Of those, some 8,000 people a day, or over 20,000 a year, are imprisoned in mandatory detention, meaning they will never be given a bond hearing, where they would have a chance to argue for release on bail prior to the end of their deportation cases.
The Cubans arrested Trujillo in November 1995, on espionage charges, meaning he's been imprisoned for the last 19 years.
A president can also show mercy to imprisoned felons by granting a commutation, meaning that the sentence being served is reduced in whole or in part.
The exhibition title, "D'Carts Blanche and New Paintings," hints at the big meaning: we are imprisoned by an all-pervasive Cartesian grid, a vast, technological web wherein our most soulfully expressive gestures are like the struggles of captured flies.
In this respect, he said that the constitutional sleuth is much like the classical musician who strives to "search for and lay bare the meaning that is imprisoned in the little black dots which weave their way across the music staves".
But she also imposed four years of "backup time," meaning Granados-Vasquez could be imprisoned for that duration if he got back into trouble.
That ruling held that constitutional due process applies at Guantánamo, meaning the government could not simply imprison someone there indefinitely with no explanation.
But making sex-selective abortion a serious crime – meaning that vulnerable women will be arrested, imprisoned and ultimately blamed for the pressures exerted upon them – is, at best, a bad idea.
"One of the things about Guantánamo is that it is so isolating for the people who are imprisoned there that just getting the story out had meaning in and of itself".
Caroline Starmer, 28, was told that she avoided being imprisoned "by a whisker" as she was given an eight month suspended sentence, meaning that if she violates conditions in the next two years she will serve the time.
