Sentence examples for huge prison sentences from inspiring English sources

That's no longer the case, however, as in spite of laws like the Whistleblowers Protection Act (WPA) of 1989 the retaliation against recent whistleblowers has primarily focused on threats of huge prison sentences, and in an era of secret laws and secret courts, those threats have more force now than in the past.

Much is being made of Brazilian threats of huge fines and prison sentences against executives of Chevron, an American oil company, after a small leak of oil off the coast.

Mr. Correa's confrontations with the news media were cast into stark relief last month with the prison sentences and huge fines that Ecuador's top court reaffirmed in the Universo lawsuit, which the president filed, using a criminal defamation statute that has been condemned by human rights advocates as a harsh curb on free speech.

He condemned the adverts as part of an "odious licensing campaign", which gave the impression it was able to "snoop on every household in the country" and threatening a huge fine or prison sentence, the Daily Express reported today.

The vast majority receive long prison sentences.

At home, ferocious "mandatory sentencing" laws are the main reason for the country's huge prison population.

The prison sentences were suspended.

Streicher served two prison sentences.

The defendants all received long prison sentences.

Thousands had served prison sentences in America.

Hundreds were given long prison sentences.