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He was given 17 64 year sentences and 8 24 year sentences totalling 1,256 years. Given another 10-year sentence. [58] Sentenced to 6 years in 2003 for the bank robbery before. Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi 2007 1,243 years Spain: Perpetrators of the 1995 Vallecas bombing. They were expected to serve a maximum sentence of 30 years.
In 2016, 6.1 million individuals were disenfranchised on account of a conviction, 2.47% of voting-age citizens. As of October 2020, it was estimated that 5.1 million voting-age US citizens were disenfranchised for the 2020 presidential election on account of a felony conviction, 1 in 44 citizens. [3]
The warden and eight other staff members at a Wisconsin prison face charges in the death of two inmates in what a sheriff called a mockery of the state’s obligation and vow to take good care of ...
The Guidelines are the product of the United States Sentencing Commission, which was created by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. [3] The Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities that research had indicated were prevalent in the existing sentencing system, and the guidelines reform was specifically intended to provide for determinate sentencing.
Seventeen bills aimed at addressing the conditions inside Wisconsin's prisons were introduced last year, spearheaded by Rep. Darrin Madison, D-Milwaukee, and Clancy, but none came to fruition.
The Ohio Supreme Court will again consider a case about how much leeway appeals courts have to change criminal sentences doled out by trial judges. Ohio Supreme Court to debate long criminal ...
Hope Taft, wife of Bob Taft who was the Governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007, approached the administration at Pickaway Correctional Institution in 2000 regarding the establishment of a reading room for children who visit the prison. The idea spread statewide and the room has been built in all 32 institutions that comprise the Department of ...
The Wisconsin Watch analysis does not include more than $25 million in settlements and legal fees related to allegations of abuse at Wisconsin’s only youth prison at Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake.