The phrase "are often convicted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing legal matters, particularly when referring to individuals who are frequently found guilty of a crime.
Example: "In many cases, individuals who commit repeat offenses are often convicted and face harsher penalties."
Alternatives: "frequently found guilty" or "commonly sentenced".
Then again, criminal kingpins are often convicted on the testimony of morally dubious underlings.
Suspects are often convicted in trials lasting only a few hours.
It is highly unusual for a rich South Korean to give away most of his wealth in a society where wealthy fathers are often convicted of evading taxes in transferring assets to their children.
Typically, the stings initially target suspects for pure speech — comments to an informer outside a mosque, angry postings on Web sites, e-mails with radicals overseas — then woo them into relationships with informers, who are often convicted felons working in exchange for leniency, or with F.B.I. agents posing as members of Al Qaeda or other groups.
What's more, they say, these gardeners are often charged and convicted with the crimes they were forced to commit.
Only murder and attempted murder attract higher sentences than rape.As a result, juries are often unwilling to convict "date" rapists.
In response, Florida's 1868 Constitution established a legislative apportionment scheme that diminished representation from densely populated black counties and put in place a lifetime voting ban for people with criminal convictions that targeted crimes for which blacks were most often convicted like larceny, perjury and bribery.
Those who are convicted are often freed long before their formal sentence ends.
Migrants in Australia who wound up involved in crime are outcasts in their own communities who are often ex-communicated when convicted or ousted as a criminal.
Judith Goldiner, a supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society, which has represented tenants facing exclusion, said those who are barred are often not dangerous, or even convicted felons, but instead fall into the broad category of nondesirability.
Female convicts are often poor, come from broken homes, and, frequently, are victims of sexual abuse or assault prior to incarceration.
