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In the United States and Canada, intermittent confinement or weekend jail is an alternative sentence in which a defendant is required to report to a correctional facility for multiple short periods of incarceration, usually during the weekend. This type of sentence allows a defendant to maintain employment and family relationships while ...
Crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–220 (text)) was an Act of Congress that was signed into federal law by United States President Barack Obama on August 3, 2010, that reduces the disparity between the amount of crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to trigger certain federal criminal penalties from a 100:1 weight ratio to an 18:1 weight ratio [1] and eliminated the ...
At sentencing, the judge may sentence an offender to home detention where they would otherwise receive a short-term prison sentence (i.e. two years or less). Home detention sentences range from 14 days and 12 months; offenders are confined to their approved residence 24 hours a day and may only leave with the permission of their probation officer.
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In his complaint, Diggs alleges he consumed the illegal drugs that he smuggled into the jail after a corrections officer entered the cell he shared with Octavius Davis on Jan. 16, 2023 because of ...
Alina Feas is one of nearly 4,000 convicted felons who may be headed back to federal prison after spending the past year in home confinement. According to the New York Times, the Biden ...
Maximum prison term upon supervised release revocation [14] Special assessment [15] [note 4] Felony A Life imprisonment (or death in certain cases of murder, treason, espionage or mass trafficking of drugs) $250,000: 1-5 years: 5 years: 5 years: $100 B 25 years or more: $250,000: 5 years: 3 years: $100 C More than 10 years and less than 25 ...
School is almost out and according to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, children under 12 shouldn’t be left at home alone.. Parents could be accused of neglectful ...