work, such as easing licensing rules in jobs that bar people with criminal records.
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The FBI's national genetic database, for example, includes DNA from federal convicts and arrestees who haven't been convicted, law experts Natalie Ram and Michael Seringhaus explain in Slate.
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Brazil's Supreme Court in 2016 ruled that convicts could be jailed after a first appeal, but is due to revisit that decision in April and may reverse it.
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ProPublica reported, for example, that an algorithm used to to predict the likelihood of convicts committing future crime tends to tag black folks as higher risk than whites.
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Troops and police officers are on the hunt for suspected militants and escaped convicts from the jailbreak that the terrorists conducted at the beginning of their bloody campaign.
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Asking taxpayers to clothe, house, feed, guard and provide healthcare to the nearly 750 convicts currently on death row will clearly cost more money than fixing the system.
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When Kelly asked how the convicts were able to hide the sounds of their escape, Alig pointed out that music was often blaring in the prison until 6AM.
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It's generally pretty ordinary middle-class Americans who benefit from licensing cartels by using prior felony convictions to exclude ex-convicts from substantial portions of the labor market.
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A special state's attorney filed charges — dozens against the convicts, none against the state police or the corrections officers who tortured inmates after the uprising was put down.
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This year, the French authorities introduced a program in at least five prisons that placed selected extremists and terrorism convicts in separate blocks, usually involving groups of 20.
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Clad in the blue and white pyjamas worn by convicts, he was already attending a lesson in law under the auspices of a scheme backed by London University.
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Chief security minister Wiranto told reporters that all 155 convicted terrorists who were involved had surrendered after a police "ambush" forced the last 10 convicts to give up.
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But the outrage over Turner's short sentence certainly makes his case more public — and perhaps exacerbates the "collateral consequences" of a criminal record that ex-convicts typically face.
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Minutes before they were to be executed, on July 29, Mr. Ali and nine other convicts were given a reprieve, for reasons the government has yet to explain.
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Such concerns have been raised about the cases against some of the convicts spared last month — and some who were executed, including the Nigerian, Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke.
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During the nighttime tour, the compound is broken into six haunted areas, from prison cells to an infirmary filled with demons and convicts lurking for maximum chilling effects.
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"They (convicts) could not wait to demonstrate they could be useful and ... in a way atone for whatever they are in there for," Carevic told Reuters in Belgrade.
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Ex-convicts tend to have very low educational attainment, and they tend to be young and nonwhite, with low incomes — all factors that correlate with a low turnout.
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In the South, these laws spread during Reconstruction, in response to black citizens' getting the vote, at the same time as Black Codes created many more black convicts.
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Even more disturbing than one of the crimes described — and the near-constant background howls — is the convicts' willingness to bare their souls for the nosing-around camera.
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Likewise, Alabama, which had denied rights for the vague offense of "moral turpitude," redefined the meaning of the term, reportedly making thousands of former convicts eligible to vote.
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It shone a spotlight on the bizarre, the perverted, the grotesque, and the marginalized; comics by schizophrenics, convicts, and homeless people all made their way into its pages.
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He told them that it was a gypsy mark, but actually it was a mark convicts had used in federal state prisons back in the 50s and 60s.
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Kerobokan has housed a number of well-known foreign drug convicts, including Australian Schappelle Corby, whose 12-1/2-year sentence for marijuana smuggling got huge media attention.
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A recently-emerged militant group called the Hasm Movement later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for death sentences handed out to thousands of convicts.
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In addition to commuting the sentences of 2,655 men and 92 women, Kenyatta also signed pardon warrants to release 102 long-term serving convicts, the presidential State House said.
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I conceded that it could be an elective therapeutic treatment for men who acknowledged they were sexually compulsive and destructive, but compulsory castration would be appropriate only for convicts.
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Zeyar Lin said the poorest prisoners had no such option, and some resorted to offering sex or other services to wealthy convicts or the stick-holders to seek protection.
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Cosby, who is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004, faces 30 years in prison if the jury in Norristown, Pennsylvania, convicts him.
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In an interview with Broadly, Anosova talked about her work, how she gained the trust of the female prisoners, and her desire to expose society's prejudice towards ex-convicts.
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Kim has been fighting for prison reform, and in September she met with President Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform and clemency for non-violent convicts.
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Jerry Brown, a Democrat, throughout much of his time in office – but the president was especially critical after Brown pardoned 56 convicted felons, including five ex-convicts facing deportation.
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Lawyers for all 16 convicts contended their clients had been tried in secret, without access to legal counsel of their choice, and that their confessions had been recorded illegally.
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The law does not allow convicts to receive actual money, but they can transfer it to their families via their bank accounts or use it while on special leave.
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" For many terrorism convicts, a stop before the gallows is a spot on Iraqi state television, as participants in a reality show called "In the Grip of the Law.
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Kuczynski said if Congress passed a law to allow older convicts, including the elder Fujimori, to complete their sentences at home, he would sign it if he became president.
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The Air Force never reported those details to the FBI, even though the Pentagon requires convicts like Kelley to be added to a federal database for gun-background checks.
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Prosecutors argue that could open the door for Lula and other convicts to ask the top court to annul their sentences and send their cases to dedicated electoral courts.
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If the Senate convicts her in a final vote expected in mid-August, Rousseff will be definitively removed from office and Temer will serve out her term through 2018.
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The French government also continued its campaign to fight homegrown jihadists, announced plans to isolate radical convicts in jail, and released anti-extremism videos to dissuade would-be militants.
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Convicts with lesser sentences will be released earlier — something that would help ease overcrowding at prisons and eventually eliminate the need for the prison system as we know it.
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I thought the script was hilarious when I read it, but I had a similar experience on "High Life" [a space drama about convicts sent to a black hole].
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Mr. Vance pushed for years to expand New York State's DNA database to force all convicts to submit samples, a requirement the State Legislature enacted into law in 2012.
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Melentiev spent three years in a settlement near the Arctic Circle, where convicts were building the White Sea Canal, the first of Stalin's construction projects realized with gulag labor.
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The series becomes a kind of scholarly buddy-cop tale, Tench, serving as skeptic and human-language interpreter as they crisscross the country interviewing cops and convicts for research.
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Under Republican Governor Rick Perry, Texas in 2003 mandated probation instead of prison time for low-level drug offenses, and later allowed courts to divert convicts away from prison.
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Arkansas plans to execute two inmates tonight, which would make it the first U.S. state in 17 years to put a pair of convicts to death on the same day.
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Scott, who has defended the now-former process and is against the ballot measure, said it would make it too easy for undeserving ex-convicts to regain their voting rights.
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On the day that at least 60 migrants, most of them Tunisians, drowned trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa, Mr Salvini claimed Tunisia "often and willingly exports convicts".
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This year's production, at the Nottingham Playhouse, is "Our Country's Good" by Timberlake Wertenbaker, about a group of convicts rehearsing a play in the newly established penal colony of Australia.
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The pair found many participants by searching for convicts who continually sell portrait work online as a way to make money, with sales largely facilitated by their family or friends.
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While presented as measures to help former convicts from being rearrested and put back in prison, some of the "potential applications" of AI listed in the document are disturbingly invasive.
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A U.S. Justice Department study found strong evidence of disparities in sentencing white and black convicts, but could not clearly determine whether race itself was a factor in those decisions.
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The ex-convicts were given South Korean citizenship, but to this day some are required to report who they meet and what they talk about to police every two months.
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He instantly created a diplomatic row with Tunisia by claiming the African nation, a key security ally in the Mediterranean, "isn't exporting gentlemen, it seems more often they're exporting convicts".
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And given the new administration about to take office, there are serious questions as to whether any convicts will be accorded clemency, and if they are, who they will be.
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The way he told it, convicts and officers alike walk around with their head on a swivel just waiting for the next vicious fight, stabbing, riot, or killing to happen.
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Although Ms Rousseff is suspended from office, she clings onto the presidential sash until the upper chamber actually convicts her for the dodgy government accounting of which she stands accused.
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Lawyers for all of the convicts have asked a federal court in Little Rock to block the executions, arguing the state's rush to the death chamber was unconstitutional and reckless.
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The ruling, which allows convicts to exhaust their appeal options before being locked up, could benefit dozens of high-profile prisoners, among them Lula, jailed last year for taking bribes.
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Improving our system of job training and retraining, bolstering vocational and technical education and working harder to help ex-convicts into the world of work all require long-term solutions.
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New Delhi (CNN)The Supreme Court rejected the petition for clemency filed by three of the convicts in the infamous gang rape that took place in New Delhi in 2012.
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Under the new law, relatives can still forgive convicts if they have been sentenced to death, but the convict would still have to face, at minimum, a mandatory life sentence.
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"Historically, straw was cheap and easy to transport, so it was worked by nuns in convents, mariners on long sea journeys, or convicts with time on their hands," she said.
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Convicts are imprisoned in an alternate reality with its own code of ethics and notions of justice that mirror our own, but it is a skewed version of our world.
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In some prisons, especially those where defendants are awaiting trial or where short-term convicts are detained, overcrowding has become critical, with occupation rates reaching 200 percent in several cases.
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The justice ministry said its proposal could benefit up to 12,0003 convicts who until now have not taken part in the programme, under which prisoners are kept under electronic supervision.
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Originally settled by Aboriginals 40,000 years ago, it became notorious when a British penal colony was established in 1803; eventually, almost half of Australia-bound English convicts were sent there.
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Ross Island is one of the 572 islands that make up the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, once owned by the British and home to thousands of convicts and political prisoners.
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Brazil's existing four federal maximum security prisons - which have not seen rioting - are close to overflowing as more and more convicts are being sent from state prisons following the riots.
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Sessions also supports civil asset forfeiture, which allows cops to keep convicts' money and property for themselves, wrote Bill Piper, senior director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance.
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The justice ministry said its proposal could benefit up to 12,0003 convicts who until now have not taken part in the programme, under which prisoners are kept under electronic supervision.
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And young deportable immigrants were the most overrepresented in Arizona's prisons: Deportable immigrants "between 213 and 213 make up 133% of the total population and 213% of convicts," Lott wrote.
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These convicts prided themselves as they explained in detail what I should expect once I stepped onto the "Blue Bird" that would take me to my final destination, which was prison.
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Reuters TV Reuters gets a rare look into one of Japan's aging prisons - where convicts serving life sentences are losing their mobility, and their confidence to re-enter the outside world.
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First designed for felony convicts, the database rapidly expanded when the FBI began sourcing images from passport photos and driver's licenses, with most people never knowing their faces are being indexed.
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He attested he didn't know the meat contained contraband; however, the meat in itself was illegal for prisoners to have, as convicts at Clinton Correction are prohibited from cooking their cells.
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As the number of convicts in America has fallen since 2008, in most states the female prison population has either continued to grow or declined more slowly than the male population.
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Mitchell also made calls, asking about rental cabins in Vermont where the convicts could go after their escape, but once they realized the rentals were too expensive they decided on Mexico.
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In addition to helping employers find candidates (they're currently paying the company $250 when they hire a candidate),it's also in the best interest of municipalities for convicts to get jobs.
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If the Senate convicts Rousseff on Tuesday or Wednesday, as is widely expected, interim leader Michel Temer will be sworn in to serve out the rest of her term through 2018.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama shortened the prison sentences for 102 convicts serving time for drug-related offenses in his latest round of commutations, the White House said on Thursday.
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It added that he also plans to propose ways to increase the speed of evidence disclosure in trials and to help former convicts find jobs when they get out of prison.
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Kim Kardashian's West is helping convicts who were just trying to make a living selling drugs ... at least that's the way a former drug kingpin who served hard time sees it.
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Still, in July, he was one of 14 convicts, most of them foreigners, who were taken to the prison island of Nusakambangan off Java's southern coast to be put to death.
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If they truly plan to address the root causes of the drug war, it will require buy-in from across the country: governors, mayors, ministers, bureaucrats, NGOs, activists, victims, and convicts.
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Sure, Gucci Mane has arguably released some of his best work from inside the pen, but for normal convicts it's pretty difficult to make music, especially when you're in a band.
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" Speaking of migrants from Tunisia, he said that the migrants weren't fleeing "wars, epidemics, famines or pestilence" and that the country "isn't exporting gentlemen, it seems more often they're exporting convicts.
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The Department of Homeland Security said it notified the State Department that the governments of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone had denied or unreasonably delayed accepting the return of convicts.
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Typically, convicts will follow a normal process, filing certain papers, letters, forms and petitions to the Office of the Pardon Attorney before the request is brought before the President for consideration.
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Off-Center revives this 21948 musical, with book and lyrics by María Irene Fornés and music by Al Carmines, about two convicts who escape prison for a tour of the city.
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Mr Duterte dismissed the director-general of the Bureau of Corrections, called for a special prosecutor to investigate the debacle and instructed the convicts in question to report back to prison.
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If the jury convicts the defendant on a death-eligible charge, then the trial proceeds to the second phase, at which the same jury decides whether to impose a death sentence.
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"It's like this, the day we have a difference with our brother, that's the day our brother turns into a history-sheeter, a Naxalite," referring to ex-convicts and Maoist insurgents.
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Currently, for example, ex-convicts and the long-term unemployed face fearsome barriers to getting a new job that wouldn't necessarily be a problem for a newly minted high school graduate.
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