At their trial, the judge convicted and sentenced them each to one year imprisonment, but suspended their sentences on the condition that the couple leaves the state of Virginia for a period of 25 years.
Habeas corpus, the legal means to test one's imprisonment in court, was abolished by President Bush and Congress.
There's no question that, in her books, the house is a deeply ambiguous symbol — a place of warmth and security and also one of imprisonment and catastrophe.
Fugitive New York real estate heir Robert Durst pleaded guilty in Louisiana on Wednesday to a weapons charge and has agreed to a sentence of seven years and one month imprisonment.
Aggravated felonies are offenses that can result in punishment of greater than one year imprisonment.
It was not uncommon for Mr. Thompson's office to seek one year imprisonment for fare-beating, an offense overwhelmingly enforced in communities of color.
In short, "the modern logic of the U.S. correctional system can be summed in one word: imprisonment," though, "the new logic becomes a leading force in the very same problem we are trying to solve: crime".
At their trial, the judge convicted and sentenced them to one-year imprisonment with a suspended sentence on the condition that the couple leave the state of Virginia for a period of 25 years.
On a personal level, he experienced social isolation as a homosexual in an increasingly boorish, intolerant society: on one occasion he narrowly escaped imprisonment after a dawn raid.
He was charged with several counts of attempted murder and unlawful imprisonment, one count of sex abuse and one count of robbery stemming from the theft of $2 from one of the women.
