Sentence examples for convicts like from inspiring English sources

This includes former convicts like Bruce Reilly, now a law student in New Orleans.

After all, convicts – like hackers – develop their own codes and ethics, and they are constantly finding ways to scam and exploit cracks in the system.

Mr. Glasgow opened a soup kitchen, held church services under a white tent and began to help former convicts like Anna Reynolds, a recovering addict, regain the right to vote — a process often made onerous by the moral-turpitude clause.

But convicts like Syed, who have not succeeded in those direct appeals, must petition the special appeals court to hear their case, a process similar to how US supreme court cases are chosen.

The black bandanna, a symbol of peace, has been wrapped around Mr. Avila's conscience ever since he left Rikers Island in December 1999 and checked into Abraham House, a residential alternative to prison that provides new hope for former convicts like himself, as well as for the families of inmates who need counseling.

The country's new appetite for executions has raised concerns that convicts like Sandiford, who was found guilty in 2013 for trafficking 4.8kg of cocaine to Bali, are unlikely to have their appeals granted.

We'd be at the dinner table, and, convict-like, out of one side of my mouth, I'd whisper to my sister Amy.

There's a perception that Australians are more or less barely-evolved from drunken convicts who like to get into fist fights, and that's why we can't be trusted to stay out late drinking.

"Am I going to be working with, like, convicts and, like, prisoner people?" she asks her assistant, who is driving her to clean up the graffiti in poor neighborhoods.

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.

Even in this booming economy, jobs for teenagers and for ex-convicts like Melvin Farmer, 43, are hard to find in the inner city, despite being so crucial in stopping the violence, many people here said.