Sentence examples for poor convicts from inspiring English sources

The families of working-class and poor convicts often can't afford to travel a few hundred miles to visit their relatives.

From the perspective of the British, Isenberg notes, the colonies were where the "surplus poor"—convicts, debtors, and the like could go to make themselves useful.

Over 160,000 poor, poor convicts were stuffed into the hulls of tall ships and transported from the Mother Land to Australia between 1788 and 1868, during what was, by all accounts, up there as one of the least fun centuries of all time.

Among the subjects discussed was mass incarceration, and within that, the phenomenon of people, primarily black, brown and poor, wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death or to life without parole.

Dr. Sylvestre has earned avid devotion from many of the several hundred addicts and former addicts, ex-convicts, poor and uninsured whom she has treated for hepatitis C. Getting such patients help is a challenge that, if not met, could thwart the success of new hepatitis C drugs aimed at subduing the virus.

Video by Laurence MathInu-Léger In the 16th judicial district, for example, a single public defender stands by as groups of up to 50 mostly black, poor defendants are convicted of and sentenced for major felonies – all at once, all together – in a few hours or less.

In the 16th judicial district, up to 50 poor defendants are convicted and sentenced – at once – for major felonies carrying up to decades in prison, while the single public defender representing all of them struggles to present any of the facts and arguments in their separate cases.

Gore has solemnly promised that he is "not going to say a single negative thing about my opponents," leaving it to his once-removed surrogates to treat Texas as a state governed by a despot who starves its poor and fries its convicts.

Or he imagines owning a chain of small businesses -- "stores, laundromats, grocery stores, gas stations, barber shops, movie theaters" -- that would put poor people and ex-convicts to work, and eventually finance loftier goals: an appellate and investigative service for wrongfully convicted inmates, and a halfway house for convicts returning to society.

Many of the Wenatchee defendants were cleared; those who were convicted were poor and could not afford to pay for adequate defenses.

And as Mr Greenstein points out, Mr Vitter's amendment would kick "poor elderly African Americans convicted of a single crime decades ago by segregated Southern juries" off the food-stamp rolls.A similar food-stamp ban exists for people convicted of certain drug offences, unless individual states opt out of that ban.